underestimating the damage that was caused in that fighting that took place. we went through that area with the ukrainian special police forces and we barely saw any buildings that seemed untouched to us. there were a lot that had tank rounds or artillery shots through them, whole buildings that were burned down. this is of course a really important district where the russians tried to enter kyiv from here, it s a suburb. you can see on the video we re showing there s some destroyed russian military vehicles, some tanks. we saw a lot of those. some of the residents we spoke to said they think that the russians didn t believe there would be this kind of resistance in that area. a lot of the residents there stood up and actually took up arms. some of them fled but some did take up arms and fight against the russians. they believe that s a big reason why they were able to turn things around in that place. but widespread destruction, and i think unfortunately, jake, they are still going to
approaching the front northeast of kyiv are the lines of villagers waiting for humanitarian handouts. they d receive a bag of bread and basics to get them through these difficult days. the first week of the war a shell hit us near the greenhouse. we barely survived, says this woman. we had help from strangers around us. they gave us bread and canned food. we wouldn t have managed otherwise. no one here knows when this war will ending or whether russia still has designs on kyiv. the front line is about a mile away. for now, an uneasy calm prevails, ever since the ukrainian defenders stopped the russian advance here. it was february 28th, they say, day four of the war. they want to show us how they did it. but first we have to clambor over the bridge they downed to see the armored column they managed to take out. the river bank is littered with their skeletons. this was a turkey shoot.
or climate change, covid, crime. so obviously this is, a, one of the reasons why biden s approval ratings are so low. are there signs of anybody in the united states changing their spending behaviors because of this inflation? yes, yes, and yes. you re starting to see people pulling back. you re starting to see prices you basically have these incredible forces in the economy at the moment. you ve got the fed starting to raise interest rates, that will go much higher. you ve got the government, the administration clearly worried about inflation and having to put pressure through things like the spr. you ve got consumers not so much worried about jobs anymore, but they are worried about spending power. how high can it go? what purchases should i either make now or put off to the future? and you ve got the prospect of
itself. but what we do see is difficulty that the russians are also having with logistics. they didn t plan for this war to continue. they didn t plan for the level of resistance that you have from the ukrainians. so what you have is the russians trying to provide supplies to their own troops that are having very difficult times in getting it there. it does sound something like a mixed message that we re getting from the west on the state of the russian military. nato officials are saying russian troops are bulking up, preparing for attacks. we re also hearing the russian military is more fragile than expected, starting to defy orders. it might be difficult for americans to understand the status right now of what s going on with the russian military. well, i can tell you the impression yesterday from the classified briefing that we got is that the administration understands that this is going to take this conflict is going to go on for some time. and because of that, we re going