speed when the first night of fighting underway in ukraine the country's military holding his ground with the humanitarian crisis growing more dire by the minute. i'm dana perino welcome to special edition of "america's newsroom". benjamin hall coming live from the beef ukraine, i think you're getting a little snow. >> a little bit of snow, air.

whether or not putin will move this far west. it is not a good sign, the mayor of the city said it may be a target will have to wait and see. dana: we will take it to the next hour, benjamin is here with the latest in the country. that fighting has forced 370,000 ukrainians phil flynn j others are in basements and subways. waiting for the next wave of attacks. russia targets more of ukraine's infrastructure. a reported missile strike blowing up a civilian oil depot outside of kiev ukraine and outside of the second largest city. the former secretary of state condoleezza rice reacted on "fox news sunday" she said vladimir putin may have bitten off more than he can chew. >> he was always calculating and cold. this is different he is erratic, victim ologies about what it happened but now it goes back to

blaming lenin for the foundation of kiev in the russians of ukraine. he is descending into something that i personally have not seen before. dana: we have team fox coverage lieutenant keith kellogg is standing by. peter doocy is at the white house. but we can with trey yingst at the ukrainian capital of kiev is about 8:00 p.m. what is it like? >> good afternoon the russian defense ministry said they've hit over 1000 ukrainian military targets. but they haven't talked about the civilian targets getting hit by russian missile threat the city entrapped the country referred air raid sirens like benjamin and levin has heard the capital under attack. going for cover whenever ended ever they can. this comes as russian missiles in the past two days have hit significant infrastructure, not only in the city but across the country. you mentioned the oil depot

south of kiev causing flames in the air and blow up the entire night sky. yesterday morning there was an apartment complex that was sent here killing two people after the russian missile slammed into the residential building. we hear these reports of fighting outside of the city often sporadic gunfire as those ukrainian forces tried to push back the russian troops attempted to enter the city. the mayor of kiev was interviewed by the associated press and he was asked about the situation and whether or not there would be an evacuation of civilians from the city and he responded with the ominous response, the city is surrounded that is what ukraine in the capital is dealing with, you mentioned other cities like the second largest ukrainian city kharkiv under heavy fire. the work continues under a cease-fire negotiation between the russians and the ukrainians, tonight there is no indication that that is working in the conflict moves forward.

dana: thank you so much. watch this. russian troops with fierce resistance. vladimir putin is frustrated by the lack of progress in that russia could be facing a much longer war than a bargain for. the spring in lieutenant general keith kellogg a national security advisor to mike pence. your assessment right now of the way the ukrainians are able to fight back in clinic continue, when the fourth day. >> thank you for having me. it is incredible to watch, they lost their momentum they've not been able to decapitate the government in order to get to president zelensky, the army is not been able to take kiev and they slowed all their momentum. this is fascinating to me too

watch. it is it shows the moral to the physical as three days to one per what it means by that. you can never discount the heart of your army and the willingness to fight. ukraine is showing that. they are willing to fight for their country and push back and they are fighting very hard. i think this will be absolutely critical. if he doesn't win this week and they're able to take kiev, i think you will lose and be studied for the rest of the world. the reason he knows that he made it, if you talk about special conga readiness, he would not be talking about special combat readiness and nuclear weapons if he didn't think about that. russians fight that way. the escalate to de-escalate. they have slow yield nuclear weapons that they can put off in a distance, hit a dirt field and make nuclear weapons, the president should have addressed

that when he was asked that question in the news conference. he should of been very clear to go to this level the world will not tolerate nuclear weapons even though yield or super low yield nuclear weapons. it's fascinating to watch. dana: corporal number one, this is ukrainian ambassador to the u.s. talking about the other possibility, not nuclear weapons but possible chemical weapons. watch here. do we have the video customer let me read it to you according to reports by ukrainian security service, to occupying forces are also handing out actively gas masks in the russian military there are different versions of what they could do after blowing up industrial tanks of chemical weapons. should that be a concern? >> it sure is anytime a weapon of mass destruction in a

