five seconds. >> there is no doubt he's more dangerous but he's even more dangerous if he's able to plow through and conquer kyiv and ukraine. >> trace: great to have you on, john hannah, continuing coverage of breaking news the war on ukraine, fox & friends first.>> breaking right now, se ukrainian cities under attack. massive explosion rocking kharkiv. you are watching "fox and friends first," i'm carley shimkus. >> todd: i'm todd piro. 40 mile long russian convoy closes in on the ukrainian capital, ready to launch a bloody battle for kyiv. we are bringing team coverage. we are standing by.

>> carley: start with mike tobin live in lviv, ukraine. what is the latest? -- >> mike: we are watching the attack of an administrative building. we are told that was attempted assassination. aftermath shows a building that took a great hit with a great ball of flames. great damage to the structure, no word on casualties. in the city of kharkiv, subject to unrelenting and indiscriminate rocket attack. rockets falling down within the urban population, best we can tell you, there are dozens of civilian casualties in kharkiv. headed south from the belarus battle they are heading to the capital city of kyiv. beyond that with satellite, we are getting information

additional attack helicopters and infantry on northern side of the border on the belarus side. beyond that, one thing you can see is the unity that is coalescing against the russian in this particular effort. 19 countries are now donating weaponry, contributing to the ukrainian resistance, that includes the united states, among other things the united states donated. javelin anti-tank weapons that use thermal imagery to zoom in on a target and armor piercing. remarkable in this list is germany, germany had laws that prevented them from selling or donating weaponry, sending any weaponry to conflict zone. now we have about face from the germans in the form of a thousand anti-tank weapons and 500 stingers, that are surface

to air missiles and hand held, useful for the ukrainians, they can zoom in on aircraft. they use infrared imagery to zero in on targets and presumably, they can be useful to ukrainians in terms of taking them out of the sky. a very long list, lots of unified resistance to what the russian are doing now. beyond that, looking to the city in the south with a bridge over the dnieper river river where it is ongoing. carol how far away is that 40-mile-long convoy and will the weapons get to ukraine in time? >> >> mike: we don't have update as far as the convoy headed to kyiv. we know they have to go through a choke point, that will create a traffic jam, advantage for the

ukrainians, if nothing else they have time to set up. stands to reason that it would be an opportunity to strike that convoy as they get slowed down. in terms of weapons getting to the ukrainians, you don't see presence of many to the -- where refugees are going out and weapon consist come in. >> carley: have you been reporting on the area of mariupol, this area is in southern ukrainian near the black sea, if russia gains access to them, they would be able to use the black sea to ship in equipment, supplies, everything they need to continue this battle. didn't turkey say they would prevent russian airships from entering the black sea or has that change? ed >> mike: turkey said that and got praise out of ukraine's

president, but went back on that, that is muddy. you do already have pre-placed russian naval force in the sea of azov and black sea. >> carley: so many moving pieces to the story, thanks for covering it, we appreciate it. >> todd: bret baier giving a close look at what comes next for kyiv as that massive convoy closes in. listen. >> bret: that convoy is just on the outskirts of this and making its way this way, 15 miles from the city, the issue for the russians, there are only two main ways to get into the city center, one is here and one is here. they both come to a choke point. we're told the ukrainians are using anti-tank missiles, javelins and taking out exhibit that comes in from this obolon district to the north. that is what this convoy has ran

into, attack by ukrainian defense forces. if it is 40 miles long as suggested, if you look at images, you can see the line of vehicles and armored personnel carriers goes for miles and miles russian will have a lot of people to throw at the city of kyiv. >> todd: -- did three tours as member of special operations. seth, thank you for being here. we got a pretty good state of play as to where we are right now. compare this experience to afghanistan, you were in afghanistan, what parallels do you see between how joe biden handled afghanistan and how he's handling ukraine? >> that's a good question, this is what happens when you have politicians making decisions on matters they are not equipped to make. you see strategic minds and experience in the military leaving to the contracting room and i say that as an american

involved in war for nearly 17 years. we're not warmongers, but sick of inept leaders and parallels we're seeing in the catest officeree of foreign policy regarding afghanistan withdrawal and contractor reaction is comparable and sim larp. >> carley: most people are fleeing ukraine, we hear you are heading there this week. what will you be doing there and why did you decide to go? >> carley: that's a tough one. a part of me from just i'm conflicted as far as being an american, first and foremost, impressed with the bravery of ukrainians. i want what most americans want, to see peace and brisk resolution. we're going there in noncommitted capacity to help facilitate the evacuation from

amset and other high value individuals into safe spaces. >> todd: your specialty is counter intel, anything standing out to you about using countser intelligence through this past week? >> so counter intelligence is identifying insider threats to exploit foreign and adverse aerial threats to your individual country's national security there is always some concerns there when you have neighboring countries and a lot of citizens that share citizenship between russians and ukrainians, that will always be a concern, yes, absolutely. >> carley: seth, do you think that the united states should close ukrainian air space? this is a big conversation right now f. it happens, what does that mean? the u.s. would be shooting russian airplanes out of the sky?

