back with me is our foreign correspondent trey in kyiv. air strikes are dropping bombs on ukraine control centers? exactly. we are getting this from an advisor to the interior minority. kyiv is being targeted with cruise and ballistic missile. rubio said this know anywhere near over. russians are targeting not only the largest cities but other cities. we are talking about millions of people. mostly civilians in the cross fire of this conflict. it s part of the reason you had so many western leaders pleading with president putin not to
laura: how significant was president xi s support for putin and xi would not push back if whatever putin wanted to do xi was fine with it. how significant is that in all of this? it is significant but i would point out that ukraine is a major trading partner with china. i would not expect president xi to be happy with this invasion. china is a major trading partner with ukraine am think about what russia benefits of taking this country of 40 plus million people. there are large businesses. enormous trading partner for china. you don t expect president xi to support an invasion of this country.
i don t think he s monitoring. i think he is sleeping. this is a terrible thing that should never have happened. i believe it was afghanistan. when the military is pulled out first and our soldiers are dying and horribly wounded. we leave 85 billion dollars worth of equipment. they are one of the biggest sellers of military equipment in the world. selling the equipment we left there. $85 million and left hostages behind. i think they said we can do this. laura: president trump the burgeoning friendship between president xi and president putin is of deep concern now to the state department which described this as a potentially
launch this invasion and you had the ukrainian president zelensky speaking russian to national tv speaking directly to president putin. this was a slow bleed. we knew it was coming. a worst case scenario that is currently taking place right now not only in the ukrainian capital but across the country. there are a variety of different angles and positions you will see. the russia forces are continuing to move. in jennifer griffin reported on this. these air strikes across the ukraine is just beginning. there will be more heavy assaults and ground troops. 200,000 russian forces have moved according to satellite images. more troops from russia are getting close to the border.
russian forces on the move from crimea to russian crossing the border into ukraine. we don t exactly where this is going or where it will end. right here, the power is still on. there are cars on the road. in eastern ukraine it s an area that vladimir putin wants to take for russia. the two separatists areas he sent troops to protect ethnic russians. earlier in a speech in russia, the ukraine president zelensky called on putin not to do this. he learned that russia was sending 200,000 troops into this country. let s listen to president zelensky. if troops attack us and someone tries to take away our country, freedom and lives, the lives of our children, we will defend ourselves. when we attack you will see our faces and not our backs.