northeast. >> neil: i apologize, and the western part of that country. we will keep you posted on these developments and how they are affecting the markets and your money. gas prices go up, oil goes up, the market stabilizes. russia is anything but. they are free falling. the question is how long vladimir putin can take it. here is "the five." ♪ ♪ >> hello, everybody, i am jesse watters along with jeanine pirro, katie pavlich, and greg gutfeld, it's 5:00 in new york city and this is the five. ♪ ♪ [explosion] >> jesse: fighting continues in ukraine's two biggest cities

as we enter the fifth day of vladimir putin's brutal war, shelling residential buildings and killing civilians in kharkiv as they warned that a frustrated russia could switch to more aggressive tactics. and a massive convoy of russian troops is bearing down on ukraine's capital. talk happening for the very first time today between russia and ukraine. not seeming to have an impact on the violence. trey yingst is reporting live from the ukrainian capital of kyiv. >> okay, we don't have them right now, but i'm sure that we will get back to them shortly. mr. got felled, we have not heard from you for a long time. what is your reaction to what you have seen over the last five days. >> greg: it soul crushing. i have tried to get my mother-in-law out of kyiv.

and i have friends that are russian. i have a lot of friends who are ukrainian. it's obvious that this is an unprovoked war, but it's also a family squabble. you know, the big picture has always been who is ukraine more important to you? is it russia or us? obviously it is russia. it's that border, those people, its long-standing families come a long standing love as well as disputes that have been going on. it's not us. however we are involved because we are allies to ukraine and we also work with russia. that's the way the world is now. so we can't help but get involved, even if it is like a fight that is happening on the other side of town between two families, and it is none of our damn business. but it is our business. you want to root against the bully, putin, but his bully increases his brutality, you can root for the ukrainians and we should, this is not a sports

team. this is not fiction. we have no skin in this game. unfortunately i have skin in this game, so it makes me look a bit differently. but taking sides and cheering right now it's too soon and i hope that russia loses, but i don't know. if i had to choose between russia losing in this ending quickly, i would just say and it quickly, because it is tragic. these are two countries with extreme similarity is in their lives and histories and religions. vladimir putin always wanted ukraine, we know that, that's not even debatable. if that is the end game, than what is our end game? do we fight for the ukrainian freedom our goal back to the question which is who are they more important to you? russia or us? >> jesse: i'm sorry to hear that you have family there. >> greg: it's my mother-in-law, so technically? it's a joke. >> jesse: we go to trey yingst in kyiv what the latest. >> i've got you now coming

tonight volodymyr zelensky is calling on the international community to close the airspace over ukraine, seen more air attacks. an air raid sirens sending out into bomb shelters, and because of can some concerning technology indicating there is a 17-mile long convoy of russian troops, logistics troops and ground forces headed towards the capital of kyiv just 15 miles outside the city as we speak. this is significant as the air and ground campaign against the capital and other major cities the second largest ukrainian city continues. we do know also the civilians are preparing for the worst. they have seen over the weekend a direct impact from this war, missile slamming into an apartment building killing at least two people i many women and children are waiting out in hospitals and other facilities they hope won't be targeted. some heartbreaking images of

mothers waiting with their children in these facilities and the words of one really standing out amid the midst. listen to what she had to say. >> we have received all of the medicine we need and we are running out of food. local charities have promised to bring some. we are hoping they will come and bring us spread for some children. >> they come amid the backdrop of peace talks along the border and belarus between the ukrainians and russians to start what they look like. ukrainian showing up wearing military fatigue, the russian suit and ties. we know that the ukrainian president is calling for the airspace to be closed over the country and wants them to stop so that his forces have a better shot at winning the war. back to you. >> jesse: thanks, trey. it's so similar to last week we saw it coming towards the capital and is not going as fast.

