i ll be his complete doppelganger. igor you have to find positivity in everything. i have to ask you this. i mean, we have military analysts on who just sort of look at the tanks versus the tanks and the troops versus the troops and the weapons versus the weapons, and they say, you are so outmatched. david vs. goliath. but here you are, hunkered down with your very young family. your nanny has lost some of her family members and you have this ability to try to make me laugh, to end your interview with us with some optimism. what is that? where does that come from? i would say that s ukraine. that s what ukrainians are like. i m probably not an exception, but look, two kind of main things i want to stress here. first of all, the serious note. look, ukraine, during the revolution of dignity, eight years ago, you had hundreds of
hunkered down with her family in her grandmother s home. earlier this morning we talked to her how she s coping and the difficulty of explaining this crisis to her young children. my oldest child is 7 years old, so, yes, she understands everything. she s, you know, worried all the time. she wakes up at night. for the first couple of days we stayed at my grandma s house. they were bombed everywhere. like this area was very, very terrible situation over there. so we heard everything. so she was like terrified. but my middle child, she s 4 years old. she doesn t understand. she thinks like it s a game, you know. i m talking to her like she needs to be she needs to listen to me and all this stuff, but she s like running around, and it s okay because i don t want her to be in stress all the time. my youngest son, he s 1 year s old.
pariah the rest of his life. john: no question about that. do you think this could take him down and if so, what s to stop him burning the house down around him if he goes down? i think if putin miscalculates further, if he were to order a chemical weapons attack, some in the russian military will say we were not even on board with the idea from the get-go and certainly don t want to take it to this level. that s one scenario. second scenario is some of the old k.g.b. click he used to run around with is down in st. petersburg, they could decide you know what, the boss is not there anymore, we may need to move on to a different type of situation. john: in terms of miscalculation, andre, basically the chief of staff for volodymyr zelenskyy, hunkered in the
activity, a lot more strikes in the south and southwest of the city and so the fear is as you said, that the plan may be to lay siege to the entire capital of kyiv. keep in mind this is a city of 2.9 million people and if they are successfully able to cut off there s one road in particular, the e-40 which is kind of a mainline artery from the far western and relatively safe city of lviv to kyiv, if they re able to cut that off, the situation here in kyiv will dramatically deteriorate, it will become much harder to move supplies in, to move food stuffs in, much more difficult to move out civilians. you mentioned mariupol in the southeast, that is a desperate situation today, the international red cross saying they have not been able to open up that humanitarian convoy to allow some 200,000 desperate civilians who have been hunkered down under heavy fighting with no power, no heat.
days now, we all think that an invasion or an offense at least is imminent, and it just remains to be seen how long until that finally starts. but the people of ukraine are buoyed by the success they ve had, by the gains they ve made and by the ability to hold back the ukrainian forces the russian forces, rather. but also by the leadership. the leadership of president zelenskyy. what we saw today was quite remarkable. he s been hunkered down here, continuing to do daily media appearances, walking across the city today on foot to visit soldiers who had been wounded and to give them medals. he has single-handedly galvanized the support of the people here and kept a real sense of the fight alive. many people saying that without him this would not have been possible, he really has become a symbol of fight for freedom in this country. and i want to briefly touch on the death of brent renaud today the, of course, a tragic story that we ll continue covering. 50 years old from new york, an