the ukrainians who they argue and say are really the culprits here. so, again, mirror image. kaitlan, you said you had a conversation with the president last week. you asked him a couple of questions, he answered. but as russian troops get closer to kyiv, talk to me more about the conversation president biden is having with zelenskyy? i think they re really worried, because, yes, we re talking about the resistance you re seeing ukrainian fighters put up against the russians. but they do know they have ultimately their sights set on kyiv and taking the government there. and clarissa ward talked about this david and goliath comparison. and president biden did speak to president zelenskyy today. it was a call that lasted about 40 minutes. you saw afterwards they talked about strengthening sanctions,
i m wolf blitzer. thanks very much for joining us. please join me tomorrow for a special two hour saturday edition of the situation room. that begins live at 5:00 p.m. eastern. our breaking news coverage continues right now with don lemon tonight. thank you, wolf. we ll be watching tomorrow. this is don lemon tonight. our breaking news, ukraine s capitol city is in the cross hairs tonight, and what s happening there right now is more dangerous, more dire than it has ever been. explosions seen and heard tonight in parts of kyiv itself.
we are told what you re hearing is gunfire. we re going to get our correspondent alex marquardt up in a minute, and i ll let him explain what s going on. but i m getting you can hear it? as we get alex up i ll keep talking here. south of kyiv, saying there s heavy fighting in the streets. our alex marquardt is there getting ready to do a live shot to explain what is going on. we were preparing to go to break and all of a sudden we heard our correspondents there s some sort of activity going on, not necessarily explosions but gunfire we re told in the streets surrounding kyiv, the capital city. also in the town south of kyiv
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trains in kyiv, destruction in that city. it must seem unbelievable for people to see and experience this. reporter: it s especially unbelievable, don, because this is such a radical change. we have talked so often about the remarkable calm that ukrainians maintained in the lead-up to this invasion. and now, as you can see right there, this has changed dramatically. ukrainians trying to get out. those special evacuation trains that left on friday, trying to get some 10,000 people out of the city. people are heading to the west, towards poland. there are fears, the biden administration has predicted that there could be hundreds of thousands if not more refugees really resulting in a refugee crisis. don, in talking to people, in the lead-up to this invasion, what many of them would tell you is that they are ready to stand