[gun and missile fire] >> breaking overnight, a battle for kyiv. incredible fight for their capital city as russian troops come in and bring war directly to their streets. you are watching a breaking news edition of "fox & friends first." >> eight affiant president zelenskyy says he's staying to fight. >> we are following every

breaking information with live coverage and washington. steve, what are you seeing right now? >> multiple gun battles between russian special forces, moving through this capital city of kyiv so it's clear that some level russian forces are in the city center of kyiv and they've engaged with political forces. doesn't appear to be a major push. shelling on the outskirts of the city several miles away. the president of ukraine announced that last night it's going to be the big push. he expected russians to try to take the city paid he said the fate of ukraine hangs in the balance. that did not occur overnight. the russians are still out on the outskirts. we've seen a number of videos from ukraine's president zelenskyy posting in front of the presidential palace really in an effort to show that he's still here, he's not

leaving. he and his cabinet and tend to be here as a symbol of the state not running away from the russians. as far as damage goes here, we did see another apartment building hit by what seems to be a missile. no reports of any deaths from that but several people injured and also people are leaving. the train station, it's a real scene of chaos. soldiers had to fire in the air. the emergency trains leaving towards poland and people clamoring to get on to my 50,000 people leaving the past 24 hours. poland is expecting up to 1 million refugees. back to you. >> stories that people have been infiltrating the people of ukraine hiding themselves like ukrainians to try to find out information, find out resistance points and the like? >> we've heard a number of reports of actually russian soldiers as special forces donning ukrainian uniforms and

killing ukrainian soldiers at checkpoints. i think it's no holds barred in this conflict. >> scary. >> we talk to you 24 hours ago and at that time russian forces had just entered the outskirts of kyiv. are you surprised it hasn't taken them longer to make headway? >> i am surprised. i think they are holding back an incredible amount of their forces. i think it's a good thing we haven't seen massive shelling in the city center. we haven't seen buildings leveled but that could still be in the future. >> without a doubt. waking up the blue skies but on the ground still so much violence. also refusing to evacuate are the citizens of lviv, ukraine end. >> that area, my? >> the third morning since the invasion began.

ukrainian command-and-control structure very much intact. the russians do not have air superiority. ukrainian air defenses are still active and still relevant. they are still very much in the fight. taking a position here in the city of lviv. you can notice by the video they do not have their helmets on as the fighting is not large or here. we've seen air strikes to the north of the city and the air raids go off pretty much every day, not really causing a panic but you do see people pick up a hustle if you will to take their positions. the people here are very eager to join the fight. what you see out here to the west of the bulk of the fighting is the refugee traffic. the main egress point is to the west as russian troops are coming in from the north, the east, and the south. the normal trip from kyiv to

hear is about six hours by car. we talked with a couple this morning that took them 14 hours as the main road in a giant traffic jam in, the u.n. committee for refugees say it's a record so far as of yesterday, some 50,000 refugees pouring over the polish and moldovan borders. that is the border with romania. you have many people trying to flee this country at least on the polish side setting up some temporary housing to deal with the ukrainian refugees. they established a medical train to get any injured ukrainians to the medical care that they need. the fighting has been most intense to the east up here. in the capital city of kyiv, it has manifest largely in the form of small arms fire going straight to street, artillery fire and some missile rockets, one of them hitting a high-rise apartment building.

you know there has been some collateral damage. there is been significant damage among the russian forces. not the least of which is a couple of il-76 troop transport planes shot down to the south of kyiv. presumably they were loaded with paratroopers. they were shot about 30 miles apart from each other, 50 miles south of the city and presumably they were preparing for some paratrooper inserts to add to the number of russian forces trying to tighten the noose around the capital city, a capital city that still stands in a country called ukraine which also is still surviving in this fight, day three now this invasion. >> when it comes to supplies, we are seeing people take shelter in subways and images of empty store shelves as well. it's not a risk of food do, critical supplies going away.

