>> we begin with a fox news alert. the russia's campaign of terror. it marches on. moscow now escalating its attac on ukraine. the second largest city with very deadly results. now, date eight of the invasion. that is the bastion and despite a demand from the u.s. and moscow to stop the bloodshed, i

appears that the worst may be t come. it is 10:00 p.m. here, eight in the morning in the capital city of kyiv. now, the number and the thousands, there leader is urging their citizens to keep u the resistance. vowing that they will not have quiet morning. white house correspondent couri talk at the cannes pentagon, bu we begin with jonathan hunt, on the ground in the western ukrainian city which is not far from the good morning. >> good morning to you. we are entering day eight of this war now and the land sea and air assault by the russian military appears to be if

anything gathering pace. the southern city of kars on ha been the scene of intense fighting and russian forces say they are now in control of that suit strategically important safety. the mayor has confirmed that he met with russian forces when they arrived at the administrative building in that city. he asked them not to kill civilians and to allow ukrainians time to gather the bodies from the streets. the russian assault is also intense in the eastern city in than we are hearing by our fellow correspondent here that the russian warships are sailin across the black sea from the romanian peninsula peninsula towards odessa, that is another

strategically very important southern city. if you look at a map, if you think of the russians getting control of them, they would the effectively controlled the entirety of the south and they can push forward and complete that encirclement of kyiv further to the north. it appears if they were taking pulls over the last 24-48 hours now, they are now pushing forward intensely. i can tell you there is a feeling right across this the country, but very much, the worst is jet to come. >> very quickly here. we talked about this at the top you have this mass exodus, may be the biggest mass exodus of refugees this entry. is that your estimation that things are picking up moving across ukraine to the polish border of romania et cetera? >> it's extraordinary when you think that 1 million people hav left this country and just one

week of this conflict and certainly the flood of refugees continues by train, by vehicle on foot, however they can get outcome, but they are trying to. you imagine is this bombing and the fighting intensifies, that flood of refugees can only gather places to further. it is very apparent and since russia launched its brutal assault on ukraine when we coul go, severe economic sanctions have done little to deter the determination to claim the sovereign nation. now the eyes of the world focus toward nato. that 30 nation organization has pledged to help ukrainians by providing them with weapons but for now, nato won't get directl involved in open warfare with the nuclear powered russia for fear of how he.

>> he has been clear the u.s. troops won't fight russia and ukraine. if you establish a no-fly zone, certainly, in order to enforce that no-fly zone you have to engage russian aircraft and tha would put us at war with russia. former intelligence officer wit the defense intelligence agency. we have a lot to talk about here , but you believe that western countries need to get creative and cautious explained that if you would. >> thank you very much for having me. as you mentioned a few times fo a full week into the invasion and it's clear the political an strategic goals that hooton lai out when he announced the invasion of ukraine have not changed. despite sanctions from the west end economic upheaval within russia he has not changed his

goals of decapitating the government and which means that sanctions at least so far have failed and they have not worked. where we go from here is going to require countries to get creative and as the secretary o defense at the types of sanctions are the types of activities that would get russi to change its goals immediately are also the kinds of actions that would spark wars with russia. ukraine has announced their offering about $50,000 to each who surrenders for there are some in the west that suggested that some european countries could offer more incentives to russian soldiers such as money or possible uses to their countries. i think that's worth exploring. additionally, the united states and the united kingdom in particular we need to start targeting russian oligarchs.

targeting the wealthy friends though is the next step to put pressure on moscow to begin the all goals. is a juror thought that every single day that ukrainians can hold on, that it diminishes moscow to somerset extent? >> s, this is becoming a war of attrition. the ground appears to be wormin and the ukraine and the vast number of tanks and heavy armor are getting stuck in the mud which is one of the worst thing for an invading army only havin logistics cut. some media reports that scout i spending between 50 and $20 billion per day in ukraine. although that number seems high if true, russia entire defense budget was about $50 billion.

they can't continue the heavy ground invasion if there spending between $140 billion. that's four years worth of defense budget. they don't have much to show fo a. >> from the intelligence perspective when you talk about diminishing returns, it's not just resources in soldiers, wha about morale and public opinion does it also tend to wain the longer this war goes on? >> absolutely. the russians serving have a higher tolerance for that than we do in the west. these guys are 18-20 years old, they are hungry and want to go home so news reports of them being able to call if their parents in their family members and have the family members tal about what's going on, this is going to be a problem for president putin. from some reports i've seen it' that the milestone now, the military and the police are

starting to move in some heavy armaments to do crowd control because there are supposed to b or at least the threats of protest in moscow over the next few days. >> the frontline is. we appreciate your time. >> my pleasure, thank you very much. >> in the meantime the house of representatives overwhelming sleep past to support ukraine o wednesday. three republicans voted against it. many members of congress agree more must be done to help ukraine and cut off the ability of prudent to wage war. the research fellow at the hoover institution and a visiting fellow in the hell it aerated foundation. beyond sending weapons, we talked about this many times, beyond sending weapons and money , there appears to be right now in the midst of this, very

little of the west can do to help ukraine. >> i don't quite agree with abbott you mentioned the house resolution, it was almost unanimous, three members dissenting. the resolution itself condemned the invasion by russia and to support the resistance movement but something else was there that i think suggests that we are doing important work. i felt as though the west was o the move because there was a discussion again about freedom in in the 21st century, the first decade we focused on the global war on terror, the secon decade trying to figure out how to end that war and do somethin like a pivot to asia.

