bill: military mothers in mother russia say their sons are being used as cannon fodder. president putin tries to ease concerns in a televised address yesterday but it appears not everyone is buying it. david lee miller has more on the story. what did you learn? the russian president is coming under increasing pressure to justify the invasion of ukraine to his own people. only days ago according to a widely circulated report a group of women confronted a regional governor and told him we were all deceived. they accused putin s regime of sending their sons to their deaths. it is not clear what extent ordinary russians were aware of that confrontation but yesterday president putin in the televised address had a message for the women of his country. i want to address the mothers, wives, sisters,
to vladimir putin and the best thing that ever happened to iran and the best thing that ever happened to venezuela. last week they sent officials to venezuela saying they want to buy oil from maduro. they want to buy oil from iran and biden last year waived sanctions on the nord stream 2 national pipeline which caused the invasion of ukraine. their policy makes no sense. bill: yesterday the president said defending freedom is going to cost. i get it. how about get creative? how about using the microphone to find new ways and create i m looking at a story about the mission coming out of poland. i m not a military guy. i don t know why i have to go to ramstein. put them on a flatbed truck and drive them across the border at nighttime. that would put them in the
150,000 troops, michael, is that you can t occupy the country but you might be able to destroy it. is that a strategy? it is not a good one. at the beginning of this you know what? we all worried how far would putin be able to roll west and would he threaten nato? because of the determined resistance of the ukrainians you see he is having trouble even taking a major city, much less rolling west. really this givings argument to why we need to give more arms to the ukrainians. we want the russians to be stopped there so that they don t threaten nato later. dana: what about china? we know they signed this big statement of their great friendship that putin delayed the invasion until after the olympics at president xi s request but today you even had the c.i.a. director saying that china has refused to condemn it but basically saying they didn t expect russia to have such difficulties. we re picking up that china is annoyed at russia. what they wanted out of this
suffering from the current invasion. remember the international red cross is the group outside of mariupol, that town i described for you, people inside that city said it is medieval times and doing operations without anesthesia for a week. they need everything to survive. dana: alex s point what the refugee agencies are saying about being safe in this time to prevent even further tragedy and trauma through possible human traffickers. that s really important. we should get that on the air more to make sure people understand that and get that to their social media feeds as well. fox news alert here. fears of a radiation leak after a power line to the chernobyl nuclear power plant was knocked out. our live coverage of the war on ukraine continues plus premature twin boys born in kyiv the day after putin s army invasion. thanks to project dynamo there is hope. preemie babies are scary in
care about the things i care about. the issue of gas prices will be one of them. a lot of them will say this is putin price increase. bill: we know it was going up substantially before. dana: it will go up more. a lot to talk about and more to talk about within the house caucus. bill: allegedly working to destabilize the u.s. energy sector weeks before the invasion. stunning details. dana will have it for you. dana: vice president harris is scheduled to meet with ukraine refugees as part of her trip to poland. bill: putin s army ratcheting up the war in ukraine despite a growing number of his own soldiers saying their president misled them into war. president biden: ukraine will never be a victory for putin. he may be able to take a city but he will never be able to hold a country. 100% of your home s value and get up to $60,000 or more.