here we are day five, not a major city has fallen to the russians. i have been to kyiv. it s a beautiful city. it was the center of the revolution that brought democracy to ukraine. kyiv is the latter of this. it s remarkable to see the lands of freedom essentially understood assault again. first of all, it s day five, it s three days longer than anybody thought they would last. the fact that belarusian forces have been brought there is interesting. they are brothers and sisters. i don t think the average russian for belarusian wants to be fighting ukrainians. it s not in their heart to do that. i can t imagine that this was the plan. bringing in belarusian forces was part of the plan.
i just want to ask you, your parents are still there, you have to be concerned about them. how are they doing, and what is their plan? they don t plan to move out of kyiv so basically every night they are moving to the bomb shelter in their apartment building so they don t need to walk so it s a little bit of a challenge for my father because a week ago he broke his leg and he cannot move quickly but they are fine, they are smiling and cheering up and the atmosphere here is very supportive everywhere each region
column is not gonna make it into kyiv but they re gonna find stiff resistance. what we ve seen over the last few days is that the ukraine military has done what they have to do which is they have to be able to fall back in an organized manner from an active defense into a guerrilla war. they haven t had to fall back into guerrilla war because there active defense is still working but if they can pull off that transition they will bleed the russians out. we appreciate you joining us this morning and providing some expertise. thank you. families are being separated as ukrainians tried to flee to safety. we will talk to a concerned father who is trying to get safety, next.
in kharkiv. and down here in odessa. should putin get control of that, he would have a large swath and that would be strategically difficult for the ukrainians. you can see it s all about kyiv. we have been waiting for a big push of russian troops. a large part of the russian military up here, just about roughly 30 kilometers north of kyiv. when that push comes that will be very difficult for the city and the capital of kyiv. that where we are very worried we ll see the same urban violent bloody street fighting that we saw in kharkiv. one last thing, if i can, that is the concern of the south. this is the city in the southern part.
talk to us about this column of russian vehicles headed toward kyiv. once that arrival occurs, how did the dynamic change? how does the calculus change for the ukrainian military and followed by the ukrainian people that have done everything they can to push back. president zielinski, i think he recognizes what i m talking about, right here. if the southern part falls it could be like a house of cards , like dominoes falling because russian forces could move up and there s nothing his forces can do, however brave, they don t have the capacity to stand up to so much armor. they have their biggest cards yet to play. what sets point to tell you when it comes time to fight for the capital city, if these negotiations don t yield fruit and if belarus joins from the