what we announced c is a reasserting of the west of the central organizing force or muc of the world. the rules -based liberal order. there is more discussion coming out of that house resolution, the senate resolution amongst the un general assembly resolution that was the majorit vote as well about the principles of political and economic freedom. that helps that ukrainians both spiritually, and then it will result in more support material support which i think is really important. i see where you're coming from. the condemnation. i get it when the un stands up there and they overwhelmingly condemn what's going on in the uk crane. you can get it when you have an international criminal core investigating. what i don't believe is happening, i don't think any of

this is bothering whom. i don't think he cares about th condemnation spread he's intent on what he's intent on that is kind of the bottom line. >> i see what you're saying int a degree that's true, but also he's seeing unprecedented behavior in terms of a growing growing coalition of countries, not just nato countries, that are mobilizing against him and for example, it's not just the u.s. congress that have condemned what he is doing. it very real ways. finland and sweden, the countries of the high north and europe are openly debating in their own parliaments in their public joining nato, but they are providing military assistance and even germany which has been in the back

pockets of russia for quite som time has broken the kind of anti- americanism that it had suffered and it is providing dilatory aid, antitank weapons and stinger missiles to ukraine. >> it would be extraordinarily effective in days and weeks to come. my other question would be listen, the pr word, however this comes out has already lost very to the hearts and minds of this war, but ukraine fights alone, and that is the bottom line. they fight alone. they're very little that the west can do about it. thank you for coming on. >> thank you. >> sweden is keeping an eye out for any threatening moves by russia per the air force reporting for russian fighter jets reached its airspace over the baltic sea on wednesday. as you can see on the map from sweden is just a stones throw from russia. warplanes were started, air

force officials say they view this violation very seriously given events in ukraine. sweden by the way it is not a member of nato, but there is speculation they may consider joining the organization along with finland, russian president finland said that such a move would have serious military and political consequences. threatening to help russia attack another nation. that story and continuing coverage in the war on ukraine is next. the southern neighbor

it's one of europe's poorest country. another is an ally of russia. he has already raised the possibility of a joint attack o moldova. also executive director of the u.s. navy, it's always good to have you on. the apparent plan here is that they would invade a breakaway

territory of moldova and i'm wondering if your opinion, what the fallout would be because of that. would it change the mindset of nato at all? >> i don't know that it would change their mind types of nato but it does give us a little bi of insight into he is on the same kind of medication that putin is. both of them got a little ambitious and overly aggressive in their plans for it what's happening on the ground in ukraine is frankly the russian army is falling apart based on supply lines are using desperation attacks to level cities and found them. he probably had this in the maneuver in his mind a while back, but i think he's going to be talked out of it over the next week or so with the ukrainians putting up a fierce fight for it. >> because it's two against one why would he be talked out of it ? it's already a mismatch as it i and now you throw that in, it seems to be piling up there at. >> sure, i think he would love that but what we see is extende supply lines by the russians.

we're seeing undermanned, underequipped, under offended there are. they are not able to coordinate their attacks which means the russian movements are really characterized now by desperatio attempts to pound the city but they're not the coordinated efforts that can be synchronized . meanwhile, what you're seeing from zelenskyy in the ukrainian is what they said there is no that can match the spirit i wonder when you talk about synchronicity, i look at this and previous attack in odessa i the south and then you look at some of these attacks coming down. is there a possibility that the plan might be for russia to bring the troops from the south and to hook up with, to merge with, some of the troops and th north and there by cutting

ukraine in half and making it very difficult for zelenskyy to go forward? >> that's a good characterization. i think they're going to cut th territory and half along the lines of the river, but bear in mind the supplies from the sout that are naval oriented are going to have some trouble ther is a blockage there, they won't be able to resupply input worships and the u.s. navy is i the mediterranean which is a good thing. meanwhile, the south and the north urc the convoys of up north, they don't have a lot of terrain to move on its dryer in the south it's not quite as wet so they've got more mobility. >> i think that's a fair assessment. >> we need to help them with their defenses. this is at the low-level listin or missiles, it's okay. but its it's upper levels they

need for help and we have systems we could deliver to the to help with that very there is a plan to deliver aircraft to the ukraine to pick up in poland . i think that's essential. >> more assistance, more equipment very jason, what in your opinion do they desperatel need right now? >> i think the former ambassado has it right there. any air assets that will deny air superiority to the russians because that's where the ukrainians are going to take th hit so that is ground-based javelins, stingers, for armor and air, but it's also as the ambassador pointed out your hig level strategic assets or air defense artillery and then it can get them from neighboring countries and even sort of the nato problem if you will. i will tell you that the real-time to do that would have been in the last week or two weeks prior to the engagement

and i think the west failed on that spirit. >> a dollar charge short and a day late. great insight as always, thank you for coming out. >> ahead, russia and china apparently in close communication and head of of ukraine. honoring special request next.

