years old. you look at these images, benjamin, some of these cities that have been attacked and just rubble. looks like what 9/11 looked like in downtown new york. except these are entire cities that are wiped out. hospitals wiped out. we interview people who said i was just walking by that hospital when i visited my mom in mariupol and then the next images this hospital that is bombed and trenches and people walking out with blood all over them. these pictures are so devastating and then we know these troops are coming to the town where you are. kyiv. they want to be in the capital. they want to overtake the capital because of the symbolism there and how important that city is we see all these beautiful buildings behind you and pray to god that those are not attacked. it looks like the president, zelenskyy, is very optimistic. listen to this lady she is crying. that is outside of the hospital, holding her baby. but she is alive. thank goodness. but, benjamin, the president zelenskyy i
should you be worried if you are in kyiv this weekend? well, what s happened now for the first time is we do have combat forces on the outskirts of kyiv on the west side which will be an access to encircle the city from the west and also on the east side, northern east side circle the city on the east side as well. so, that is a first. they are consolidating now. they have taken some losses as you have been pointing out here and certainly on the videoed is very graphic to that case. but, yes, they will begin their offensive at some point in the next couple of days to try to attempt to encircle the city, brian. they will put their artillery in position and they will hammer the city before they put troops in to that city. they are still trying to seek a capitulation from zelenskyy before they move combat troops into that city. and they will use civilian casualties and destruction to
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brian, ainsley, pete? brian: on the kyiv, any indication these units have experience in urban fighting that they will get out of their armor and actually go block to block? have they done that before besides blowing up a hospital on foot? do you think this is requesting to be a first for them it seems? on the contrary. every time they have had to have any face-to-face fighting so far in country, they have failed miserably, which is why we have seen the extent of bombings, bombardment and shelling. look, there have been many questions about how motivated they are. about who they are. many are are 18-year-old conscript. that s why ukrainians feel so optimistic head-to-head battle. many ukrainians have had experience. many spent two years at a time there they are battle-experienced whereas many of these russians are not. their army has been largely
or hunting rifles saying i have shot animals i can shoot russians. every single person here will fight that s why they have stayed. if it does come down to that brutal street to street like stalin grad. that s what people are telling us. we have not seen russian troops move into city. not likely to see a big ground invasion of kyiv to start with it will start off with shelling. how long for we don t know. we talk about russian troops moving. in that move into occupation phase one we always said we don t believe that the russians can win. that would bleed them dry. the death toll would i see radio. huge, huge cost for them. whether or not they do that eventually we don t know. perhaps their intention is to flatten the cities. you talk about rebuilding and yes there is no doubt that will happen if and when this war ends but that seems a long way off right now. we need to see what state they are left in when the clouds settle. pete: benjamin, i think about everyone in kyiv but yourself.