i think as the russians thought it would be, but as you can see from the reporting they are going in and they are amassing around the city. at this point it's just a matter of how long can the people there hold out and can volodymyr zelensky survive the insurgency? speak of the amazing part of it is that the ukrainian people have been incredibly strong. they have taken russia and the world by surprise and i think it speaks to the issue of the comments that zielinski is just a comedian that ran for office? patriotism is not something defined by being a politician. as a patriot to you can be determined and you can love your country and you can lead your people to fight. and that's exactly what we are seeing. do you craniums are freedom loving people. and to a certain extent i agree with what you say and that it is what we can see as a family fight. one of my best friends is to from russia, but her mother was born in ukraine.

so they are part of the same kinship they are. but you see, this is an anything that we can look at and say, oh, let them do their thing. this is about raw power going after the map of europe. i know we are seeing for the first time since world war ii russian tanks on the plains of europe. and they will not stop here. they will continue to go. so the question is, you know, it is vladimir putin holding back? is he doing the 1100 military installations not affecting the infrastructure because he wants to occupy and use the infrastructure? and if he intentionally going a little slower, but is he now saying, these people are stronger than i thought. now i'm going to hit civilians? we will see. >> jesse: of course they have screwed up supply lawns and the strategy, because the russians are usually sloppy and slow, but brutal, katie. then i think we gave the ukrainians a bunch of stingers for the very first time and our javelins are having some effect.

>> katie: greg brings up the question of who is ukraine more important to the united states or russia? and the president believes that it is important to the ukrainian people wanting to be their sovereign country. he and he is wrestling russians being born in ukraine, ukrainians be there, the speech when he spoke in russian directly to the russian people and said we are two different countries, but we share many different cultures and we can live next to each other in peace and we don't want this war. and you are seeing a number of thousands of people protesting the streets against what vladimir putin has done. now there is a question about what his frame of mind is. we don't know. people are calling him crazy. we don't know what he is thinking. but we have a history of the way that he has behaved in other parts of the world and what he has gotten away with in places like syria. the reports of using cluster bombs for example does not bode well for what is to come. however, you are seeing this

resupply of the ukrainian military from places like germany who have been giving arms to anybody for decades for obvious reasons. so the ukrainian people are clearly the ones who are not fighting, not making molotov cocktails. the ones in the basements in a raw, pure, human time of survival and time is running out when it comes to getting supplies, water, and food and watching orphanages is just heartbreaking. but i think that in terms of the question of who it matters who right now, people are fighting in the streets and they are going to hold out as long as they can and as long as they have the military ability to do so. in the 17-mile long convoy you are seeing seems like a good target for the jets they are about to get from the e.u. we'll see how that goes. the fighting spirit is admirable. speak of the convoy just blasted to smithereens. do you think that putin underestimated the veracity of the civilian population and the patriotism to stand up and

fight? >> i think he has, my prayers go out and the best to your mother-in-law and family on the ground. but i think this is important to people who believe in the independence of freedom, this is a sovereign line he has crossed. there is a lot of pain and a lot that we have to wrestle with here. you think about where we are. we are closer to the ending of what people want and it's still painful to get there, but i think that we are closer to where we want and those that would like to see him removed, maybe even remove from power in russia. think about this, and the miscalculation putin has made may cost him power in his own nation and the opportunity to lead his own nation. number one, number two, greg, part of what you were saying was leading since the architecture there. this is not a history lesson, going after '94 what we have invested, and these people not only in ukraine but all across europe have the marshall plan to where we are today. going all the way to building an

architecture that based on independence and freedom of democracy. without question the most surprising thing has been the ukrainian desire to own their own land and their own freedom and to own their own futures. and i can only hope that what we are doing, what germany is doing and what nato is doing and others in terms of fighting the sources and even weaponry, we can make sure it happen sooner. it is about what is happening now. my prayers are with them and i hope that they use the transition in a way to not only repel vladimir putin, but to propel their democracy and their independence even more. >> jesse: straight ahead, the world reuniting to punish vladimir putin with crippling new sanctions.

