second year. we have fox team coverage. peter doocy at the white house with what the president is doing right now about the emerging threat posed by the chinese. first up though, correspondent trey yingst in kyiv tonight on a solemn anniversary. trey, you have been there since the beginning. good evening. bret, good evening. as ukraine marks one year since the russian invasion, heavy fighting is expected in the coming months and officials in kyiv are calling for more support. president volodymyr zelenskyy presents a medal to ukrainian soldier at a ceremony in the capital of kyiv. the war time leader is commemorating the one year mark of the russian invasion. may this be proudly are proclaimed everywhere. ukraine is alive. this time last year ukraine s western allies called on zelenskyy to evacuate as russian troops closed in. he famously responded i need ammunition, not a ride. what was going through your mind the night the russians invaded? what was in my mind? i
where can you fly your way out. some say as the war drags on putin is losing face with the those who support them. oligarchs who had their yachts and property in the west confiscated reportedly lost $95 billion collectively in 2022. but putin doesn t want to hear their complaints. many are say would he go don t understand how well-informed he really is putin looks like someone who doesn t know what he is doing. a long war for the putin regime in my opinion will be fatal. with time, experts say, western sanction also really start to bite. russia is already seeing growing budget deficits this year as energy prices go down and military spending goes up. the downward spiral of russia s economy with its vast reserves may not be rapid but it is expected to be steady. and many of its brightest minds have already fled the country. bret? bret: amy, thank you. up next, a friday lightning
bret: so, with that, let s bring in our panel byron york, chief political correspondent of the washington examiner. marie harf former states person under president obama and welcome josh rogin of the washington post. you know, josh, you wrote a piece for the post saying the biden administration is wrong. time is not on ukraine s side. as long as it takes is the message that they re sending and you just heard that from president biden and abc saying two or three years. that s not what they want here. if the war goes on lots of year even if they win it they won t be a country, economy, sphrismt refugees won t want to come home. they need to win this year. they need stuff to do it. president biden is totally wrong. a clear rationale for the jets. what they want to do, they said they want attack the enemy raider so that they can advance in their counteroffensive. that s a clear rationale as it can be. but, we think in the white house that we know better than the
but they have lost a sense of normalcy and something that should be offered to people around the world. and it really is hell on earth for the ukrainian people as they try to simply survive and the russian invasion continues. bret? bret: all right, trey yingst there for a year. trey, thank you very much. we will look at the war s effects on russia and its people a bit later in the show. as mentioned, president biden is dedicating another $2 billion in aid to ukraine. he is also adding new sanctions against russia and he is sending a clear message to china. white house correspondent peter doocy has that part of the story tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. good evening, bret. just a few minutes ago we saw president biden from the first time he got back from eastern europe. i had a chance to ask him about this potential china and russia alliance. china, starts arming russia in ukraine, what are you going to do? notify if they announcement ahead of time?
bent over backwards to make ordinary russians feel that life goes on as if there is no war sure western like mcdonald s are gone but much 6 russia s heartland hadn t acquired the taste and there are russian replacements. for what they are worth polls show three quarters of russians support the war. 80% support putin. most russians when asked to participate in polls refuse so the real level of support is an educated guess. there is no such thing as support in a non-free society. protest is put down even today russians just laying flowers at the grave of a ukraine poet were led away by police. it seems most russians just accept the situation but experts say the regime won t be able to protect the population from the horrors of war indefinitely. it is not the military dictatorship. suddenly decided to enter one of the very fee spheres of reality