russian security services, that the offensive is not going well, that some special forces, the russian pesnaps are furious because they ve been sent into battle without proper support and many have been killed. they said the national guard forces and the regular army, which includes the chechen units, the two are not coordinating, and that the plan is somewhat disjointed, that it s partly a plan for war and partly a plan for peacekeeping and so-called denazi-fication in this country that has led to the lack of cohesion. a lot of this goes back to the man who is behind it all, vladimir putin, who i m told is increasingly isolated, is just taking advice from his inner circle that there are only about three people that matter right now, and that speech, you mentioned it a short while ago that putin gave yesterday, a
welcome back to meet the press. thank you for having me on. let me start you with the last question i asked secretary blinken, can this crisis be brought to an end with putin still in power in russia? well, i think putin will try. he will drag this out as long as he can. he s committed and he s an evil tyrant and will not stop until he can form the soviet empire. the lesson in all this, when tyrants speak we should listen, and he said he would take ukraine, and he is. and china said they are going to take hong kong. they did. poland and the ballot ticks. we should believe them. and china said they are going to take taiwan next. . we should be ready for that. iran says they want to destroy israel, and every time a tyrant speaks we need to remember they told us we need to listen. you sound like somebody would be in favor of a no fly zone over ukraine right now. if putin is what you describe
this what it actually is, which is a war. with the russian economy crippled by sanctions, putin is now calling that a declaration of war. there are growing concerns that a cornered putin could lash out and widen the conflict beyond ukraine s borders. we will start with two reports from the region. kelly cobiella near the poland border, reporting on the 1.5 million ukrainians who have fled the country and first we will kick things off with richard engel who is in kyiv. a lot has happened overnight. what is the latest from your perspective? reporter: chuck, second attempt to evacuate citizens by opening up the humanitarian corridor has collapsed with both side, the russians and the ukrainians blaming the other for the breakdown. it means the people are still trapped in that city still under fire and without food, power or water.
basically just help me. i ll fight my own fight, just give me the tools to do it. and for us to hesitate or anyone to hesitate in the free world is wrong. and he said that. he says, if ukraine falls, europe may fall. where do you want to stop what does that mean for you? would you support a no fly zone? would you support doing this which could trigger a wider conflict? i understand that, but right now you don t signal to your nemesis. this is putin s war, this is not the russian people s war. this is putin s war and quests for anything it might be. but to take them off the table because we ve already used things is wrong. i would take nothing off the table, but i would be very clear we re going to support the ukranian people in every way humanly possible. zelenskyy was very clear. he said, we don t need you to fight our fight. we don t need you to fly our planes or fly your planes into our war zone. we need planes we can fly
president putin was willing to engage diplomatically to bring this aggression to a close. right now we re not seeing him. he was on the phone, president putin, with president macron of france a couple days ago, and by all accounts, according to the french, he s digging in and doubling down. and i think we have to be ready that this could go on for some while. the sheer force that russia can bring to bear, the manpower, the expanse in its military, has the potential to keep grinding down these incredibly brave and resilient ukrainians. but here s the thing. winning a battle is not winning a war. taking a city is not taking the hearts and minds of ukrainians. what we ve learned the past couple weeks is they will fight to the end for their country. if it takes a week, if it takes a month, if it takes a year. he has no plan, putin, for how this actually ends on his terms. he can t impose his will and russia s will on 45 million