dana: meanwhile residents of kyiv are bracing themselves for that 40 mile long russian military convoy outside the capital. press secretary john kirby putting the potential danger in stark terms. watch here. i don t have perfect visibility on the convoys. assessment it was meant to help resupply and still stalled and stuck. i can t rule out there aren t combat vehicles. a very long convoy. we don t know we can t even say it s all one convoy and not several. it does remain our best assessment it is remains stalled. dana: the convoy had been moving at a snail s pace before it stalled. you ll hear more from john kirby when he joins us live next hour. bill: i want to show you on the map behind me the northern part of the country the story of the day. the town along the russian border one of the evacuation routes they agreed upon. went back on their word and going back and forth. today we believe some of these buses have left this town
these missile strikes in zhytomyr, west of kyiv, on the main road that people here would have taken, those who have come from kyiv or kharkiv, no permission troops taking that place yet but it is on the main road where many of these refugees would have taken. ., ~ where many of these refugees would have taken. ., ,, , ., ., ., we have the defence secretary coming up we have the defence secretary coming up on the programme, ben wallace, 7:30am. plenty of questions to put to him about what is happening in ukraine, current tactics. brute to him about what is happening in ukraine, current tactics. ukraine, current tactics. we are t in: to ukraine, current tactics. we are trying to paint ukraine, current tactics. we are trying to paint a ukraine, current tactics. we are trying to paint a picture - ukraine, current tactics. we are trying to paint a picture of - ukraine, current tactics. we are trying to paint a picture of the l trying to paint a picture of the whole conflict this mornin
point in their in their war. what is the latest, john, that you can tell us about the stalled russian military convoy that stretches for miles and miles and miles just outside of kyiv the ukrainian capital? how much longer can the ukrainian capital actually hold out? i want to be careful here we don t speculate about timelines. i tell you ukrainians are fighting hard for that city and they have done a good job keeping the main advance by the russians outside of it. as of this morning, we still assessed that advance of the russian forces were still about 25 kilometers from the city s center. but they are trying to close in and they are still close enough as we have seen with devastating effect, they are still close enough to bombard it with missiles and rocket strikes and that is happening. so, they are still outside the city, but we still believe that their intent is to try to encircle kyiv and ultimately occupy it. the russian president vladimir putin, today, said the war in
themselves to staying in lviv or they re in lviv only because they have to be because they ve maybe made several attempts to get out towards poland already and it s failed. it s difficult if you re traveling with elderly people, traveling with small children. you can only wait outside in the cold reasonably so long. the mayor of lviv says his city has essentially reached its capacity to help. he says 440 schools and other cultural buildings are being used to house and feed people on top of 85 churches and other religious buildings. he says he needs help from international aid organizations, they need food, water, bullet proof vests and they need foreign volunteers to administer all of the aid. scott mcclain, thank you very much. the pentagon says that large russian military convoy outside of kyiv is still stalled but
with sally nugent and dan walker. let s get up to date with everything that has been happening overnight in ukraine. james reynolds is here to run through the details. and i know this is a place you know well? i and i know this is a place you know well? ii and i know this is a place you know well? :: . well? i went there in 2014. that, for ukrainians, well? i went there in 2014. that, for ukrainians, was well? i went there in 2014. that, for ukrainians, was the - well? i went there in 2014. that, | for ukrainians, was the beginning well? i went there in 2014. that, i for ukrainians, was the beginning of this conflict for ukrainians, was the beginning of this conflict with russia. i don t this conflict with russia. idon t think this conflict with russia. i don t think anyone imagined it would get to this think anyone imagined it would get to this particular state. this is the state of ukraine six days into the invasion. you can see the areas occupied by russia here in the sou