regime change. it s a change regime, the decapitate this regime. the russian forces are going to have to come here to kyiv. that s what we are waiting for, that s what we expect. trace: as you look at the screen, live pictures, 10:04 a.m., coming west out of kyiv, it s bumper-to-bumper. looks like it ll come take a really long time to get these people to where they are going. we aren t saying all of them are fleeing but certainly some of them are and i wonder if you know, i don t know, i don t want to pin you in on this. if you know there are any policies in places like poland on what they would do, they would allow these people to come in, are they allowing refugees to come across the border, do we know any of that and has that been talked about? it has been talked about in multiple bordering nations be preparations underway to receive refugees and of course estimates of the amount of refugees if
failed to deter vladimir putin from launching a bloody campaign to seize ukraine on his own. it s an ever escalating conflict and efforts of diplomacy by the international community has failed so far to resolve. the coming hour, will be joined by our team of fox news correspondence. we have lucas tomlinson and steve harrigan on the ground in ukraine. kevin corke is standing by in washington with reaction from our nation s political leaders. we will get all of them. in the meantime, president zelenskyy and the ukrainian parliament, well. let s go back to steve harrigan whose life for us on the ground in kyiv. this is a city now declared by the government to be under martial law. they are telling people to stay in their homes. if you take a look at what s going on, not everyone is listening to that. some people are out and driving. other people are huddled in the subway. there were bombings in the
it s now midnight here in los angeles, 10:00 in the morning in kyiv. dark morning for people there and around the world. for months we were told that what was yet to come as nearly 200,000 russian forces massed along ukraine s southern border. u.s. intelligence provided a virtual play-by-play of how russia would advance. today, that intelligence proved to be spot on. it began last week with preliminary operations in separatist regions of ukraine. yesterday came the predicted cyber attack. then explosions as russia targeted ukraine s militaries and airfields from all sides. successful defense hits on russian military vehicles and warplanes. president biden is expected to unveil what the white house describes as severe new sanctions against russia. but so far, threats indeed have
people saying they didn t want this. they wanted the life they are living where they are successful and now their lives are going to be changed in ways that are dramatic beer with us now retired u.s. army colonel great to see you again. i look at lucas tomlinson and he is saying, well, they think of lviv is a safe haven, 4-5 hours outside of kyiv. they think it s a safe haven and you wonder is any place right now in your estimation safe inside ukraine? here is one of the things, the physical limitations here. all the things we said that president biden told us, and this department, approximately 200,000 russian troops that were surrounding the area. that s not enough troops to even closely to take over the whole of ukraine. so they can t be going on to all these cities, just to give you an idea. they sent 60,000 into grozny a
in 1995 which is only 27,000. it would take almost all the troops they ve had just for the one city and they aren t going to do that. if you are going to knock out some of the communications and radar systems, which apparently they ve already done, they are going to bypass the cities to knock out the actual field armies, and then if they want to turn back to the cities, they have a chance to do that with almost nobody to defend them. trace: what i hear you saying, you think that this might be a fair fight then a lot of people give the ukrainians credit for? i don t think it s a fair fight. i don t think they have the capacity to defend. that s why even after this war is started, i m still a strong advocate that they need to make a negotiated settlement to end this as quickly as possible. the authorities in kyiv, because they cannot win. they don t have the military capacity. they have big heart, they can fight hard, but if they fight