there s no question that ukrain war moore has added to that it was here before hand, make no mistake. fiscal policies have implications and that is why we have high energy prices had tha is why we have inflation and that is why it s very difficult to control the. grateful for your time ni tonight. have a wonderful evening, sir. you too pick. up next, bret baier talks e: with general mark milley about memorial day. or henri crane and the future o the military. there is a lot of changes in society and we have to change the situation so we gotta make some fundamental changes in the next 20 years.
few weeks, it will shape the outcomes of what will happen. it could end up as a grind and go and on it could end up in th a peace negotiation. there s buddy alternatives picked we just don t know right now. in this case presence of a zelenskyy has got to find that pick does that mean that you re going to support a few ones to pay back crimea from the russians quick. the military for support pwhatever the leadership determines. this is a war between ukraine and russia and how this ends on the battlefield. is that a problem for us.
reporter: he s already said or his officls have said that itould lead to aecity balance put on the border with finland. when finland joins as it is expected to, it will more than double nato s current border wi. so that sort of ulline, if you will, grows. and nato srticle v which says what o nation is in trouble and undeattack, e others there will be a sort of a t much longer border with russia tha nato may ultimately need to prott. and of course fins may have to go and protect poland or other country should you know, should russia show aggression towards them. it iexpected that this will happen quite quickly. nic rertson for uin
and then an fial decision cong as early as this weend. but the reality is tt most fins here believe that because of the aggression that presint putin is showing in ukraine, th a better off joining nato. this has bn a slowhift in previous decades. haseen accelerated ov the past couple of months. and there opportunity now while ssia is fully engaged fighting in ukraine to make this significant and historic shift. it is the changing geopolitical and escape that president putin has triggered as he tries to change the security dynamic, the post world war ii security dynamic in europe. it is having an opposite so really what yoare saying is that we clde loing at two new nato members right o russia s doorstep. how much will that rattle president putin?
also in the conflict, the largest aircraft in the world, ukraine s an-225, was blown up in a russian attack in kyiv. interior ministry says 350 civilians have been killed since the start of the invasion including 14 children, more than 1400 people have been injured. according to the united nation, more than 368,000 ukrainians have fled the country with more than half of them seeking refuge in poland. protests against the world are intensifying and most sickly tha significantly that is happening in russia where they detained 6,000 demonstrators. paris, london, elsewhere, glowing blue and yellow in a show of support with many european countries closing their air space to russian planes. later this morning president biden is going to hold a call with u.s. allies to discuss the response to russia s invasion