seven days without giving up any major cities, and right now obviously putin is super upset and super nervous. that s why we are receiving more and more air force attacks and why we are asking for more and more protection and the only one protection that needs right now is the no fly zone over ukraine from our nato allies. i know it sounds complicated but i m asking our partners to bend the rules a little bit and make sure that ukraine is able to standstill and win in this war. john: kira, it s john roberts again. i think you know as well as every leader of every nato nation knows that if nato were to try to enforce a no fly zone over ukraine, that would put american and nato jets in direct conflict with russia and that could lead to world war iii, not a good situation. in terms of the situation in kyiv, the convoy of russian
russian aircraft. sandra: ukraine says the fight is ongoing. john: in the capital of kyiv, buildings reduced to rubble, and officials warn stalling could simply be strategy. sandra: zelenskyy defiant. this is beyond humanity. such missile strike means for many russians kyiv is absolute foreign, they know nothing about our capital, our history. they have orders to erase our history, our country and all of us. john: amid the shots, strikes and shelling, humanitarian crisis is unfolding. hundreds of thousands have escaped ukraine. women and children leaving behind loved ones, and babies
at how we got here, we point to the state of the union speech in which the president said this about the situation in ukraine with russia. he thought the west and nato would not respond. he thought he could divide us at home in this chamber and this nation. he thought he could divide us in europe as well. but putin was wrong. we are ready. john: this idea that we are ready, i think critics might say it s open for debate. no question. when you think about where we were in 2014, the last time putin decided to invade ukraine, we have the same failed leadership from president biden as we had in 2014. what the russians understand is power. we did not see this under president trump and now seeing it again. what do those two have in common, 2014 and 2022, weak
might be able to stop russia there so they don t threaten nato. john: reports for the end game for vladimir putin is take over the country, break the back of the army and reinstall victor yankovich, who was ousted in 2014. and one says putin cannot install a puppet and leave him there. russia needs to permanently station tens of thousands of troops in ukraine to control it. ukrainians did quick out leaders twice, 2004 and 2014. if putin tried to put a puppet regime in there, obviously they would rebel against it and would he need to leave tens of thousands of troops in there. putin has gotten a lot more than he bargained for. he has used too few troops for the objectives he tried to achieve and if he thinks he s going to install a puppet regime, there s no way.
russian defense ministry releasing casualty figures. 498 russian soldiers killed, 1500 wounded. u.s. intelligence thinks it could be four times higher. british intelligence says five ukrainian cities are surrounded. russian says they captured a strategic port city. u.s. officials dispute that saying it s contested. and also battling for kharkiv, the second largest city in the northeast. a target for some of the 450 missiles russian forces have fired into the country since the start of the war. ukraine s top diplomat urging the west to send more weapons and not just the javelins and stingers. he wants bombs now, a sign the jets don t have enough bombs to bomb the big russian convoys. we are about an hour from curfew, people rushing home through another night of uncertainty and fear. john. john: lucas tomlinson in