trace: a surprise as you look at these pictures of kyiv, it could take hours to get outside the city. are you surprised there has not been another explosion in the kyiv, the capital city, for the better part by our count of an hour, an hour i have? what s the pause? what s next? i would have expected that, that s happy after what i expected. what putin wants to do is take out the military aspect. that s why they talk about cervical strikes, because they don t have any. they truly are related with the slavic heritage and all that. nobody wants to kill innocent people by any stretch. he just wants to preserve the security and take out the military capacity so he can then make his own guarantees on his
russia s ability to launch clues missiles, ballistic missiles, and airplanes and helicopters. there are reports coming across the wire that we are hearing right now is that ukrainians have shot down five russian jets and helicopter. here president zelenskyy is asking for nato military help and that s a very big step. that seems to be what he s asking for. starting for the anti-putin correlation. i think you are on the right path. we appreciate it. in the meantime we ve been showing you these powerful images of thousands of people fleeing ukraine as russia draws closer to the capital city of kyiv. good morning to you again. good morning. can you imagine those people in those cars they are? they are terrified, trying to flee bombing. yet they are absolutely stuck. they are trying to get out to
the kyiv airport. if the ukrainians are able to hold off the russians and inflict a blood he knows have at least a victory there and booger up russian plan so to speak, that may give part to european leaders and may cause some problems internally in russia. it remains to be seen. the next few hours, the effectiveness of the initial onslaught is going to really tell us the story of the ark of this conflict. trace: you talk about the next few hours being critical and how long does it last? are we talking about the next few hours going into the next few weeks, or the next few hours going into the next several days? what s the timeline on when people feel like there might be some light at the end of this ukrainian-russian tunnel? there isn t any light in the very near future. if, in fact, the ukrainians are able to mount something of a defense in the russian initial strikes were not as effective as
outside the borders. look. first and foremost, we have to acknowledge the ukrainians by and large have been incredibly courageous in the face of unimaginable threats. and that i think is the real story here. president zelenskyy first and foremost really providing his countrymen the example. for that matter, the west an example of how you stand up to president putin. people are scared after having seen the attacks overnight and i think it is not surprising you see folks heading into their cars, heading to the west. obviously that is playing out right now on the streets of kyiv and elsewhere. let s not lose sight of the fact that ukrainians have demonstrated an incredible resolve and resilience.
the russians would like, and the ukrainians fought them off at least in some places, they bought them some some breathing room, then you are looking at more potentially of a protracted struggle. higher russian casualties. that will buck up western will, so to speak, and that ll make it possible if the west desires to bring in more defensive armament. if, in fact, the russians are more successful in neutralizing and basically decapitating the ukrainian military and neutralizing it and rolled right into kyiv whether it s an airlift operation at the airport which is ongoing right now there is conflict and shooting in and around the airport and that s really the hinge point here. if the russians are to settle here, you could see this being over and moscow installing a very friendly, family to moscow, regime in kyiv. trace: i think anyone in these meetings tomorrow, you talk about the e.u., i wonder if