zelenskyy yesterday calling the russians terrorists. this is outright terror, blatant terror from experienced terrorists. more families have begun fleeing the capital of kyiv. the mayor saying the population with now less than half its original size it has taken far longer than expected for an assault on the capital to begin. but everything suggests that now finally russia has everything in place to started. and families who once had been seeking the shelter of the capital city for safety, they are now avoiding it. we think we here afraid to go to the kyiv. we try my family tried to europe. i will be there with the guys in ukraine. i hope we will be. win. meeting today to revoke russia s favored nation status that effectively means they can put more sanctions, more tariffs on russia. as we have been saying all along
to the border and meet some of these people that we are trying to help that we are sending aid to. hug them. get to know them. find out their stories. have a press conference there on the border but she didn t do that we were talking during that soundbite. look at some of the great leaders, look at churchill who refused to leave when the nazis were trying to invade. he goes out on the streets and every single day he was seen, he would come out of his bunker, look at zelenskyy. he stayed in kyiv. he didn t take his family and money and get to safety, even though we were trying to help him. he wanted to stay with his people. even princess diana, do you know why everyone loved her, one with the people go. and hold sick children. she was one with them. as a leader, it s not about having a press conference and a fancy dinner with the president and getting back on your plane. it s about going to the border and seeing and hearing these stories. all right, coming up, eyes in the sky. ukrainian
over the past four months we have not hesitated to make public information available to us. it has been now more than four months since we ve started sounding the alarm about what president putin had in mind. and that intelligence of course has been bourn out. if, in fact, russian forces do intentionally target civilians, there will be massive profound consequences for war crimes, for atrocities, for human rights abuses. ned price, a appreciate your time. thank you. thank you so much. coming up, i ll be joined live by an american couple who were caught in kyiv with their newborn daughter when the war began. but their greatest danger may not have come until they reached the border. they take us through their amazing escape. that s next. what you ll nee, and helplp you build a flexiblele plan for cash flw designed to last. so you can go from saving. to living.
a resupply convoy, anderson. but i think the important part is it s stalled. it stopped. we don t know why it stopped. it could be maintenance. it could be part of the plan. but we re talking we ve been using these maps for the last couple of weeks. and i personally don t like them all that much because this big blob of red, it takes up a whole lot of terrain. this is 200 miles from excuse me, 200 miles from the border down to kyiv, a city of 3 million people. you ve got an airport about 20 miles outside of it. we think that s where mr. putin is putting his russian indirect fire weapons systems, artillery pieces, rockets, to have standoff capability to attack into the city. what kaitlan was just talking about before, mr. putin is not attacking infrastructure. he is attacking ukrainian citizens, civilians, schools, hospitals, apartment buildings.
we want to stay alive. did is the united states willing to make a specific allocation for ukrainian refugees? [laughter] this would be humorous if it weren t so dangerous. we have this person who is just a heart beat away from the presidency. hitting new 40-year high president putin s invasion having impact. doesn t matter what says the public feels the truth because they live the truth. brian: we have a lot to cover we begin with a fox news alert. overnight airstrikes as you hear slamming central and western ukraine as the russian offense continues and expands to a degree. multiple casualties are being reported as ukraine, again, is accusing the cream lineal of targeting civilians. pete: benjamin hall joins us live from kyiv with more on the russian assault. benjamin? yeah. pete, brian, and ainsley, good morning. yes in the background we heard a very large bang. we do expect, again, we said