i'm wondering how long people can hold on. >> that's a tough question. most of the restaurants seem to be closed and they close early. the curfew goes into effect at 10:00 at night but really as soon night falls, the traffic out here in the streets, the businesses, they all seem to shut down. as far as supplies and cash, we've witnessed the run on banking. i was telling you yesterday that the atms are largely inoperable because they've run out of cash but i've seen a couple of atms with big lines in front of them this morning. the part of them is... i went to an atm yesterday and able to pull out the equivalent of a dollar 50 and if you're looking to move your family it's not going to get you very far. >> thank you very much. as the war reaches the heart of ukraine, pushing for more nations for russia to stop. >> nato is mobilizing its

response force. rich edson joins us live at the pentagon with more. rich? >> also part of an effort to reach the latter part of last year where state department officials say they were trying to press other countries including china to pressure russia against launching this attack. it's an effort that ultimately failed. down to the united nations security council yesterday. they are there were some draft resolutions up for a vote on the security council calling on russia to halt its invasion and withdraw from ukraine when choosing to improving russia's invasion, china abstained. largely blame the west for starting the fire in their words in europe and has largely refused to criticize russia, the country that just invaded ukraine. nato mobilized its response force, a defensive troop up to 40,000 troops. nato says it has 400 planes in

high alert and 400 ships at sea. >> with there should be noticed from his' calculation or misunderstanding. we'll do what it takes to defend every ally and every inch of nato territory. >> griff: russia has faced widespread global condemnation including demonstrations across russia. sanction russian president vladimir putin and foreign minister sergey lavrov. sanctioning a foreign leader is usually saved for censuring leaders like bashar al-assad. russia's former military and politicalconsequend sweden if they attempt to try to join nato. there are 30 nato countries. ukraine is not part of nato. another party not part of nato

is georgia. russia invaded georgia in 2008 and still remains in parts of that country. back to you. >> fascinating geopolitical dynamics they are. thank you. walking through some of the latest movements on the ground in ukraine. >> all these red dots are air strikes or fires, possibly cruise missiles from the russians or bombs dropped by russian planes as well as on the ground fighting. all of that fighting is centering in on kyiv. some marines landing in the port here. others coming from primera anotherarmored mechanized groupm belarus where they were trading and had a big price here. all of it is circling around kyiv, the capital city and that is the challenge for the

ukrainians to hold kyiv and the government where the president is. >> let's bring in dr. le rebecca grant to discuss the situation on the ground. dr. grant, it's obvious to many that something is off with putin. he's always been a killer but his problem is bigger and significant bit it be safe to assume that this putin would react the same way he would have five years ago. we know putin is an authoritarian dictator drunk on power but it seems like senator rubio is alluding to something different. >> i agree. putin turned out to be far, far crazier then we had any idea.

finland invented the molotov cocktail when they fought the soviet union back in 1939-1940. it shows that putin is in a crazy spot on top of that. very battle fixated on this point and in an irrational frame of mind. >> what's your latest assessment of how the war is going this morning? >> to go big things, the nato response force and russia still does not have control of the air over ukraine. that's really good for ukraine that raises the risk. much bigger than anything they've done before. i thought russia was boasting about having attacked with their cruise missiles. that's not enough to get the job done and tells me that they have miscalculated on the strategy and certainly traveling on the level of ukraine's assistance.

we could deny putin the win on the ground, i hope. >> have said they are interested in some form of peace negotiations on neutral territory. do you think that donetsk putin would settle less than anything except regime change? >> we know that putin wants zelenskyy out because zelenskyy has tilted toward the west end nato and now he's become a world hero. on this policy, i think it's up to the zelenskyy and the rest of the world should follow his lead. zelenskyy said he's always willing to talk with russia. i don't know if you should today but i believe in my heart that it is zelenskyy's call to make about when and if to talk to russia or not. >> flipping that on its head for a moment assuming the opposite is true, do you think the follow-up on carly's question, the ukrainian resistance, always seen with people of all do you think that's enough to ultimately drive putin to the