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>> greg: american ally slapping more sanctions on russia, vladimir putin and his economy, the latest target is the central bank and limiting its ability to make financial transactions. the currency hit an all-time low and its stock market is closed today after crashing. europe also very united in the e.u. shutting down its airspace to russian planes. also sending ukraine military aid. so harold, if it is possible that vladimir putin is leaving his country and he was a north korean future, he has no friends to play with anymore, he likes to travel. he can't travel. there's no sports team. there's no world cup. this is literally what -- if you want to be the next north korea he just chose that path. >> harold: one thing the russian people will probably have to decide in the near turn, not the oligarch, but the people that live in the russia is how do you want to live? do you want to pay two times,

three times, four times for what you want to buy because you are losing value because the central bank can't borrow on the open market? do you want to country where your energy is crippled because you can't sell any and you can't turn on anything? for the first time a generation and once telling them what it was, at the end of the day, if they want any nation on the block to be like russia, and then have them do something that makes them want to be like russia, not go on and invade them, our ideas are winning and i think that that bothers him more than anything. what he has done, connection makes your idea win more amongst the russian people than anything he could've done attacking or spending more money. this may be a great move for the ideas of independence and

democracy. >> the only thing i have to push back is that hashtags are not the same as bombs. we do fall in love with the spirit of these things. but they have the bombs. when we were talking about at the break, the russians got a ton of stuff. >> i've not seen a lot of the russian air force, when that comes and it will be a different air escape. so i'm happy to see the europeans wake up over the weekend. it looks like because russia had to advance as rapidly as expected on the capital amber on the phone. you might not hear from me again. that's not a facing of reality these are tough sanctions. the swift sanctions are strong and there is a carve out for energy transactions of course and when the germans decided to send weaponry and double their defense spending and two years i was excited and then i remembered what happens when the germans ramp-up military. so that gives people some flashbacks so hopefully that can

be balanced out. the attacks against the oligarchs, who knows if that will work. they are targeting private jet seems to be good. and they will not like commercial aircraft's fly over there. it so i guess people will be eating at home for a while. to the attack against the central bank seems to be the most devastating if you are holding russian government debt that is like a drunk bomb. that's worse than a junk bond. so i don't know what they are going to do. but that's pretty strong. the food problems could be serious, because the last time they could not export, i think they had the arab spring, and that's who purchases all of the russian and ukrainian wheat, there is abandonment and everybody went wild, that something to look out for. if they respond to this, all of these crippling sanctions with cyber and even cutting the underwater cables that deal with our internet, that could get really crazy. hopefully it does not escalate to that.

>> greg: even switzerland thanks to russia! and oligarchs have $11 billion. i think it's 11 billion, making the 11 billion pounds. maybe gold bars. they can't get them, everything is connected. they are going to have to get rid of him if they want the money back. >> katie: you know that there has been an awakening when switzerland and sweden are getting involved with the banking and the sanctions on the money to not make money off of what is going on. it's interesting to look at this from a perspective of years russia has been used as a political point, ukraine as corrupt playground for elite to go and get rich under joe biden include n. and now it's all coming home from what is actually happening here and europe seems to be waking up. you have germany with the 2% paying more. and looking at the map again. paying more all along. it taken the russia threat seriously, pillow slim and

poland, lafayette, croatia, and now you have western european countries going, this is actually a real thing that we are going to have to deal with. it so you have seen europe come together and now you're seeing finland wanting to join nato. so you see this effort by putin to limit nato expanding including volodymyr zelensky with the request to join the european union. so here it goes. certainly creating unity among the europeans which we have not seen in a long time. >> do you think that -- he asked irrational, but there is a part that he saw this, and is ready to endure this like the bear he is. >> we will talk about that a little bit later in the show, but one of the ironies. >> greg: let's talk about it now, judge. >> jeanine: no, i want to talk about one of the ironies and i will ask you about it. but one of the ironies is that vladimir putin did not go in and succeed as quickly as he did.