chemical weapon is a mass distraction p would put it together in the nuclear weapons with a couple weapons as well. it all falls into a large category for nerve gas. we should be concerned. condoleezza rice made that, and minute ago about putin's mental state. when i was of the white house for four years we had numerous conversations of putin and able to see this as well. i've never seen it like this. he is performing and acting like i've never seen before and condoleezza rice as well. we may be talking to somebody who understands he is losing a war which would be incredibly significant to the whole continent. i can make a recommendation to our president right now, you better think about what happens if this is lost by putin, what will happen and how does that sit with russia and europe. they can be spending. dana: what do you think about the possibility.

it's not confirmed but there might be talks between the ukrainians and the russians. maybe they figure out a way to provide an offramp to putin if it was concern and how erratic make it look okay. i don't know what you give to the russians at this point after this kind of invasion. >> if there is talks, he is lost, it is not simple. if i was president zelensky i would not go anywhere else i would make sure it's neutral ground i don't trust putin. dana: you say not to have the stocks in belarus? >> no, i would not go to belarus. if you go anywhere and neutral ground in belarus is not neutral. if he talks that signals being sent is that putin is losing any lost and he needs to talk and is looking for an offramp. zelensky has one. that's what it means to me. i think talks would be important but president zelensky should not given, he is winning right now. dana: he is holding his own in a

precarious situation it's dark there 8:00 p.m. we will see what happens overnight. thank you for being with us and we appreciate your time so much. >> as with every war you have the military side, the battlefield and the humanitarian crisis. you have people fleeing that's what we see here as well yesterday we saw thousands of ukrainian women and children some of the most hurt fleeing with all they can carry trying to escape other neighboring country. take a look at what we saw. >> the women and children of ukraine are fueling hundreds of thousands on the move trying to get out however, they can. the road leading to polish is trying to escape. it's whether truly underway, the sinks back about 20 or 30 miles, it's taken some people four days to get this far. the un say 120,000 people have fled the country but it's feared that that could rise to 1 million, maybe 5 million if russians continue to push

indirection. >> only women and children are about to cross the borders. >> kiev men and the women and children. >> men from 18 - 60 are sent back told to defend their country. many fear they will never see the loved ones again. >> kindergarten school for the baby and everything is gone. >> it is forcible to your relatives, your mom and dad. your grandma and your relatives. maybe a goodbye to a loved one. it is a real war. it is a threat to the whole world. today it'll be ukraine but what

country will be next, nobody knows, he is crazy he is just crazy. >> along the route some people have run out of gas basically abandoned their cars now they are walking hoping to find shelter on the other side that many do not know where they're going next. >> if i can make this personal for a second i have three young daughters on my own we drove down the line of cars for hours and hours look into the eyes of these families. it is devastating many did not think this invasion was going to come they left in such a hurry. they have been told perhaps it would not happen until the last minute and they left not know where they're going to go or where they're going to stay taking with them what they can carry. as a humanitarian crisis and if the war dragged on and on that will continue to rise. the number of people that already fled about 350,000 now. again that is fear that it could rise to 4 million or 5 million which is why the next few days are so critical to see if it

escalates or if putin finds an offramp read we do not know trying to predict what he will do is impossible. dana: incredible to hear their stories and think about that they only had a few moments to grab what was the most important thing they can put in a suitcase and try to keep the children from being fearful. did you notice that part i think some of the kids that we've seen are smiling their parents are doing as good a job as they can even while their hearts are breaking. >> remarkable thing you see the resilience of children, they are too young to understand its appearance to understand the full weight of what is happening and how their lives are being changed forever. the children take with them what they can grab their toys and they can bounce back and you see it in refugee camps across the world and they are resilient. it's a true testament to human nature they can pull through.

