Transcripts for CNN Don Lemon Tonight 20220226 04:25:15 archive.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from archive.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is critical in the fight to keep ukraine. kyiv is under siege. what do we know about the russian attacks? how much danger is kyiv in right now? kyiv certainly is in great danger. what s working to the ukrainian advantage is most importantly the fact that the invasion into the vicinity of kyiv and the rest of the country is starting to bog down. what works to the ukrainian advantage is that they can get inside the necessity for the russian forces to achieve speed. what putin was hoping to have was within 24, maybe 36 hours, maybe two days was to have kyiv under his control in some capacity. he s not there. it s getting close, but he s not there. if it takes additional time, they then become exposed. now, in the vicinity of kyiv you re never going to see anything that looks like that, where it s just going to be completely surrounded by forces. what s going to happen primarily
wind. but it is bursts. it s fits and starts. and so there was a lull for around 45 minutes to an hour. and then it comes back up again quickly. so there s really no predicting. and then it s really coming from all different directions. as we said at the top of the show, you know, the closest explosions we have heard yet, just around three miles away, near a military base, we should point out. the russians appear for now to be targeting military installations, military forces. there is real concern, however, that if alex? i ve got to get to the top of the hour and we re going to have you back on the other side, i want to reset. why don t you stand by, alex marquardt, reporting there from kyiv. we ve heard some gunfire, we re told. they re trying to get a handle on exactly what it was, trace-arounds, we re told. we re about to go to break. we heard from alex s location,
Transcripts for CNN Don Lemon Tonight 20220226 03:42:30 archive.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from archive.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
and there s also this, it is eyewitness video also in kyiv. that is in ukraine s capital city, many explosions in multiple parts of the city. ukraine says heavy fighting is under way in an eastern suburb of kyiv. the fighting getting closer and closer to the city center from multiple directions. we ve got it all covered for you. let s get right to cnn s alex marquardt in kyiv, kaitlan collins at the white house, orrin leiberman at the pentagon. explosions heard tonight in kyiv and heavy fighting south of the capital. this comes as ukraine s president says the fate of ukraine is being decided right now. russian forces are advancing. give us the latest there, please, sir. don, clear evidence that the