chicago at the start of the war. this could take easily a month just to build this perimeter and start to lay siege to the city. i think there s a lot of unknowns there, the russian military advancing but at the same times the ukrainian military putting up quite a fight. hypothetically, say that does happen and they take kyiv. then what? do they move farther west? craig, one wave to look at it is what they re doing in the south. we re talking about the northern portion there. they have to take kyiv to essentially topple the government. but in the south they were more successful initially. this is that access to mariupol here that was under siege. that s that terrible maternity hospital here that they saw with missiles. they took kherson and those were the riot police redeployed. they were there and they re meeting resistance, too. they stalled out a bit and last week they went to zaporizhzhia,
falsely accusing other countries of the very violations that russia itself is perpetrating. and given that, and consistent with our previous statements, we have serious concerns that russia may be planning to use chemical or biological agents against the ukrainian people. the attempt intent behind these lies seem clear. and it is deeply troubling. we believe russia could use chemical or biological agents for assassinations. as part of a staged or false flag incident or to support tactical military operations. from the beginning, our strategy to counter russia s tactics has been to share what we know with the world transparently. and candidly, we have been right more than often. more than we d like to. we re not going to let russia get away with lying to the
there s been an idea to have corridors just to allow civilians to get out of these heavily bomb barred areas and where allies would help ukraine provide more weapons and missiles systems to secure the corridors. this is not a no-fly zone but it is limited security assistance to enable ukraine to be able to get those civilians out, which russia has been bombarding some of those core evacuation sites. coming up next, i m going to talk to a member of ukraine s parliament. he ll also tell me what else he wants to see from the united states next. wants to see from td states next.
nations will be another blow to the russian economy already suffering badly from our sanctions. this morning ukraine s president, zelenskyy. he just wrapped up a speech to the polish national assembly. this is some video from earlier but we can tell you right now president zelenskyy preparing to address the polish national assembly. he says they are good neighbors. he told his fellow ukrainians he understands their emotional exhaustion but he s pleading for patience saying even russia didn t expect the war to turn out this way. you can see the aftermath of an attack on a factory in the city of dnipro. warning that russia is actively
the world cup. they can t go to the olympics. russian people want that credibility that they once had. unfortunately they don t have it anymore. so it s squeezing them. we don t know if it will deter putin. putin doesn t use the same calculus as we do in the west. if this was a western leader knowing their people would starve and their boys would come home in body bags, we wouldn t do it. we d have the legislature and journalism against it butch he but he doesn t have the same calculus. we have to continue to squeeze and maintain a united front. a live look here, joint base andrews as we see president biden there making his way up steps of course and getting ready to hop on air force one. there s the salute and there s the president, just a few moments ago the president there at the white house announcing