it is difficult for the families of course everyone hopes that they will make it back to this country and pick up their lives where they left off. we just do not know. dana: thankful for your coverage. thank you so much we will move on how the war in ukraine is sweeping the state for president biden's first state of the union address that takes place tuesday next. >> the atrocity that fall squarely on the shoulders of vladimir putin and his cronies they have to be from now on. they can never reenter the world stage anything other than prize and war criminals. once upon a time, at the magical everly estate, landscaper larry and his trusty crew... were delayed when the new kid totaled his truck. timber... fortunately, they were covered by progressive, so it was a happy ending... for almost everyone.

dana: if you been glued to our coverage you would've seen the brave ukrainian mom, she was on her air yesterday with an urgent gut wrenching plea for help as russian forces attack her homeland. she and her baby are hiding out in a subway station and kiev. a makeshift bomb shelter as explosions rocked the city. joining us again, thank you for your time and all you've done. you are so inspiring to all of us yesterday. we wanted to bring you back, how is it going. >> it is going well. the night is the most worrying time, we expect the worst to

happen. people were smiling and they were saying thank you to the army or good morning. hello how are you, i am alive today they said the most important thing. just to stay alive pre-to we will hide in shelter. the people fighting for us on the ground. dana: they are fighting how are you getting information how are you able to get information from outside or from around the country to find how it's going. >> this surprises me with internet connection everybody saw what they were doing.

watching the news and looking much happening. say hello. everybody's reading the news for now we don't do much we just sat here. dana: yesterday you made an emotional appeal stated for freedom and democracy, independence and there have been some developments. it's very interesting i'll give you one example. for the first time since world war ii germany is going to change its policy and it will now not only spend more of its own money on its defense but is willing to spend weaponry to conflict zone to help ukrainians repel the russians. what do you think of moves like that? >> i think it's not enough. you are trying to not to be

enrolled. if you're concerned and want to stop putin before he gets to europe and you hope again is tricky stuff, we thought he would go to poland why should we die for this because it applies his hunger. the same with putin the hunger here in ukraine previously was happening his huge is not just occupying crimea what he is doing is the genocide of ukrainians his territory in just to take this under control and then he will proceed. this is nothing he could do. so far he is lying to you and

from diplomacy. one example if i drive on the red light and hit someone and killed someone i would be imprisoned for this. so what putin did his airplane, tanks in the machinery drawn from the redlines into my country violated the laws of the country, international laws and he is not punished and nobody's talking about his imprisonment and he killed thousands of people and it's his fault thousands of lives of ukrainians and russians. dana: would you support the idea, the possibility is not confirmed but were getting some reports there are talks about possible talks between ukrainians and the russians. would you support that. >> there should be some talk but just to give ukrainians the time

to stand in for you guys to fly here as fast as possible. he must go. how can he deal with the person that's lying to you all the time. it's ridiculous. you're already saying about diplomacy. it's only military training. then he said he's not killing civilians and now he's killing civilians and then he said the russian city they say they would have ukrainian fashions and regime and their protecting peace in ukraine and killing the people. he is lying right now and why do you think that after these talks you can trust him, why this is a

war imprudent understands the language of the world stop being in denial, it is started. the hard times in the dark times four days ago i was taken to my kids to school and everything was fine but now i realize i am in a nightmare in this is real. it is happening at our door. dana: we just talk to a few people that decided to leave and they are trying to get to poland. you have any thoughts about leaving the subway in trying to get out of the city? >> from time to time i was panicking deciding what am i doing here, i have kids and i'm putting them in danger. but i come back to the same decision, i stay here, this is my native land and they will stay here with my brothers and

sisters and i will fight with ukraine. me being here with my kids talking to you as americans and other people this is my fight against putin and i think this is very powerful weapon. dana: i don't if it's possible but we would love to see, is your baby asleep? our viewers would love to see the face of this little one if there's any possibility this beautiful child. there we go. >> this is my powerful weapon. dana: a beautiful baby. >> the reason i'm strong is because she makes me the strong. this is why i'm like a dragon i'm fighting like a dragon. i cannot take the weapon in my hands because of a child but if it wasn't for her i would take the gun.

