their salaries in their shelters because of the curfew. the shelling is coming closer, to get basic necessities and so on. a continuing sense of dread and a continuing sense of dread and a continuing sense of dread and a continuing sense of disbelief that perhaps things could even get worse as the fighting gets closer to here because no one knows what s in the mind of vladimir putin. is he going to encircle the city even more, try to cut off all access points, deal with the communications, bring them down and then make some kind of demand of the ukrainian government? or is he going to launch an all out attack to try and take the heart of the capital here. that s the fear, that s the worry it doesn t feel at the moment despite those peace talks taking place on the border of belarus, doesn t feel as if there s
able to provide the kinds of assistance to americans who either want to leave or who get into some type of an issue in russia that they would under normal circumstances. and josh, i just want to be clear. i know that you were saying before that there was encouragement, strong encouragement to leave, the stark contrast today is to leave immediately. i know you spoke a lot about it before, is there something, a major thing that happened that prompted this change in guidance. well, we don t know exactly, but i think that the signs have been mounting that there are increasing concerns about americans in russia. most recently, there was the announcement in russia that journalists who report in a way that the russian government doesn t feel as factual could be subjected to up to 15 years in prison. we heard from the russian top diplomat, sergey lavrov today saying that law needs to be implemented, he needs to
alicia: we know the israeli prime minister is engaging in a shuttle diplomacy speaking with president putin and president zelensky, any hope they could make any difference? at this point it doesn t feel as if vladimir putin is interested in negotiations paid when he sat down for three hours yesterday. but vladimir putin today came out and said he felt the operation was a success and he was not going to stop as long as ukrainians are fighting. back to the negotiations over the last week, there have been two and putin the russians sent the former deputy minister to the meetings wearing a baseball hat while the ukrainians set as senior minister. but still get the impression that putin is serious about that yet. in a feeling he was to be a
suffering. tammy: that s the plan tore putin to have people begin to consider ways worth it. how much more death and destruction. these horrible attacks are meant to say, do you want three more months of this? at the same time there seem to be leaks of what putin might want as an exit ramp. that would be recognizing crimea as russia. and the breakaway republics as russia, no longer disputed. either a standing army but it would be neutral for ukraine, a guarantee never to join nato, et cetera. i think what the west has to work on is to give putin taken offramp so he doesn t feel that his own leadership is going to come and get rid of them in the midst of all this. and we have seen russia, action
let s bring in barbara starr. not only did admiral kirby say they don t support this transfer. he said transferring these mig 29 little increase capabilities at high risk. doesn t think fighter jets is what ta ukrainians need now any way. that appears to be the military analysis this afternoon. one that ukraine still has several squadrons of jets available to it. not clear how much they are able to fly in this contested environment they operate in with the russians but they have the air power and the u.s. doesn t feel that ukraine is going to get a significant advance in its military capability from getting more aircraft. trying to poke a hole in russia s air defense over