leave kyiv, to leave to their friends. it took them two days to do. now they are in western ukraine. carley: they are in a safer spot, that must make you feel better, right? it feels me a little bit better, i am nervous of the situation and my dad can t leave the country because he is the age restriction and can t leave the country at all and my friend s dad is stuck on the border because of that. carley: what do you make of the ceasefire russia announced? they say they will hold fire so ukrainians can get out of hard-hit areas. do you trust them? trust them at all. during the meetings with ukraine and russia, they still continued fireing and bombing, i don t
become less dependent. poland and lithuania have started getting their oil from australia. let s get the rest of europe off of russian oil. harris: ambassador, great to have you here in new york. thank you for being here. fox news alert now. showing the aftermath of an attack on the outskirts of the ukraine capital. they are getting closer and a path of destruction with the 40 mile long convoy. russian forces have bombed a roadblock leading to kyiv from the east. we re watching the military trucks and buildings destroyed as healthcare workers sift through what is left looking for anybody they can possibly save. the injured were taken to the district hospital and we ll bring you new images as we get them. again great to have the ambassador here today. a lot going on. some americans don t believe the state of the union is strong. far from it. border is not secure,
president zelenskyy is inspiring ukrainians and really people all around he world as russia attacks his country. he s refusing to leave kyiv so far, but officials tell cnn the u.s. and europe have been talking about how tay would support a government in exile still led by zelenskyy if he had to flee. the member of the ukrainian parliament joins us now. thanks for taking the time. president zelenskyy has become this international symbol of ukrainian resistance, right? but as russian fighters close in, does it make sense for zelenskyy to stay put still, or should he evacuate and maybe govern from the safety of another country? what do you think? i m sure that is not the choice he is considering. he s 100% staying put, and, quite frankly, i think that putin s life is in more danger than that of zelenskyy. putin is definitely not adequate. i think that he is mental he has some sort of mental problems
please make sure that you do the work that needs to be done and what is stipulated by the greatness of your country. zelenskyy has remained defiant in his decision not to leave kyiv amid an exodus that the u.n. says totals more than 2 million ukrainians who have fled the country, and they ve done so in less than two weeks. it s about 1 out of every 20 civilians in that country. meanwhile, russia s advance towards kyiv still appears to be stalled with nearly all russian troops that had been amassed at the border now inside ukraine. u.s. intelligence agencies say between 2,000 and 4,000 russian soldiers have already been killed since the full-scale invasion, by way, between 2,000 and 4,000. amid those losses facing russia, u.s. officials warn they re in a worldwide assessment if vut season still determined to control ukraine and is perhaps willing to pay any price to do it.
zelensky government leave kyiv and move to the far west to lviv in the far west of ukraine government in exile, and then run and resistance. much like charles de gaulle did in france in 1940, in the 1940s. we need to facilitate that. arm it, train it, the quid it, make it a very difficult move on the part of putin. there s diplomacy, economics, military response here. all of that can be, i hope, sufficient to deter putin from further conquest in ukraine. let s put that map of ukraine again. i want to ask you something. there is this theory that these are independent with a lot of russian speakers who require the protection of the russians. but there s a lot of reporting about the fact that they re looking to take the government out in kyiv. we were talking about the fact that they might move zelensky