courageous will they may hold the city today. they may have some things that they ve got against the mayor and the population. but i m convinced the ukrainian people will be back to fight them in guerrilla groups. we ve been used to insurgencies over the last couple years with the u.s. military but this will be guerrilla warfare and it will be deadly to the russian occupier. and it is clear to everyone we spoke with that it will be that. and that there are many in ukraine who prepared for that. even those not formally in the military. they were prepared for guerrilla warfare and an insurgency that may happen here. let me ask you. when i look at this, you see a country of 44 million people. a few million have probably fled in recent days, right? i think the numbers out there underestimate the reality. you still have a huge country. these cities are full of people, even though many have left, right? and you see the russians coming in, bombing apartment buildings,
for people who have the ability to leave, that is on the top of their minds right now. these are people who may have married ukrainians who were born in ukraine. imagine someone coming here in new york and somebody trying to take away our manhattan or brooklyn and what have you and you re being told that you need to just flee because they say that s the best thing for you to do. there s a lot of national pride for anybody in the country and you heard president biden s response to president putin announcing that he declared some provinces as his. we heard that last night at the security council. how dare the russians decide they can just go into ukraine? that s the attitude you will get from people born and raise in the ukraine. they ve lived for 30 years with independence. they won t give it back to their occupier. we heard from some ukrainian who s were there who said they were willing to come out and fight.
ago that u.s. intelligence fears the capital could fall within days. ukrainian citizens are being asked to make molotov cocktails to take down the occupier. the former president of ukraine was on the streets talking to us just minutes ago. he was holding a qaa hrerb cough to fight for himself. overnight, kyiv was hit by missile fire. eye crepe s foreign minister calls it the worst attack his country has been inflicted with since the nazis invaded in 1941. the current president volodymyr zelenskyy is the number one target. number two, he says, is his family. a fighter jet was shot down over kyiv. fragments believed to hit and set fire to a home. cnn cannot independently confirm that. the ukrainian defense ministry says it blew up a bridge north of the capital city trying to
in in a military invasion. here s the problem i ve got, martha. it s easy to get in to a fight. it s hard to get out of one. so the next question ought to be in everybody s mind, senior decision makers, how do you stop this fight. how do you end it in a way that is acceptable to the west as well as for russia. russia is going to be the occupier. martha: that s a great question. i heard general keane saying he doesn t believe that president zelensky of the ukraine should be going to this munich security conference in the coming days. he said it s probably not a good idea given russia s posture for him to be out of the country. do you agree? oh, yeah. general keane was right. he leaves, he s not coming back in. if they start an invasion, there s no way he s getting back in ukraine unless it s on foot in the middle of the night. they will control all of the airspace. this is not a small flight.
city center in kyiv. it says russian reconnaissance troops have ended the northern district of the capitol and it s asking citizens to, quote, get this, make molotov cocktails and take down the occupier. it comes as ukraine s interior ministry says one of its fighter jets has been shot down over kyiv and as air raid sirens have, again, been going off around the capitol. now residents in kharkiv, ukraine, have turned a subway system into a make shift bomb shelter. clarissa ward was there speaking with frightened but determined ukrainians seeking safety. reporter: kharkiv residents scrambled to find shelter as russia s brutal assault unfolds. deep underground, scenes reminiscent of the second world war. the shock just sinking in that what was unimaginable is now reality.