negotiating table? >> we just can't guess. i'll tell you this, putin was planning on a really quick lightning strike. i think he may have overreached. so at some point if putin or someone around him may say, hey, it's time to talk. on ukrainian resistance, i'm surprised top to bottom of the folks on the street and the folks who are really the military forces using their javelins and stinger missiles keeping the air defense together, they are doing a great job with not enough help. i heard senator chris coons say send them aid to come of god to help them out. >> there was a council vote to condemn russia this invasion of her cane and every nation voted in favor of it except for russia obviously and china chose to

abstain. does that show a fracture between china and russia? >> yes, i think it does. my take, xi jinping thought putin was going to take the east and enclave, not make this crazy attack. china hates to be criticized by the world and i think xi jinping has got to be disturbed by the level of protest around the world and the support of ukraine. i think he's a little bit taken aback. but shame on him to agreeing to buy make more energy and helping russia out in any way. >> we had in two today, another day of expected intense fighting. what are the pressure points most worried about russia by this point? >> pressure point number one is zelenskyy. he's the one we've got to keep them in there. i think ukraine's resistance can go on one way or another but they keep pressure point, trying again to take down the integrated air defense system. they are never going to have air

superiority below 15,000 feet because of the stinger missiles so they are now seeing that the aircraft are vulnerable and low operations and approaches to runways. the other pressure point, the russian span of control. they've got fighting going on at 15 or 20 significant locations. can they pull together air strikes and the ground forces moving to terrain objectives and that is a special force element. very complicated and i hope with ukraine's resistance, maybe we'll start to see the wheels come off of the russian operational momentum. >> so many open questions on the kyiv front really quickly offered to get the president out of ukraine. because of how significant the level of danger he's under it. his response is i need ammo, i don't need a ride. imagine that from the leader of a nation that's facing death. how significant is that show

strength and support in the fact that he has completely sad that he's sticking with the country of ukraine? >> a former actor and comedian become a great force for democracy and for ukraine. it is fantastic and i wish they would just shut up and send more help to ukraine. >> we are very yakking -- >> we try to send help but how do you get those air defense systems and all of that inside the country during a war? thank you so much for that perspective. always great to have you on. >> protest erupting around the world including in georgia, where hundreds took to the streets. landmarks here in the u.s., new york city lighting up in ukraine's colors to show solidarity. earlier, hundreds of protesters gathering in sydney, australia, and the rally against the

ongoing warpage demonstrators taking to the streets in russia itself where thousands are arrested for speaking out against vladimir putin's invasion. >> you're watching a special breaking news edition of "fox & friends first." army veteran cory mills weighs in on president putin's response to biden. we will also here live, very busy. keep it here all morning long.

[explosions >> as the battle for kyiv rages on, present biden is away from the white house. >> he'll hold a phone call from delaware. >> that's right. good morning. president biden opting to spend the day in wilmington it will take a call with vice president harris and his national security team around 10:00 a.m. this morning and that's all we know. it's unclear if we will hear anything from the president

today. no public events on the schedule and that comes as root the russian assault on ukraine intensified. democrats here in washington taking time to praise the president's handling of the situation. speaker of the house nancy pelosi saying "i think it's important for people to understand the brilliance with which president biden is conducting this. a man who served decades as a chair the foreign affairs committee. he knows the arena, the personalities." meanwhile republicans with a very different tone. scott brown had this to say. >> president biden is taking these half steps and missteps, is emboldening putin. the fact that he's dillydallying and going on vacation for a day, going back home when he should be in the situation home guiding and going 24 hours a day helping these brave people defend themselves. >> at the white house, our own peter doocy pricing jen psaki after speedo 13's effort to

deter putin. watch >> what have you done through the slow-moving russia crisis that has worked? >> what the president has done is build a global coalition to stand up in the face of president putin and president putin's invasion of ukraine. what he's done is rally the world. >> biden's latest offer to help raise $350 million in military aid to ukraine, i don't like exactly what that aid is militarily being offered after ukraine's president turned down putin biden's offer to evacuate him from the country. zelenskyy said, he needs ammunition, not a ride. >> key line, thank you very much. could this biden administration do more to advent russia's invasion of ukraine question mike let's ask tom homan.