>> it's terrifying to think about, we forfeited significant opportunity of posterring in a way that could have served as deter sxent provided diplomatic solution. when you have commander-in-chief who tells opposition what the u.s. will and won't do, it creates a val over an avenue of peace and emboldens the opposition. putin was saying i'll send our delegates to conduct the fruitless negotiations, but i'm going to do what i'm going to do, because he's been provided information from biden there will be no significant repercussions. i don't think he anticipated neutral countries within nato taking such strong position in reformation to foreign policy, particularly germany. i think they bolstered their

military by 87 billion, but the economic blowback from collective sanctionss are going to be significant for russia. >> carley: we're seeing it unfold right now. seth, stay safe in ukraine. we'll check in with you soon. >> thank you so much. thank you, guys. >> carley: 500,000 ukrainians fleeing the country since the invasion began. >> todd: an international court opens up a war crime investigation. greg is live in london with the latest. >> the human toll of the russian invasion into ukraine is throwing, 520,000 ukrainians have fled, mostly women and children, mostly going to holand, hungary and romania. they are greeted with shelt sxer food. it is good thing, officials believe there could be four million more coming just in the

coming weeks. train stations in the western ukrainian city of lviv jammed, long traffic jams and people walking long distances for a reason. listen to this woman. >> we're scared of war, what will be left and everything. just run away. >> we left everything and just ran away. ukrainian president zelenskyy trying to tap in on this feel-good move, making application for immediate ark sension of his country to the european union. russian president vladamir putin firmly oshg posed and following carpet bombing of northeastern city of kharkiv, international criminal court say there is a reasonable basis to believe that war crimes and crimes against humanity have been committed by russia in recent days. civilian death toll including women and children set to top

400. as seen, there is a new massive plast in kharkiv, that column of troops and vehicles headed toward kyiv, could be more trouble on the way. back to you. >> todd: one of ukraine's biggest rock stars and urging united front against russia and putin. >> carley: that artist joins us now. good morning. tell us why you decided to join in the fight. >> i didn't decide anything, i just do what i need to do. i'm ukrainian, all ukrainians are now fighting against russian aggression and we are ready and focused and will fight to the end, until the last boot of russian soldier will be out of our land. >> todd: you sang "everything will be fine" in effort to support your people. why are you confident ukrainians will win in the end? >> first of all, i'm confident, i believe in god and justice.

i think that we are on just side. svyatoshgslav va karchuk. we are impressed by the international support we get everyday coming, more and more everyday. more you support us, bigger chance that we win sooner and it is very necessary to do it because you see russians are selling our cities, destroying and killing our people, women and children, this is a massacre, probably the biggest war crime since world war ii. we are now on the virge of defending the whole democracy. it is not only about ukraine. today it is ukraine and worst case we don't win, they gallon further. we saw it in 1939. we don't want to see it anymore.

urge america and the free world to stand with us right now. hard sanctions, money you can give, military aid, everything counts. >> carley: you are getting prayers, ukrainians are getting prayers from all over the world. here in america, we stand with you 100% and hope cufeel that. yesterday the united states did freeze the russian central bank assets, you have an idea where the money should be directed, tell us about that. >> directed to help ukraine after the war is over. it should be used as former reparation and that is absolutely just. moreover, having opportunity to say to you, i don't know if you can pass this message to your government, but maybe hear us, block visa and mastercard, ordinary russians need to have motivation to go in the street,

massively go to the street and squares. they are still afraid of doing that f. their life becomes unbearable in the meaning of economic mean, they will have motivation to stop putin. they can do it now. it is not only about ukraine and western world but also about russia. their mothers will get their children back, not safe and sound, but you know in -- and we don't want that. if they come, our army will do what they need to do and are doing it all the time. >> carley: amen. >> todd: seeing little by little, each and everyday, look at moscow on the screen, the pressure is building on the russian people, more and more financial engines being taken away from them little by little. interesting to see if your visa and mastercard idea takes hold.