he gave the west the opportunity to coalesce and even as you say to get switzerland, finland, everyone in the west is involved and so his hesitation or his effort whatever it is because he is holding back and some of the painful feels, or because he thought he would save the infrastructure is to our benefit and to his detriment. and now with these financial sanctions, the guy is in real trouble. in trouble with his own people. in trouble with the ukrainians that family in russia. and i'm not so sure the guy has his game on right now. but for him to jump to let's get nuclear alert status what has jumped to that. >> greg: that's in the next segment, judge. it's called a t's. very clever, judge. all right. up next, as russia threatens nuclear war and new concerns,

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>> jeanine: troubling signs that vladimir putin has lost his mind after putting forces on alert, officials who have directly interacted with the russian president are raising concerns about his mental health. and they worry that the pandemic may have cut him off from reality. >> i met with him many times. and this is different, he was always calculating and cold, but this is different. he seems erratic. >> lucas tomlinson is in live eve, lucas. >> well, judge, just a week ago that president putin had that long historical rant at the white house twisting history. always has considered ukraine and russia one country. and things that people are one and recalled that when the soviet union broke up, he wanted

to put it back together. those borders and the russian empire come out falling to 1654. the fact to his erratic speeches and they think he is completely insane talking about the victimhood that is part of the problem. look at what he did with raising the nuclear forces good it's worth discussing nuclear forces people wondering if it erases its status. u.s. military always keeps an alert for 400 nuclear missiles in the ground in north dakota, wyoming, parts of nebraska. those missiles are on alert. 70% of the nuclear arsenal showing the summary and eat boasting that it is booming in the atlantic pacific territory trying the international missiles that has up to eight independent warheads, 475 megatons to give you an idea of the bombs the united states drop in japan about 15 megatons. that's what the united states is doing with half the race of the

nuclear posture. part of the calculus is this russian doctor and about escalating to de-escalate. would you use a lower nuclear warhead about 15-20 megatons very similar to what u.s. drops in the japanese were were two. to be on think so much, i will go to you, harold. if america were to race the alert status, does that put them in an even more isolated position then he arty feels he is in? >> may be, but remember that he said in the power status it's always raised, we are prepared. i listen to bob gates over the weekend, h.r. mcmaster, those who have met with him and they all go through points, you think about the mental state, mental health expert, but you have to think at some level he thought that even if he is raising the nuclear level, who is he raising

it towards? family members in ukraine. not towards the west. if we had six weapons and not to suggest that sending weapons faster or balancing it earlier could've been the right thing or wrong thing, but had we done it he might have been able to suggest he was fighting with us and raising his status he was going to use the weapon against us. he is threatening to use it against ukrainians. because they have the gall to say to him, no. please leave our country, we are sovereign nation and independent and free and we don't want you here. he is running the risk at some of our substance bleeding over here of crippling his country for decades to come. try not to cripple the infrastructure of ukraine, but he is going to cripple the infrastructure of his own nation in ways he never contemplated weeks ago. >> jeanine: okay, jesse, he believes that the russian empire should be back and redraw the lines of europe. so as he sits there and as

everyone has indicated in more isolation than ever, is this kind of man who does not care about his own country and only cares about bringing everything back into the motherland and ussr map lines? >> jesse: he cares about the motherland and that has always been a group of many, many different ethnicities stretching from asia all the way to europe. it's an empire, the last real empire. and it is dying, because everybody is old in that country. so in about 20 to 30 years the empire will disintegrate anyway. and his calculation as am i going to be the russian leader that oversees the decline of the russian motherland? he does not want to do that. this is the last gas of the old empire. so he has to expand. and he has to go and take ukraine. he has to take the baltics he has to push south towards the black sea, that's always been the strategy. you can tell when people say he

