emotional. and they just want to desperately get out of here. and you can understand why emotions are running so, so high right now, john. mr. scott mclean, just really tragic images there. several hundred thousand ukrainians have already left the country, as we can see right before you. thousands more trying to get out. this is the western city of lviv, where it s just a short drive over the border into po poland. people go back and forth all the time. you can see now how difficult the last leg of the journey is. people still desperately trying to make it. thank you so much for your reporting. russia s vladimir putin facing pushback from many of his own people, as nearly 6,000 have been detained for participating in anti-war protests across russia. joining me now to discuss a the chief of staff to jailed russian opposition leader alexei navalny. sir, thank you so much for being with us today. i m just wondering what you
chancellor from germany to show up and say, if you step one foot, one russian boot comes into nato countries, we will be prepared to defend and we will mess you up. and this is the kinds of things that we need to be doing to make sure we have the back of our nato allies as well as help ukraine. do you think there is a u.s. presence on the ground in ukraine? is that possible? is it possible? it s possible. i m not aware of that presence. i don t think we should be afraid if there is. imagine what the ukrainians could be doing if we gave them more equipment over the last couple years since they were invaded back in 2014. folks sometimes forget the ukrainians pushed the russians back in 2014 when the russians tried to go to the capital of kyiv. imagine if we spent the last seven, eight years supporting the ukrainians with all the equipment and needs that they
ammunition boxes on the ground. there s unexploded grenades, like pineapple grenades everywhere. a real scene of devastation along this bridge. according to the local ukrainian military i ve been speaking to, there may be as many as 10 let me look. this is almost a cliche. obviously somebody has brought a memento from home. and now it s scorched and lying with the debris of in this case the failed attack. look, there s evidence i don t want to show you too much, but there is a body there. that s a russian soldier lying there dead on this bridge. as his column was attempted to drive in had been thwarted. ukrainian soldiers who i ve been speaking to the last couple of hours are absolutely enthused by this victory they say they ve scored.
they have proven the fact that they can operate in small unit tactics. they have weapons. we know they have anti-tank weapons in the form of javelin. this is video. this is from the eye drain yann defense ministry. they have the one from turkey they have been using. javelin is very effective, shoulder fired. optically guided infrared. so when you shoot it, you can move. that means the archer or shooter, much harder to target them. so you can go back and do it again. there is some success they are having around the country. nevertheless, the russians still have this advantage in numbers. we saw this satellite imagery. this column is three miles long. we re told that it s supplies, maybe troops incident to show people if i can exactly where
setbacks in mikeykolaiv and kharkiv. how surprised are you at the success the ukrainians are having? . i m not surprised. i m inspired resistance, the help that our own government has been able to give to them in a short period of time. i m inspired by the sanctions imposed on russia go anything i thought was possible in such a short period of time. i m also worried. if putin is frustrated, he becomes more ruthless. and he has not yet unleashed on cities in ukraine, including kyiv, the full force of the army that he has assembled. . you know he put his nuclear deterrence force on high alert. you say you re worried. are you worried that i m more worried now about what artillery can do to