we appreciate your efforts, thank you for what you are doing. thank you for joining us. >> i hope when we win, to see all of you at our concert at madison square garden. >> todd: we'll be first there, front row. >> carley: get us some front row tickets. >> you got it. >> i would take back row to be there. absolutely. president biden is reassuring americans there is no real threat of nuclear war as u.s. prepares further action against russian aggression in ukraine. >> the white house considers putin's nuclear threats to be posturing. president biden's response was plain. listen. >> mr. president, should americans be worried about nuclear war? >> president biden: no. >> classified briefing held between top security officials and senator,they laid out the direction they expect this

invasion to take. >> it is war to terrorize the population and the worst is yet to come in that regard. >> when you see the bravery of ukraine and zelenskyy, they are risking everything. >> i wish president biden, along with presidents before him, would have provided great deal more defensive capability to the people of ukraine. they are not in such a deep disadvantage as they are. >> yesterday ukraine ambassador to u.s. pleaded with lawmakers for more weapons and aid, request for the no fly zone over the country is not realistic, according to the white house. >> press sect. psaki: it would require u.s. military to enforce, which would be direct conflict and potentially war with russia, something we are not planning to be a part of. >> u.s. expelled 12 russian diplomats from the united nations for security concerns.

republicans introduced joint resolution demanding russia lose a seat on the security council. the russian foreign minister is taking issue with protesters there. carl and he todd. >> carley: and ronny jackson says the u.s. needs to walk a thin line between helping ukraine and starting war with russia. >> there will come a point where we are hoshg ff -- walking a thin line. you have to wonder if there will come a point where putin decides we are in the fight, as well, and makes some aggressive move toward troops in poland or romania and it involves a nato country and we're fully committed at that point. we need to take those serious. he is a desperate man, which scares me, he will do just about

anything to win this fight at this particular point now. >> todd: and president biden is getting flowing praise from the "new york times" over handling of russia war in ukraine ahead of today's state of the union. dizzying events have pushed squabbling over president biden agenda and redefining the arc of his presidency. bold statement there. they praise joe biden after putin launched his attack and list brown jackson's nomination and falling covid cases as victories. today's as we face record inflation and white house struggles to revive failed spending agenda. >> carley: texans head to the polls today. democrats in the state facing challenges within their own party as out of state progressives like alexandria

ocasio-cortez rally behind far left candidates to oust incumbents. visiting lone star state in february, two candidates clzing cisneros, hoping to defeat cuervar. two ideas that are not popular. ukraine's president accusing the -- excuse me, accusing russia of committing war crimes for the attack on helpless civilians in kharkiv. >> todd: next guest thinks chaos may prove deadlier than the invasion and could trigger world war iii. plus more analysis on the growing conflict with medal of honor recipient -- join us right now and brian brenberg will break it down and tomi tuesday,

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>> carley: welcome back, marco rubio speaking out on supply chain issues and nation's reliance on china.

listen. >> supply chain issue is vulnerability exposed by covid and will be exposed in the future and russia can't impose economic pain on america, china could. pull back on that or be more vulnerable to china than we have ever been to russia. >> carley: it could weaken the global supply chain. energy giant shell is calling it quits in russia and will end joint venture with gas prom, energy company. ending involvement in the nord stream 2, shell ceo writing "we are shocked by life in ukraine, which we deplore, resulting from senseless act of military aaggression, which threatening security. shell's interest valued 3 billion last year, the companies

abandoning will lead to drastic loss of assets. todd. >> todd: putting their money where their mouth is. russian troops mounting series of morning attacks 24 hours after the first round of peace talks. ukrainian president zelenskyy accusing russia of war crimes and accusing putin of using cluster and vacuum bombs on kharkiv, killing dozens of civilians. [explosions] >> todd: director of communications joins me now. thanks for being here. do you think putin will be brought up on war crime charges? >> from the very first day this is a war crime, the war crime is attacking your neighbor, that is what the united states prosecuted at end of world war ii. it was simply attacking your neighbor country, that is why we

found said the un. it is war crime and he should be prosecute said. >> todd: we heard about cluft sxer vacuum bombs, can you explain more detail to the dependent you know what the bombs do? >> they are specifically targeted to attack indiscriminately and in this case being targeted at civilian areas. they are weapons of terror, less so weapons of war. we heard from the yoouks /* yuks ukrainian government, in the span of 36 hours, 400 killed civilians, 16 children, this is who russia is targeting specifically to inflict terror on the ukrainian people so they give up, but that is not happening at this point. >> todd: if your goal to overthrow the government, you

