becoming more desperate. i mean, i think i think the real fear has to do with what will come in the future really actually. i think people are terrified by the fact that we know what putin is capable of. we ve seen what he has done to civilians in the past. and i think that s the real fear because you have people, women and children, women and sick children, living in the base basements of hospitals. we have people living in subway stations for a week now. and it s not like the bombing is happening constantly. it s not like the impacts are happening all the time. but it s enough to instill fear in the population. yeah, i spoke to a woman in kyiv today, who had been in a bomb shelter mostly since thursday of last week. she went home briefly today with her kids. she thought her kids were going to want to stay home. but they said they didn t want
tell us the nearest units are just nine miles from the city center. people are already feeling putin price hikes at the pump. won t take blame for the sky high gas prices. using this crisis to take accountability off themselves all while pushing green energy. pete: we begin this hour with a fox news alert. russian president vladimir putin is meeting with the bella rugs president lukashenko. the talks come after putin sending fighters from the middle east and elsewhere recruiting them to join the kremlinens offensive. brian: the people don t want it and that leader is sunged to to what vladimir putin wants. meanwhile airstrikes slamming central and western ukraine as the u.s. offense widens. ainsley: benjamin hall joins us live from kyiv with the latest. benjamin? ainsley, brian, pete good morning. yes, president putin also saying today that he thought there had been positive movements forward in the diplomatic front and
nuclear but if the regime s survival is at stake and i don t think we re there yet. before we let you go, former director james clapper said at some point we ll have a confrontation with russia, it s not a question, it is a question of when. do you agree? i agree completely. you know, this is a war with nato. russia sees itself as at war with nato and the battle in ukraine is only the phase of that. so the united states and nato, i think, need to figure out when and how they re going to engage in the conflict with russia. apparently, we don t want to do it right now, but i think we should begin to have a presence in ukraine. wow. that would be quite a development, indeed. brigadier general kevin ryan, thank you for joining us. thank you. ahead, you ll hear from a man in kyiv who s joined the fight against the russians.
so, what do they do? anderson, it s a great point. i want to just back track for a second about the convoy. try to imagine a column of 30 to 40 miles, several hundred vehicles bumper to bumper, which is not tactical, lined up in there. you have drivers, co-drivers, you have several now russian troops, many of them conscripts, draftees, who are freezing their tails off out there. and they re look at the ground around. this is a yield terrain for ukrainian, not just military, but citizens armed with small arms and rpg-type of antitank so, this is a real this is a world class mess up for the russians and they re trying to unravel. and it has affected their push on kyiv. now, kyiv very simply, they have
see indications of that here on our side of the border as well. with some of the forces that are coming out. actually hanging their flak vests into the windows of their trucks. the bullet proof vests they would normally wear on their bodies which could be an indication they might be taking sniper fire from inside the kharkiv zone. from our vantage point, we see troop movement and ominous signs there could be difficulties as well, anderson. fred pleitgen, appreciate it. given what appears to be growing ferocity of russian attacks, but the resistance by ukrainians, and the growing and unified pressure on vladimir putin and economy from western allies, there s a lot to talk about with our next getss before getting into saber rattling, retired army general wesley clark. general clark, you ve heard the latest reporting from here in ukraine. i m wondering what you can tell about russian tactics and where this attack around kyiv or in