is crazy, he has been planning this invasion for 15 years. he goes into georgia and takes crimea in the eastern provinces and has a puppet to come north to south. you can see this coming a mile away. i don't think anything switched during the covid pandemic. this was the strategy all along. >> jeanine: about greg. what jesse is saying is accurate is that it has been a long and calculated mission for him to actually do this, it's not just george. it's not just crimea, it's what he did in syria and forcing people who opposed him, is he holding back or is this his calculated decision to take time to get to where he wants to be? >> greg: i don't know, but what jesse said i completely agree, he wants a legacy which is to return russia to

greatness, so that undermines the entire narrative. he is not crazy, that's a purely rational desire for somebody who loves this country. if people hear me say that they are like outcome my god, he is appeasing him, no, i'm just not trying to read his mind and say that he is crazy. i'm trying to look at his actions and see what he is doing. it does not matter if he is crazy, and fact it's better if your enemy thinks you are crazy, right? i don't think he is crazy. i'm looking at what he is doing, i think this is what his end game is and that's it. >> jeanine: if you are an autocrat for 20 years and are increasingly isolating yourself, people say yes for 20 years, that does not mean that you have lost your mind or that you don't know what you are doing. >> katie: i do think that he has this view as ukraine as an immediate post-civil era where everybody will be happy with him rolling in and saying we are part of russia, let's all be

friends and hang on. >> jeanine: how does he feel today with the push back? >> katie: i don't know how he feels but i do know that he has said things about reinstating the soviet union and you listen to what he said on the speech the night that he talked about the peacekeepers going into ukraine, he talked about expanding the soviet union. we have seen the behavior doing that. i don't think he is crazy. i think that he has a different perspective on the world that is not a western perspective and is perfectly fine with murdering innocent civilians which is not something that western leaders believe in. he has a different frame of mind in the way that he approaches things, but if you think about what his objectives are and threatening nuclear war, he thinks he has a toolkit and that he is going to use it to meet that objective. and one more thing about what harold said in terms of him threatening the west, he has. he threatened it in the speech he gave about the invasion, he said if he continues to not get weapons there will be a cost of that. we are told that there could be a cyber attack against us.

which wide the way nato decided that cyberattacks constitute article five being invoked, so that's a whole nother issue as well. i don't think he's crazy, i just think he approaches it. >> harold: i want to be on record saying he is crazy and a war criminal. >> jeanine: pushing to ramp up oil production to russia, what they plan to do instead next. three children. ruthann and i like to hike. we eat healthy. we exercise. i noticed i wasn't as sharp as i used to be. my wife introduced me to prevagen and so i said "yeah, i'll try it out." i noticed that i felt sharper, i felt like i was able to respond to things quicker. and i thought, yeah, it works for me. prevagen. healthier brain. better life.

>> katie: welcome back, the white house ramping up oil production, despite prices for americans, the biden administration says it has other plans. >> we need to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, oil in general and look at other ways of having energy in our country and others. one of the interesting thing is have seen over the last week or so is that a number of european countries are recognizing that they need to reduce their own

reliance on russian oil. >> katie: is on this the reason we are in the situation in the first voice, because european countries and the united states are fine with not drilling here, we will go somewhere else. >> greg: i've been waiting for the segment for days, this is the irony of letting children like greta thunberg take a self space in your brain. think about all of the adults that took her opinion over the business and fracking are drilling on the necessity of coal and every country. how dare you! remember that! maybe she will drop solar panels and see people. china and russia are laughing at us when we were allowed to be lecturers on world affairs by a 14-year-old. oil is a world affair, energy is a world affair, fuel is a world affair. we need to wake up and get back in that the nuclear world and the ideology, putting us in a

hole for many decades and is probably the greatest fuel that we will ever see. the sooner we get back to nuclear, we were almost energy independent, remember the good old days? >> yes. >> of the white house was asked again why sanctions have not been placed on the energy sector in russia. let's listen to the tape. >> we have not taken some steps on energy sanctions in part because we way that. it does not mean that they are off the table, that remain on the table, sanctioning energy would impact to the income stream, that's a reason to do it. but it would be extreme consequences on the energy market. >> so in october 2021 right before the climate change conference of the party, joe biden stood up and said russia needed to pump more oil. less than a year ago. six months ago. >> agenda saying that she doesn't want to slap sanctions on the russian energy sector because it might increase the price at the pump for americans.