don't go after the innocent , like putin is. you say the major food shortages we're seeing could lead to riots and government destabilizeing and that is what could start world war iii. what are you on the lookout for? >> this is what diplomats at united nations and that is why you hear africa speak forcefully in this engagement, kenya and ghana are worried about what is happening in ukraine, because ukraine, red basket of europe, really the bread basket of the world. ukrainian, especially country along the equator including africa, egypt and israel, lebanon gets 70% of grain. these countries, if there was a food stoppage, grain fields of ukrainian were destroyed and

hafrest lost or ports were bombed. as senator marco rubio mentioned, during supply chain issues it is impossible to find another source of food so quickly after that stopped and those governments, government lebanon, doesn't have full power issue leads to instability due to food riots. who knows how long the governments can last and people crossing the border and spiralling out of control. this is what is worrying the world government. >> cause of concern that not a lot of people are paying attention to, thank you for illuminating us. carley. >> carley: president biden first state of the union address overshadowed by outbreak of war overseas, what do americans need to hear from the commander-in-chief? medal of honor recipient dakota mier is next.

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>> todd: ukrainian second largest city rocked by russian air strike. searching debris of government build nothing kharkiv targeted in what is believed to be assassination attempt. people can be seen pleading for their lives. >> carley: battling russian troops outside several cities as 40-mile-long russian convoy closes in on the city of kyiv. mike tobin is latest in lviv with the latest. mike. >> michael: this new and very dramatic video of targeted strike on municipal building, dramatic. if you watch the video slow enough, you see the rocket come nothing and hitting this facility. aftermath shows how much destruction there was in this hit.

some sourcing on the ground is telling us this was attempt at targeted assassination. we don't have a word on casualties. unrelenting and indiscriminate rocket fire in the center of the urban population. what we know from casualty figures, they are in the dozens. west of the city of kharkiv, the town turka, military base there, reporting that was hit with an artillery shell. figures we have out of there around 70 dead in the ukrainian military from the strike on the base to the west of kharkiv. battle is underway in coastal town of kharkiv, focused on a bridge that stretches over the dnieper river connecting to the crimean peninsula.

they been fortifying armorment in the peninsula, trying to get across that bridge. that bridge is important. supply of fresh water perhaps as act of defiance, ukrainian built a dam that restricted flow of fresh water. there are reports russian have attempted to blowup that dam. beyond that, all eyes are now on this 40-mile-long convoy headed south from the belarus border. ominous sign that a major offensive could be taking place soon in the capital city of kyiv. carley and todd. >> todd: mike, is sense on the ground if russian troops don't get into cities quicker, the convoy notwithstanding, general sense you will see more strikes like you led off with, not very

targeted, hit a building and hope we get the guy we want as opposed to going in surgically with troops to accomplish that same goal? >> mike: russians have sophisticated armerment. those armorment are very precise and they are using precise womens and use what we saw in kharkiv. what that was, grad rockets. we've seen grad rockets uses a terror weapon because they are not accurate. you fling them in general area of population you want to terrorize. if you use it ethically, you soften the battle field or lay down skofrned earth so only thing there is combatant. they are firing into the center of the urban population, it is unethical and indeed appearing to result in great number of civilian casualties.

>> carley: any more information on the assassination attempt and who they were target something >> mike: no, i don't have information on that, we got word from contacts on the ground it was assassination attempt. >> carley: more to come. unbelievable footage. to a fox news alert. president biden will give first state of the union address tonight as he faces war in ukraine and multiple crisis here. >> todd: jackie ibanez is here. jackie. >> jackie: the russian invasion of ukraine is expected to be the primary focus of president biden's speech tonight, after democrats had hoped it is address could reset biden economic agenda. biden is expected to talk about soaring inflation, pandemic fatigue and embattled build back better agenda, topics are front and center for americans who largely disapprove of the

president's performance according to recent polling, including career low 37% from this abc "washington post" survey. recent fox news poll show mag jority of americans, 60%, say the country is worse off than a year ago and impacted by spiking inflation. congress lifting a mask requirement for members attending this speech. many americans are pandemic restrictions and taking heat in new poll over response to deadly russian invasion. quinnipiac showing 39% of americans approve of how the president is handling the crisis and democrats are hoping for a change in direction ahead of the midterm election, biden hear speeches from two members of his own party after his address. rashida tlaib will speak and alred on behalf of the congressional black caucus.