nancy pelosi about the brilliance of one joe biden. do you think the response and lead up to the ukraine has been brilliant? >> i don't. this would have never happen, in my opinion, under a trump presidency. president trump and mike pompeo projected strength across the world. i think putin and other world leaders looked at the result of the biden the ministrations year, they know that he's underwater. they watch the afghanistan withdrawal, it was a travesty. and you said kamala harris with the security conference? i just don't think he took it serious, president biden took it serious. again, i'll say this. my personal opinion is as would never happen under president trump and mike pompeo because i always project

strength. the white house reaches out and what he's done on this. i doubt it. this white house is against trump and anybody who supports trump. >> what is the key way that joe biden failed when it comes to diplomacy? >> i think he should've been tougher upfront. you can take money from russia but when you put sanctions on, they have to be hard for he should've had this conversation from the beginning. please make clear with the other nato countries on what is exactly the plan for ukraine? that was up in the air up to the very end. so i think there should've been more communication. they should have known that they gather the other countries and talk to putin as a group of nato countries rather than joe biden dancing around the subject. when you announce sanctions that he takes military action, i think it's a little too late, a little too little, little too

late. >> is there anything joe biden can do double medically at this point? >> no. the one thing he has done is rally up the countries. i think the other countries need to embrace more sanctions and more responses to putin. the one thing that concerns me is the hundreds of thousands of refugees leaving that i'm sure the united states, we can send more of our resources over there, the deal with the refugees. we see how bad that went with afghanistan and i'm hoping that if we get involved with that, we are already talking about the resources over there with this southwest border out-of-control, help with abetting, help with the processing. i think what they did in afghanistan was a mess. i hope that they learned a lesson with the refugee processing, doing a lot better

of a job. >> do you expect an influx of refugees here in the west? >> i think joe biden has shown that he is going to accept refugees. i think the plan... my inside sources say there is a discussion now going out about who they are going to ascend over and there is also the poured down my border protection with afghanistan debacle, i think with that border out-of-control, joe biden has interest in securing the border. going to have no problems taking limited resources from our southern border and send them over. >> in your notes to our producers, you talk about this very issue, the vetting of these refugees and a potential for vladimir putin to interject russian counter agents in those group of refugees to infiltrate the u.s. what can we do to stop that?

>> the vetting, a proper vetting would take up to 18 months. i think that the state department is heavily involved, they need access to intelligence databases. including dod databases. did you do proper vetting of these people along with the state department? i think the answer is many of them were not. lots of people from the united states to afghanistan didn't have one piece of paper, edge and unification documents. there was no presence in the ukraine -- excuse me, in afghanistan. no afghanistan government was there. who's going to verify the birth certificates. who's going to verify the people who are there? we need to have them placed officials to verify who these people are, is the verification authentic. i hope the biden administration

would do a heck of a lot better of a job. told me that proper vetting was not done before these people were even hit in the u.s. mainland. >> if they do end up sending to ukraine to vet people, you know that's going to be another excuse for this administration to ignore the crisis in our southern border if they can possibly ignore it than they already have. we appreciate what they can. >> russian troops, exclusive gun fire, we take you to the ukrainian capital on the live report of the breaking detail.