otherwise i don't see how we can stop it. only with the force. dana: you are our favorite dragon mama. please stay safe and stay in touch. we will bring your story and your word. they are powerful. >> and i say one last word i want to say i don't think poland is safe he will come there. dana: poland may not be safe. thank you so much, we will be in touch with you and the sweet baby girl. thank you. benjamin? >> thank you dana, you see things like that they are humbling they need to show stories like that. it's a reminder of the horror and people here struggling they are stuck. coming up next meanwhile the u.s. and european allies with sanctions against russia over the military offenses in

ukraine. this comes as president biden is preparing to give his first state of the union address on tuesday. white house correspondent from the north lawn with more. hey peter. >> afternoon. the latest sanctions drop last night and then this morning we get the news that russia is elevating their nuclear readiness. after that the white house official with the statement that the russians signed onto last month says we affirm that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fun but again things could possibly change in the white house is monitoring these reports that russia is elevating their nuclear readiness. >> this is a pattern that we seen from president putin to the course of a conflict. manufacturing transit don't exist in order to justify further aggression in the global community and the american people putin's moves are

considered an escalation. a possible signal of financial punishment for putin may not be working as republican critics say it is time to try something else. >> it is time for the president and european partners to quit pussyfooting around. the financial sanctions last night are riddled with loopholes. i know they sanction 80 for the banks and russia but vladimir putin controls 100% he can use the other. >> president biden is not here his home in delaware the plan is to attend a relative's funeral at some point later on this afternoon. we know he got everything in the morning about the latest with russians invasion of ukraine. we do not have a tiktok of the schedule for today with concern to that.

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roadside bombs against russian forces. were far away from the front lines although there was a tax in the closest airstrike to the city about 12 miles away. yesterday the mayor said aggression airfield an hour away was repelled from 60 russian soldiers involved. i'm not sure have any were killed but a number were fleeing to the woods. it's because an approaching potential combat that many people are leaving and hundreds of thousands of ukraine there passing through scrambling to get west in the safe zone to the polish border. we went to the train station and we found all the trains are sold out this week. in the past 24 hours 120 americans have left ukraine according to u.s. officials predecided the desperation many are feeling since the russian invasion. once notable the flag is not been raised with any major city in this country. the students we are speaking to her nervous they feel only a

matter of time. for russian forces they are trying to thousand russian marines and variable, moving in on the city. there putting up a tough fight, slowing the russian advance. the u.s. officials say the russians are not nearly as far along on day four of the operation they would've liked. russians are sending reinforcement 2000 russian marines and mariupol. russian special forces from the second largest city kharkiv to the northeast. growing concerns like that about east russian sending 70 fleeing not just on the trains but on the roadways as well as you just saw yesterday heading in here. all ukrainian women and children can flee but military aged males 18 - 60 are forbidden from leaving the country. president zelensky to create a mobilization for war. ukrainian leaders are feeling bolding from the chancellor

promising abuse defense many of the u.s. have wanted for years and more important right now in this war pledging to deliver a thousand tank missiles firing systems and let them drive, did you can fire as a russians will be shooting back and devastating effects on the battlefield and dozens of russian tanks restored to ukrainian officials. over 4000 russian soldiers are killed. many in the west think that will be high. it shows a devastation resistance that russians are feeling trying to invade this country and people want to be free. these weapons have slowed the russian advance including 500 antiaircraft missiles that the germans are also pledging. a number are shooting down russian gunships, 67 russian gunships have been shot down. it's very clear that the russians are trying to gain a foothold throughout the country not just outside of the capital. one southeast of here as well. a message to nato, vladimir

putin said despite nuclear forces on alert as we heard from peter doocy as likely u.s. forces will respond, no confirmation for the pentagon. you can imagine any deployed ballistic missile submarines are going to be responding they will not sit there and carrying on business as usual. there alert posture will be raised, you can have american bomber pilots on more of an alert status and being called in pre-this dramatic increase in day for the groundwork. it's another reason people are so nervous. as you know walking around the city people are scared and nervous and quite a change a weekend ago. it is sunday evening. these kids in the town are used to carrying on social capital of this country and neighbors were not prepared for a ground war. that's what many are doing preparing for one. >> everywhere you turn there is another story uplifting or terrifying. lucas tomlinson.

