his part, he s been putting out these videos vowing to defend his country. they be gone viral. roman, what do you make of his go ahead. president zelenskyy, was offered to leave kyiv but he refused, he and his family, his children. they are as an example they re staying in ukraine with ukrainian nation. so this is extreme, extreme showcase of bravery of people s willingness to give everything for their freedom, for their pursuit of democracy, for everything they re dreaming for centuries. they just want to be free, and this is a very basic desire. they want to have their independence. do you think, roman, that he has been effective in raising the morale of ukrainians? do you think that is part of why we re seeing so much of this will to fight, so much defiance among the ukrainians against the russians? i think that president
correspondents are is an area that s relatively safe. there have been air raid sirens but no attacks in that particular area. so what we could see let s do it on this map so people can see. this area right here, john, this is the dnipro river. one of the possible russian scenarios is that they take everything east of here, so that would include of course the donbas region plus everything up through kyiv. it is possible that they ll move a little bit further west to here, but that is a natural dividing line right there. and this is cynical. i just want to bring up these evacuation corridors proposed. some came out of sumy today, some, some. but the russians have proposed these evacuation corridors. if you want to leave kyiv, you can go to belarus. if you want to leave kharkiv or sumy, you can go to russia. if you want to leave mariupol, you can go to russia. you re asking people whose country is under attack to move
continue this battle as long as it takes. harris: so trey, it s harris, it is interesting to hear you talk about what now could look like urban warfare. there are advantages for the ukrainians, because they simply know the landscape better. i interviewed a woman last hour, natosha. she has had to leave kyiv, which she is doing as she is crowdfunding. they are ordering walkie-talkies a night vision goggles. that sort of thing that will help in an urban warfare and getting it to the city of kyiv right now. there are still some ways to get things in. which is really remarkable. but when you hear of syrian rebels who know how to do this well, and potent tasking that part of his physical arsenal. and we hear about those chechen terrorists coming as well, those are people that we know fight those urban battles in a very different way. absolutely.
leave kyiv right now? it s hard to leave kyiv. it was home to over 3 million people. the russians are stationed in the northwest suburbs of kyiv. they re occupied. there is also a humanitarian ka at catastrophe there with people trying to flee once those cities were once prosperous suburbs of kyiv. so people understand that russians are close. they re trying to flee and obviously, we see traffic jams to western ukraine and some people tell me that it took them three days to travel from kyiv to a safe heaven in western ukraine. as of now, you re in a safer location but you re still in a country at war. as you report on the shelling
zelenskyy is refusing to leave kyiv, despite reporting he s the number one target. telling forces the fight is here, i need ammunition, not a ride. that was his response when the u.s. offered to evacuate him. now, president zelenskyy also sent out this rallying cry a bit earlier this morning. listen to this. translator: good morning, ukrainians. currently there are a lot of games appearing on the internet, that i am asking our army to put down arms and evacuate. so, i am here. we are not putting down arms. we will be defending our country because our weapon is truth. and our truth is that this is our land, our country, our children, and we will defend all of this. that is it. that is all i wanted to tell you, glory to ukraine. the russians are denying much of what s happening. and much of what you re seeing. the ministry of defense says russia is not targeting civilian infrastructure. its media watchdog is threatening russian news outlets