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breaking news edition of "fox & friends first." >> we are following every breaking development starting with steve harrington live in kyiv with a brand-new piece of video of a missile striking a residential building. what are you seeing now? >> since the early morning hours, we saw a number of street battles between russian special forces, small pockets moving through the center of this ukrainian capital city fighting against ukrainian soldiers. it seems like they might have been the defenses here. we are announcing the last hour or so explosions 4-5 miles exploding from the north. we heard from the ukrainian president that last night would be the big push by the russians, they would push through today the capital of kyiv, the ukrainian president said the fate hung in the balance. that did not prove to be the case. we did not see the big push. the ukraine's president has

photograph and stop them from the self and multilocation showing the country and world he still here and he's not leaving. as for the russian president vladimir pruden, he's called for ukraine's people to rise out and throw out the neo-nazis and drug addicts running this country. those are putin's terms. you are right to point out that apartment building hit by a missile overnight, you could probably hear that thunderous explosion behind me. it sounds like artillery 4-5 miles back. it's intermittent. every 3-4 minutes there will be another explosion. as far as refugees go, 50,000 already left and real scenes of chaos at the train station, people trying to head out to the west as quickly as possible. back to you. >> griff: that reference abs putin "the neo-nazis running the government," curious considering zelenskyy the president is jewish. >> thousands of citizens are filling for safety leaving their homelands, seeking refuge in

neighboring countries. >> live on the ground in lviv where troops are bracing for battle. >> we have new information this morning coming from the mayor of lviv talking about an airstrip at about 16 miles to the east of where i am, a straight drop of the belarus border, the town or neighborhood 3 russian helicopters attempted to insert troops in that area. they were met with ukrainian resistance beer there was a gun battle and ultimately those troops loaded back on the helicopters, they never really effectively got off the helicopters and left that area. it was a quick gun battle but either the russians had a very small objective they wanted there, or they will repelled by the small arms fire they encountered. we saw in lviv the ukrainian

forces getting on the move. you can tell they have a relaxed disposition because they were carrying their gear, they were not wearing her helmets. the comment had not taken place in the west where they still was combat. air strikes to the north of here, every night you hear the air raid sirens blare out here. we can show you images up from kyiv and that is the volunteer forces, the volunteers that is in re who want to pick up the weapon and to join the fight. the national police handing out weapons to what they initially said any retired military, we use our retired soldier is rushing down to get their weapons and join the fight. you also hear that they are fighting, being turned away from the border. joining the fight, they seem very eager to do that.

what you see largely is that flow of refugee traffic. when you look at the way the russians are coming into the country, they are coming up from the crimean peninsula, coming down from the belarus border, coming in moving west and that's forcing the refugee traffic from the west to the pole and border to the moldovan border for the first time this morning, we have images coming out from the romanian border. we know on the polish side they are setting up some temporary housing, some structure for the ukrainian refugees and also have established a train for the injured refugees to get to hospital facilities inside of poland. but you very much have the ukrainians who are still very much engaged in the fight, very patriotic, very eager to join the fight. the foreign minister has been very active on twitter. one of the things he posted this morning is that the city of kyiv, the beautiful peaceful

city of kyiv still stands. the nation still stands. it still intact. the ability of air defenses still very much intact. clear on this project, u.s. officials watching this is the russians' invading army is creating much better resistance than they had anticipated. >> live on the ground for us. thank you so much for that. let's bring in cory mills under president trump. thank you. i want to get your reaction, taking over this airstrip 60 miles outside. they weren't able to do it. >> i've watch the bravery of many men and women trying to fly. this is actually trying to respond to

encourage the invasion that happened in 2014. they are in the front line, i can test the actual bravery of these volunteers who are selling their businesses, selling their homes, whatever they could in this ammunition to buy more weaponry, anything they could get. this is going to be a conference where they did not have legal aid provided to them. if it wasn't for president trump, i can tell you right i can see the resolve and i'm confident that they will make this a very big challenge. >> president biden approved $350 million in aid to ukraine. nato also said that they are going to try to give ukraine weapons and air defense systems. how would you get those weapons into a country that is currently being attacked on all sides.

>> that's the problem you are going to find is at the air control and the airspace is what vladimir putin is going to try to control. shut down in their aircraft of the area, scramble as many as he can. going to look at alternate means to get weaponry into the areas for rearmament and resupply. remember vladimir putin was already threatening to invade. things we should have been thinking about when he came across in 2014 and an and a crimea. >> i hear you loud and clear. we have to leave it there. thank you so much for joining us this morning. >> thank you. >> american airpower arrives in eastern europe as the war escalates. writes down what the u.s. is done right and wrong. don't go anywhere.