31 incumbent democrats say they will not seek re-election. making that announcement one day before biden's first state of the union. democrats hope the president can rally the nation behind him tonight and they hope to take back control of congress. >> todd: sacking your own president. jackie, thank you. >> carley: let's bring in dakota meyer. great to see you. we are hearing the president's state of the union address has been rewritten to reflect this ongoing situation in ukraine. what would you like to hear the president say tonight? >> dakota: thank you for having me. i would like to see the president come out and for once, since he's been in office, come out and put the american people's interest, obviously not doing things that makes inflation go through the roof

and also put interest of the globe before his political agenda. that is what has been the problem with everything before. this administration cannot put america first, they put their own agenda first xhchlt out and portray, get rid of, this is not the time to get political. not the time to be pushing political agenda. it is time to get serious, unite across the globe and america has to be the leaders on this in order to stop putin. >> carley: your thoughts on the latest situation going on in ukraine. dealing with this 40-mile-long tanker heading toward kyiv, how do ukrainians fight something like that off? >> dakota: you know, this thing will be decided, it will not be over. if he runs all the tanks up in

kyiv, it will not be over. he can get to the city issue get in there and get whatever building he wants inside of. we pushed through fallujah and had 20 years of insurgency, i don't know what the game plan is for putin. i don't know how he wins this, he can't sustain it. difference between going into iraq and afghanistan and you seen how that worked out for us, we didn't have the world against us. this point, putin has the world against us. what we got to be watching is what is china going to do. >> carley: such a big topic and we'll talk later on the show. your book, book with rob oshg'neal, "the way forward," and it is out today. congratulations on that front. tell us what the book is about. >> dakota: this book is about,

everybody is going through something, me and rob took our experiences, more about humanizing us and what we've gone through and how we keep facing forward. no matter what is going on, there is hope in people, not hope in other ideas in fighting and hate. hope and love and that is what this book is about and maybe we'll send a copy to putin, he will need it pretty quick. >> carley: i think that is what this country needs and countries around the world. congratulations on the book. >> todd: putin get a copy of that. americans who saved americans in afghanistan are on the ground in ukraine. we're talking to one of the heroes behind project dynamo next.

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>> carley: russia threatening treason charges and 20 years of jail time for any russian providing aid to ukraine. that threat after anti-war protests rage across russia.

6000 protesters have been arrested since thursday and 150 senior russian officials signed letter condemning putin's invasion as atrocity that could have catastrophic consequences. the snake island soldiers told a russian war ship to go f themselves, they are alive. the military lost contact with the border guards after the attack. ukrainian navy says the soldiers were captured and alive and are demanding their release. they will be sent back to ukraine following procedures. >> todd: bus loads of americans from ukraine. co-foungder of project dynamo joins us as his partner is in kyiv. matthew, thank you so much.

how are you getting these people out? >> the sense of urgency stepped up. we have four buses executing movement right now. not much changed, other than locations we are operating. had to move further outside the city. the cities are not yet surrounded, so we're still able to move people safely. we will continue to do so over the next couple of days. like i said, sense of urgency has been stepped up, shelling and targeting seems to be less discriminate over the last 24 to 48 hours. >> todd: what is the great est challenge you are face something >> we are low on fuel, condition of roads and obstacles taking us 20 hours to get from the city to the border. the borders are backlogged, just to get anything or get anywhere is taking a long time.

slow and steady. we're making progress. >> todd: how many more americans do you anticipate are left in ukraine? you can't get them all out, just ballpark number, your guesstimate? >> won't stop us from trying. we have 2000 and several hundred are americans off the top of my head, probably five or six hundred americans and americans with family that aren't necessarily american citizens and we'll move those together. no military aid due to conscription laws, only moving folks over the border and back home to where they belong. we'll be doing more movement after this one. >> todd: people on the ground there, they are not interns, these are military people who have been through it and know how to assess a war zone, what are you hearing from them on the ground? >> folks on the ground are

veterans, retired reservist issue they are not there in government capacity, we are civilian organization. reports are similar to what we are see og television, the rockets and artillery are becoming like i said less discriminate in targeting and folks are, civilians left in the city that might have the impression that this was going to happen around them are ark larmed and want out as quick as they can. >> todd: it is disturbing a group like yours is necessary, if i was in that situation, i would love to see your guys coming to rescue me. matthew herring, we appreciate your time and efforts, keep us posted how it is going and we appreciate what you do. >> carley: focusing on getting orphans ark way from the

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>> carley: breaking right now several ukrainian cities under attack. a massive explosion rocking a government building in kharkiv independence square. and batting for kherson. i'm carley shimkus. >> todd: i'm todd piro. 40-mile-long russian convoy closes in on the ukrainian capital, ready to launch a bloody battle for kyiv.