it's already $3.60 a gallon, jen, how much more can we take? >> greg: dropped the tax. >> jesse: you could stop importing russian oil right now and it would be an embargo on venezuela oil. so you keep it stable, just do that. even trade or keep it the western hemisphere. let's do a little example about how supply and demand works. and this is from someone who is not an economist. if there is demand for energy, what is she going to do? where's the green energy supply, jen? where's the green energy supply? are you able to make the wind blow harder? are you able to make the sunshine brighter? no. the supply is oil and gas, that's where the supply is. you can just wait -- okay. we can build more windmills and solar panels that will take a

decade or two. that takes a long time to do. right now we can drill and explore and flood that market with the u.s. gas and oil and that's what's going to make us a little safer here in america. >> katie: you need oil to get the drug miles in the panels, but judge, isn't the pain the point that they are trying to squeeze americans to say the alternative energy is not for that? >> definitely is the point. i'm one of the skeptics. but here's what happened. and 2021 when joe biden came in, he is the one that made russia the top source of gasoline and the refined petroleum for the united states, joe biden did that. he is the one who shut down the keystone pipeline. joe biden is the one who now is pushing us towards the green energy nonsense because it is not nonsense, it's a good thing. it'll be great. but he has been holding to aoc and the left-wing marxist progressives and in the end he

wants us all and electric cars so that we can be reliance on china and be a battery. it don't you just see? they are pushing for it these people. >> katie: there were thoughts about them being beholden to the climate change even when it is not working out. >> i'm fascinated by the conversation, looking at people of space, so you stomp it. but we consumed 20 and a half barrels of oil in the united states, 42 gallons a barrel which means we consume over 850 million gallons of gasoline in this country a day. now that number needs to come down. in middle of a war posture, we should think long and hard about producing stuff that will endanger us or for that matter risk our chances and jeopardize her chances of helping the ukrainians when the effort. i am one that believes we can have a clean energy future are not the same time recognize that when you get on an airplane you are not looking for wind and solar battery coming have to

have the fossil fuel. so democrats, republicans alike have to understand that. we have to figure out if we are not using 20 and a half billion barrels of oil, but when we are i know that this war did not start because we were importing, we have been doing that for a while. i hope that we are able to wean ourselves off of it and more importantly have a cleaner future for all of us. >> katie: the refugee crisis escalates in ukraine as citizens decide whether to fight or flee. ♪ ♪ as a professional bull-rider

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>> harold: a staggering humanitarian crisis in ukraine, over 1,100,000 refugees have left the country, expected to go into the millions, but some are returning to ukraine, benjamin hall in ukraine right now, benjamin. >> good morning, guys. over the last 40 minutes or so, i just want to say what an important thing it is to look at two sides of the conflict, you have on the ground the human cost in the military operation and the geopolitical element. dependent on gas, what china is doing, it's so important to look at both. what i see any mention numbers, half a million potentially that will continue to flee the country, but those are numbers, what we see today is putting

faces to the people and the women and the children who have left absolutely everything that they have seen, their homes and their livelihoods, their friends to flee their country. it is heartbreaking. anyone who did not see the conflict coming until just a few days before hand they were told that it won't happen or might happen but were not properly prepared. getting to the border 40 miles long, sometimes they take it across the train and totally impossible. you have seen the videos with women, children, desperately trying to get out. and the men, 18%, you need the pushback told that they have to stay inside, and they do, they all want to stay. 40 million people resisting saying that they want to stay and fight the russians coming on the other thing here is that when they look for the occupation is not going to be as easy as he has taken the capital city and controlling the country. there will be an uprising and a resistance. we have seen people who will be a key part of that resistance over the coming year.

