patriot air defenses. i m wondering, does this show that the u.s. line about not having troops fighting in ukraine also extends to these air defenses that are on the nato side? the nato defenses will protect nato airspace. is that what this shows as well? there s not even missiles it heing missiles. there s batteries that we moved into poland and any other air defenses that we might be contributing to in poland are purely defensive in nature. defensive in nature. i won t speak for poland and that government. but for our purposes, the military capabilities that we re adding to nato s eastern flank are designed to protect and defend and deter against attacks on nato territory and that
and, bend in a bunker. we ll speak to the ukrainians for rallying the troops fighting in the streets above the. morning all. clings of genocide. a fresh attack on a residential part of the capital. a new intelligence suggests the russian advance on the company is stalling. we have plenty to update you this morning. at least four people have been killed by russian shelling on the shopping center in kyiv. the latest intelligence suggests that russia intelligence if that s got the capitol have stalled more than 25 kilometers from the center of the city. ukraine, wallace rejected the russian bad that its troops defending the besieged city of mariupol returned their weapons and leave, both ukraine s president and deputy prime minister have now accused russia of genocide.
0 empty stream and the next second chaos is erupting around you. we don t know the extent of his injuries but we re praying for him and his family that he comes back to us. sandra: we should have an update soon, we hope, from the hospital there. thanks for joining us. i m sandra smith. john: and i m john roberts. the story with martha starts right now. martha: thanks to you both. we re all praying for ben hall at this hour as john and sandra just told you. i m martha maccallum at fox headquarters in new york. right now on the story, as questions are raised about america s role in the world, putin is knocking at nato s door and president zelensky says what he said all along. and now i repeat again, if you do not close our sky, it s a matter of time before russian missiles fall on your territory, nato territory, on the homes of citizens of nato countries. martha: with that in mind, keep in mind our rivals are forcing closer ties today as china, russia and iran simultaneousl
loves seeing our troops fighting, liz cheney. how about that? reporter: in wyoming, trump throwing his support behind congresswoman liz cheney s primary opponent. hopefully, they will get rid of her with the next election. reporter: after cheney voted to impeach him and has continued to call out his dishonesty. we cannot be dragged backward by the very dangerous lies of a former president. reporter: in georgia, trump endorsing david perdue for governor as a way to get back at republican governor brian kemp for not doing enough to undermine the will of georgia voters and turn the 2020 election for trump. and your rino governor, brian kemp, who has been a complete disaster. reporter: trump, also using his endorsement to preserve his own political brand. attempting to stack the party with loyalists, even if those candidates come with controversy. in pennsylvania, trump endorsing
camps again. but i think the application of air power during all of this would have given some of the people involved some spine and might have allowed the government to hang on to kabul for a while. but if you re out there, jalalabad, and you re surrounded and you have no air cover, you re running out of ammunition, running out of food, you have no medevac capability, and you haven t been paid in months, and the taliban come along and say, just surrender and we won t do anything to you, of course you re going to surrender. the afghans lost tens of thousands of people in their army. they did fight. they fought for years and they lost tens of thousands of their troops fighting. but no one in their right mind would fight under these circumstances. so does this mean that the taliban is now going to be seen driving around in all this american-paid, heavy military equipment? maybe fighter jets or something like that? no.