our colleague in lviv. dana: thank you for being there. a lewis defense officials a bottom report in this frustrated about his invasion is going. moscow was not expected to face as much resistance. jennifer griffin in the moscow in the 1990s. she saw this firsthand in kosovo. when you think about those reports that putin is frustrated, does not ring true to your experience? >> it's interesting. intelligence analysts that i spoke to our thinking to escalate and de-escalate. that's why he's threatening to nuclear weapons. in response to put the nuclear force on high alert as senior u.s. defense official tells me we believe this is an unnecessary step and escalatory wanted could make things much, much more dangerous. we have no reason to believe officials said or doubt the validity of this order but how

it's manifested itself is not completely clear yet. adding we are confident we have the ability to defend the homeland, allies and partners. the statement by president of belarus. the country that putin has annexed without firing a shot. president alexander who is putin's the factor vice president issued the following threat and suggest he may allow russia to place its nuclear weapons and belarus. he references the new sanction announced by the white house and europe. it is worse than war russia is being pushed towards a third world war. we should be very reserved and stay clear because nuclear war is the end of everything lucas said in a statement. as lucas mentioned, they are facing stiff resistance using their bodies to block the russian tanks. russian forces have not taken

any major cities yet after four days of fighting or air superiority. they remain 30 kilometers outside of the capital. no change in the past or progress in the past 24 hours. they have faced fuel shortages that we've been reporting on, supply and logistics of particular concern of kharkiv where they are preparing for a siege that would lead to many of civilian deaths. u.s. officials have described the ukrainian resistance as remarkably brave and heroic as evidenced by the students singing the ukrainian national anthem in the underground subway now serving as a bomb shelter. ♪

>> the usss is putin cortez committed two thirds of the russian combat power against ukraine into the country. president zelensky government is still governing and viable and he has little belief that president zelensky the talks of the belarus delegation on the border tomorrow will bear any fruit. dana: while we have you, can you take us back to what it was like and how dangerous it was to report from moscow at the time that you were there. >> it was very interesting, it was the end of the soviet union and things were starting to normalize, relations with the west what i remember at that time. i remember some of her sources being killed after we were going speak with them. there was a journalist in particular that i went to meet with who was in opposition leader, an activist journalist he was opposing the rule of

putin ally and after our interview with her the fsp the secret police came and dragged her out of her house and they killed her in front of her children. it was a brutal place when i lived there. i never thought i would see vladimir putin and russian forces moving in and taking over another country but we certainly seen over the last 20 years has documented the poisoning in the attempt to the assassination of all of the opposition and consolidation of power. today is the seven theater bursary of the assassination of the main opposition leader outside of the kremlin. dana: fascinating. we thank you for your expertise and your hard work. i know you haven't had much of a break. we appreciate it. >> the growing humanitarian crisis in ukraine where thousands of citizens are seeking shelter, many young

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>> days and nights in the shelters, babies are born on the ground, children do not go to school. this is the major humanitarian catastrophe in the sense of europe. >> the fighting has led to a humanitarian crisis across his country. the group of abundance international operates in ukraine he says they only have enough food for a few weeks as power outages could endanger the health and the children in the babies in their care. davis joins us live from ukraine. mark, thank you for joining us and thank you for what you do. can you explain, take a picture of what your orphanages are going threat the moment. >> it is horrendous.

