wolf, you can hear from general clark there, he map of kyiv. it s between the size of chicago and los angeles. nearly 3 million people. not only the seat of government, a giant metropolitan city. the largest city in kyiv under siege. let me ask general wesley clark, what can the u.s. do and nato allies? there are 30 countries that are members of nato right now. what can, what should they be doing to save the lives of those thousands of people in ukraine who potentially the next day or two could be killed? well, that s the question. and i think we should go to the united nations. we should call on russia to do an immediate halt of its operations. we should declare a safe zone around kyiv and maybe every part of ukraine, west of the river. tell russia to halt. tell them to stop. they dont have the right to do this. as president biden said, this is
they re still feeling their way through. they have significant logistics problems with all the russians forces out there. but i don t think a call from the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff to the russians is going to be very persuasive at this point. i was told by senior u.s. official that by the way, these reports are still coming in, that the current u.s. assessment is that ukrainian forces are putting up fairly good resistance. we ll continue to watch that, because as general clark well knows, the russian forces are right around this country are formidable. please stand by. we have our clarissa ward still in a subway station in the northeastern ukrainian city of kharkiv, where civilians there sheltering from russian bombardment, artillery barrage. clarissa, we were with you earlier. what have you seen in the last half hour since we spoke? reporter: i ve never really seen a situation like this. this feels to me like scenes from world war ii and the blitz.
resistance by ukrainian forces as the russians approach the urban areas. this will be decisive in this battle. yeah, general clark, the only thing we can believe is what we re seeing on the ground there and it is a multifront assault, an invasion from the north, from the east, from the south. i m curious, in your opinion, as we have been calculating up until this date, this moment, is this the worst case scenario and how much longer do you envision this attack going on? well, it will go on until they accomplish their objective, essentially. he s not going to stop with financial sanctions. now, what i m hearing behind the scenes is that a coalition of the willing is being put together, nations who want to help sustain ukraine in this fight. they re going to have to bring in the heavy material that is required. at least right now. this is not like afghanistan. it is not an insurgency. you can t win it by sending small arms in and some stinger
missiles and javelins. this is going to require artillery, projectiles, powder, fuel, spares, replenishment, this is a major warfare that is going to happen. now, putin will use only as much as is necessary to do this. so he s trying to avoid collateral damage in the early phases because that promotes these aren t barrages against civilians, he s going after specific targets with precision strikes. as his attack gets deeper into kyiv, as resistance builds from the ukrainian side, there will be more and more civilian casualties and disruption. this is a real challenge for zelenskyy s government to organize its defenses in these urban areas. general clark, let me ask you, you re describing significant significant increase in western natuo military support to ukraine, bringing in heavy materiel, it
ill illegal. and the sanctions are putin are great. but i remember being in the balkans and what that hardship was. and you do, too, i m sure. where slaughter went on for years. 200,000 people were killed and finally the united states stopped it. we have to stop this. formernato supreme allied commander, wesley clark, thank you. there s more breaking news that just coming in. president biden now preparing to take very dramatic new steps to turn up the direct pressure on vladimir putin. she took new mucinex instasoothe sore throat lozenges. show your sore throat who s boss. new mucinex inststasoothe. works in seconds, lasts for hours. i strip on public transit. i strip with the guys. i strip all by myself. breathe right strips open your nose for relief you can feel right away, helping you take in air more easily, day or night.