now? i think if you re talking to a military analyst they would say absolutely. i think a lot of people who have watch this closely are aware that russia is not throwing its hole might into it. if you talk to ordinary ukrainians, i think they are terrorized. i think they are absolutely out of their minds with fear with what s going on. you saw the scenes of the train station. they are putting together emergency trains to get people out and guards had to fire into the air because people were packing to the trains to get out. so yes russia is holding back some of its main forces, not throwing everything at it. they are rumbling buildings. but 200 missiles is enough to terrorize the population. small arms fire is enough to keep people in their house so yeah, they are scared. bret: it s more about you guys, washington post reporter says our hotel just ordered us back into the bunker. the kitchen staff whose families are sheltered with us including grandmothers and children served
hands. it seems it will be easier for you and me to come to an agreement then when this gang of drug addicts and neo-nazis who have taken the entire ukrainian people hostage. he is calling the leadership of ukraine neofascists and drug addicts. not much prospect for talks there. as far as the military situation on the ground, more than 200 missiles fired by russia. some residential areas hit hard also. no control of any major population centers on day three. the longer this goes on certainly the more world pressure grows on russia to pull back. shannon: steve, bret baier is here with me. bret: great job. thank you. bret: when you talk to ukrainians, are they surprised the full force of russia is not raining down on them? either the air campaign is not as fierce as they thought it would be or that soldiers are not on the streets of kyiv right
military. he will hope, angus congressman cut inspiring stories of couragy ukrainians that will inspire people to help and that s what you re hoping for in this war between dictatorships, autocracies, democracies like ours and what like ukraine wants to be. shannon: troubling reports. small arms fire, fighting in the streets, things are progressing in kyiv as people try to hold on. the wall street journal editorial board had a piece. vladimir putin s likely conquest of ukraine raises an uncomfortable question. could russia next attack a member of nato? the alliance had better prepare for the possibility because the russian dictator has all the promised test it. that is a whole nother discussion. should the line be crossed. do you think putin is that
you re right, the ukrainians do fly the mig 29. the i owe 76 is about the size of a galaxy. there giant cargo planes. they carry over 100 paratroopers. shooting down to russian transport planes loaded with paratroopers, many are young conscripts, 18, 19 years old, it sends a heck of a message back to moscow. and when those bodies return, you saw this in afghanistan in the 80s with the russians when young soldiers died in afghanistan. the russian, the soviet government didn t tell the family what happened. they said diet doing their international duty. the russians have not admitted to having one casualty get officials on the ground say over 450 russian troops have been killed in fighting. just about 24 hours. keep in mind when the russians went into syria they lost about 100 troops during that time in the past seven years. it s extremely violent. ukrainians are putting up a hell
heard on the ground. this air base, that s what we talked about, the back-and-forth fight between the russians and the ukrainians. as the crow flies, it s about 2. we will see as the russians move in. they had been seeing a lot of ukrainian resistance, significant. u.s. and british intelligence saying they have been surprised, the russians have, and how slow they have been able to go because of the pushback by ukrainian forces. this is the old ussr and you just get a sense of what has happened since the 1990s. estonia, latvia, lithuania declared their independence. in the years that followed, all of these other 12 do the same. this is ukraine. this is where we are now.