such an incredible ordeal to go through. both of the origin orphanages that we support are in active were combat zones. it is in the path of crimea and the ukrainians have been holding on, the russians in nicolette, the russian somebody been taken over. what had to happen it was terrifying these children are having to go to storm shelters i was there yesterday and watching the nurses rushing as the sirens carry babies down there and keep in mind these children with special needs and handicap and down syndrome trying to keep kids happy for hours on end is horrific. what really got my attention if i share, go ahead. >> i was going to ask how old

are the children and how are they coping at the moment? >> thank you for asking that is a question i've always dealt with the newborns and 4-year-old and from five and up they go to another orphanage for schooling. the crisis hasn't been the noise these children cannot understand bombs anymore they hear thunder or lightning outside. what they really get involved with is being moved. why they're being moved from their care. we've been assured from the doctor facilities psychologically as well bring the nurses have to keep their head on in the middle of all of this so it can be comforting for the children it is a heroic effort by everyone. >> those images are staggering and heartbreaking.

you say you will they'll food for a few weeks. your website is at the bottom of the screen anyone at home can reach out and support those children. the only thing that will help them now is the end of this war. thank you so much for joining us today. thank you for what you do. please go ahead. >> the police understand were turned out network the whole country. were able to use it we just got to the orphanage here had one weeks food left. we don't know what's in the rest of the country. your giving goes here to abundance international.org but also if you can and you know an american or western person living in ukraine. i want to know who they are if they're trustworthy because were trying to give help to all the orphanage of people we can send money to. a market abundance international.org or give thank you for allowing extra seconds to share that. >> thank you for coming on we appreciate it. an important message from mark.

vladimir putin putting his nuclear forces as moscow faces growing pushes of invasion of ukraine and how the u.s. is responding to the escalation and what it can mean for nato. we'll be right back.

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dana: let's bring in michael allen former special assistant to george w. bush. he been following these issues for a long time what you make of this escalation. some described as an escalation to de-escalate. >> thank you for having me. i believe putin is trying to get leverage. he is losing the public relation more, this is taking a lot more russian lives than he would've calculated. i think you seen a diplomatic thing that he's tried to do. he's trying to get leverage by saying nuclear weapons on the table. i might be able to use the tactical's variety here against ukrainians or other nato allies who were arming the ukrainians. i think that is going to backfire. people are worried about the stability of vladimir putin, the speeches he's given recently have been absolutely crazy. i think this makes the west more fearful and more likely to arm and give assistance to the

ukrainians. >> listen to the tweet from the ukrainian foreign minister. he says russian propaganda has gone off the rails and speculates in ukraine might be prepared to drop a dirty bomb on the russian territory, ukraine does not have nuclear weapons as they conduct any work to acquire them and were responsible member of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. russia is losing a pr war but the propaganda is strong especially inside russia. >> they do this very well we have seen some of the russian propaganda over the last 5 - 10 years in here in the united states, they are trying to keep their population on board with the russian invasion and they are making outrageous claims with ukrainians in the west are up to. you heard them say there is not season ukraine, that they want to stand up against another dirty bomb a accusation is the same family of wacky things that

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collected data that's all from us here in lviv. with the word of caution, although putin has suffered a

few setbacks on the battlefield, now is the time or it could lead to serious escalation as he lashes out for the next few days of the absolute critical will be are covering all of that for our viewers. but dana, thanks so much for today and we look forward to next tempering. dana: you give sets of stories of those on the ground those trying to flee will continue having that all week with your perch at the time to you today are coverage continues, brett picks up her continuing specialized coverage of the war on ukraine. >> russian president vladimir putin is or the nuclear forces to be foot on high alert. a strong resistance from the ukrainians slow russian forces in ukraine should call ukrainian resident zelensky president biden readies his first state of the union address. welcome to washington and to fox news alive i am bret baier. we have peter doocy at the white house jennifer griffin life from the pentagon. lucas thomason in lviv in

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