if vladimir putin waits in the coming days or weeks or months, this does not turn there it keeps going on. and not spread and instability around europe it spreads around the world. and so we have to continue keeping two things in mind. the serious implications of what is happening here, one country rolling across the border into europe and the way that we have seen since world war ii and the bigger picture. doing a good job of doing that today and i want to add that i'm very grateful and the 11:00 hour to focus on this. we intend to bring up both sides today and really get into the nitty-gritty of this war and try to bring our viewers all sides as we have been talking about today. >> harold: things, we have some questions for you, you have taken great good, we will let you go with the first question. >> greg: how are russians being created the women treated? it's a selfish question because my mother-in-law is russian and i guess as a refugee.

every refugee treated the same? >> you know, one of the first things we spoke to across the border into ukraine where the russians who were trying to file slim exley and said he no longer feel safe here, they are being persecuted and it's harder an award of blame just the leader. there is a feeling that the russians are to blame. and we see the resistance that say that russians have had 22 years to rise up against ida mae putin if they wanted to. they said that they did that right after the soviet union, so they are saying there has to be some consistency when the russians have not done that. so yes, there is going to be some persecution of russians. and when you look at the makeup of the country, so many parts of the east of the country are russian speaking. and s vladimir putin said, those are his historically russian areas and that will be one of the things that we look at in the future. but it's one of the settings to see, yes, russians will be feeling that. >> katie: benjamin, katie

pelletier coming on the back stage side at the state department, have we heard anything about what they are trying to do to help the refugees and take them and come up canada was debating whether to allow ukrainians into the country without a visa. other countries are looking at requirements, have you heard anything about what our state department is doing? >> the state department who obviously for some months leading up to the invasion did everything to try and find a diplomatic route, you remember secretary blinken traveling back and forth to europe, and saying the diplomatic programs were always there. you find a diplomatic solution, right up until the end that was open and as soon as russia invaded they said we finally realized that that was all a flaw in the spokesman said it was a head fake. so the kind of close that door and said for now we don't really have faith in the diplomatic process or that russia will negotiate in good faith. we are seeing it today in belarus and will see a continuation at some point. but i can tell you that speaking to the people here on the

ground, they have absolutely no faith in the war front now. they are certain that vladimir putin has made that move i made up its mind and not going to turn around now because of some one side or the other agreed upon. >> harold: live coverage from ukraine at 9:00 p.m. eastern. thank you. more breaking news on ukraine next. . .

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come the mercenaries the next 48 hours could be ugly. >> judge jeanine: putin is not a stupid man. i don't even take a position with whether he is crazy or not crazy because the truth is that he has got a visionenned he has got money and power and he is going to follow through. but as john kirby said, he still has significant combat power. so, whether or not his lows spread into ukraine is due to the fact that he want to preserve the infrastructure because he is indeed, you know, looking to occupy as opposed to put in a new president. then it would all make sense. it depends on how angry he is. i don't know him. >> jesse: your sense of what happens in kyiv tonight. >> i hope for the best. ukrainian people have shown great resolve and resistance. i hope they continue to show it and they are able. to say the one thing people being penalized most second to the ukrainians are the russian people. >> jesse: don't know what's

going on according to their media. >> a lot of people are being killed and we are not seeing it. >> jesse: we don't know for sure. we are praying for everybody in ukraine and all of our reporters there and hope for a quick cessation of the hostilities although it doesn't look like that's going to happen. that's it for us tonight. "special report" suspect next with bret baier. >> bret: all right. thanks, jesse. good evening, welcome to washington, i'm bret baier. breaking tonight, the largest land war in europe since world war ii rages on tonight in ukraine. russian forces continue to meet stiffer than expected resistance as they attack the capital of kyiv and across the country where success in various areas for the russians is short lived because of resilient ukrainian defense forces. meanwhile, diplomats from the two nations met today along ukraine's border with belarus. not much concrete that we heard to come from that, but they do plan to continue talks. russian leader vladimir putin has placed