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>> first big headlines we are following. president biden announces ketanji brown jackson's nomination to the supreme court.

jackson set to replace retiring justice stephen breyer pay will be the first black woman to serve on the highest court. jackson currently sits on the d.c. federal court of appeals and will replace merrick garland less than a year ago. the cdc is easing mask recommendations for counties considered to have low risk or medium risk covert transmission. these will apply to more than 70% of the u.s. population. students will also not need to wear masks in the schools if they are in a low or medium risk county. the cdc says masks should still be worn on public transportation. and banning russian state media from monetizing contest on video. will be flagged by facebook and twitter also borrowing russian outlets from advertising on its platform. has not permanently banned president let me pruden's

account or flagging it for misinformation. back to you guys. >> waking up right outside their windows, ukrainian forces holding off attacks in the streets of their capital city. nato has activated its response force for the first time in history. lightning fighters arriving on nato's eastern flank. joining me now our military panels u.s. marine and member of the security team that bought in the battle of benghazi and robert charles, former assistant secretary of state for george w. bush and former naval intel officer. good morning to you both, great to see you. mark, i'll start with you. what's your assessment of the current situation? a lot of people are surprised that russia has not yet dominated airspace, hasn't taken control of any of the city centers either. >> i've worked with a lot of the ukrainians in the past and they are a people of dissolved, they are proud to be who they are.

as we've seen them, what they really need, they need our help through weapons and ammunition, helping with the crisis that's going on along their borders as well with the refugee crisis that's going to develop out of all of this. >> ukrainians are certainly putting up a fight and take a listen from this perspective. he is an expert on russian military. he says i they bear assessing in the first 48 hours where they sense the ukrainian resistance is by how the initial access is doing to decide how to allocate their forces. his perspective is russia is testing the waters, they are going to go all in down the road. >> i guess my perspective is that putin bit off more than he intended and it's going to be

hard to chew. not only the ukrainians resisting but a lot of the reverberations on this are not just in the near term but in the long term. i want to keep some perspective here. this is not the beginning of world war iii. it may be the beginning of the first genuine economic world war because what has happened here is the world is going to ramp up sanctions in response to this egregious set of actions. kyiv is an absolutely beautiful city. what they've done, seventh largest city in europe. the refugee crisis, even the russian people are against this. what's going to happen is you have 70% of all their natural gas comes from both russia and the united states. you are going to see the world turn back -- when russia throws counter sections on europe and tries to turn off in particular in germany hungary and pulling their energy, the united states and the rest of the world need to step up and hold the line.

what's happening on the deterrent side with nato countries is absolutely right. in one sense, this is a unifying force from the end of the world and frankly it reminds of of how economically interdependent we all are. there may be an economic fallout that may be putin would come his way. >> such an interesting perspective. what do you think, it's one thing to win this battle and take over a country in the short term but does vladimir putin have the power to control the country a size of texas with such a significant resistance from the people, does he have the military force to control it in the long-term? >> that depends on how far he wants to go with that. he brings in tactical nukes and utilizing some of the equipment really going after the people,

basically a guerrilla warfare with the resistance. we have the capability and we need to get that ramped up and get that ramped overnight. >> thank you so much for joining us this morning. >> thank you. >> you are watching a special breaking news edition of "fox & friends and first." overnight come ukrainian forces held off russian troops in the streets of kyiv. we have lisa mcclain all here alive. stay with us. don't go anywhere.

[explosions] [sirens] >> breaking overnight, the battle for kyiv. ukraine forces mount an incredible sight for the capital city as russian troops move into city limits and bring the war directly to the streets. >> you are watching a special breaking special breaking news edition of facebook.com/outnumberedfnc here on a saturday morning.