but the ukrainians are putting up a great defense on their own. the supply lines and the logistics are too far extended for putin to carry this off without some real difficulty. alicia: i m going to bring in my colleague mike emanuel who also has questions. mike: volodymyr zelensky has been offered free passage to leave this country. what are your thoughts on that. when the state department offered president zelensky an escape plan to leave kyiv. that was a slap in the face to every ukrainian. he was smart enough to see that. that will make them a unified country. a good move on zelensky s part,