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after the closing ceremonies. the chinese government denies a report saying it's an attempt t blame, shift, and smeared china where the senior foreign affair correspondent's is live for us this morning in london. good morning great. >> good morning. there is a lot more to this story than just what has been reported in the press statement. fox news can confirm the report that find china and russia basically coordinating russia's efforts in invading ukraine and the timing of those efforts break it's from reported they chinese government president xi and russian president vladimir putin to delay the invasion of ukraine until after the winter olympics were over. the games ended february 20th and the war started february 24th, that implies that the least that there was some shared knowledge. they issued a joint statement early on saying that basically

as they were reading from the same hymn she. in eastern europe towards russia , have been complaining about. china has not directly endorsed the invasion into ukraine, it has they are describing it as a invasion probably more importan is from russia in large amounts for several years now. russia as well. beyond that, what does china ge from all of this? at the very least, it is the number one ally or adversary, the united states on one side o

the world while china focuses the attention on the asian sphere regarding taiwan, hong kong, et cetera. it is one last note on this however, they are going forward i guess president xi didn't hav any set in getting the to wait that long sadly. back to you. nobody is watching the western response closer than president xi. since the russian invasion of ukraine began a week ago, the u.s. and its allies have been slamming moscow with severe economic sanctions. president president biden announced one further punishmen during his state of the union address last night. >> tonight, i am announcing tha we will join our allies enclosing up american airspace to all russian flights.

russia is of course the largest producer of oil, founder and director of power of the future and also in that speech last night, the presidents kept saying by america, by america, he's continuing to buy russian oil and the question is why. >> it is bizarre that the effor to buy things made in america fossil fuels, which are the raw materials for everything else that is manufactured, why can't those be made in america. its alarming to see this administration has put tougher sanctions on american oil and gas than it has on russian oil and gas and until some action i taken punishing the russian oil and gas, and until some action is taken that opens up our industry, prices will stay very high, but putin will continue t make billions of dollars every

single week. that needs to change. >> jen psaki was asked this morning about the possibility o cutting off russian oil and she said the following. watch. >> obviously the announcement that was made yesterday the strategic petroleum reserve and do that and coordinated way wit the global community in an effort to address that and mitigate the impact, but that i something we have leeway. it's still on the table it's no off the table. going back to the petroleum reserves, everybody knows that, it's three days worth of oil an the united states, it's the nonfactor. the question becomes why wait s long. why even if it's next week or into weeks, why would the president wait so long? >> the real problem here is tha our consumption of oil has not changed. we are consuming around 20 million barrels a day and if we're not producing that oil domestically between the united

states and our partners and differ not getting it from nort america, we have to get it from somewhere else. so we are making up that shortage of the supply by importing. it doesn't have to be this way we could produce more at home. we are producing 2 million barrels a day fewer than we were just 14 months ago. so we could reverse this formula , but to do that you need and the ministration that is going to stop punishing this industry, the president people like john kerry, secretary of the interior, they have made it hard to produce oil and gas at home and that may has to stop. >> and is it your sense that th real true way to isolate, we talked about how much oil china is buying from russia, is it true you think the real way to sanctions aside, to is to stop buying the oil and the gas? >> yes, 40 percent of his economy is fossil fuel exports,

so the biggest weakness in this sense economically is that they are a one trick pony its oil an gas. conversely, china's biggest weakness economically is they have to import their oil and gas , they don't produce a lot domestically. right there we have a formula t both take away our market from vladimir putin and stifle china if we just produce more, we could flood the market with the investing oil, but we need the administration to work with us on that and the administration will not do that. biden will not do that. he said in the state of the union he is not going to do this . >> and energy security is national security. great to have you on, thank you sir. >> president biden is hitting the road in an effort to boost support for his failing agenda and shift the focus to the midterm elections. let's bring in kevin gorg who i life for us in dc.

>> you're right, it's not just the presidents, we are talking about top administration officials including the vice president, the president himsel all hitting the in the days after the state of the union. to amplify his agenda which was highlighted in this state of th union speech just over 24 hours ago. when i say top officials i mean they were talking about an all hands on deck fan out across th midwest the east and into the south. we're talking about the presidents, the vice president as well as secretaries of treasure, labor and commerce. i think it's fair to say that this is probably pretty good reflection of the precarious position that the president and his party for that matter these politically. especially as you pointed out with the midterms and the polling showing incredibly weak support for this job approval b the president in in fact, let m share this latest fox news

survey, when asked if voters want to see him run again in 2024, look at that number. yes, we are a little bit more than into the biden administration and look at that it is absolutely shocking. more than 60 percent of those surveyed say no, they don't eve want to see that guy run away again in 2024. keep in mind that poll was conducted before the strait of the union address, which usuall delivers a bit of a presidentia bounce however given the country 's record inflation, soaring energy cross prices especially gas prices. surging crime, in major cities, the humanitarian crisis along our southern border, to say nothing of foreign-policy missteps, a departure from afghanistan in now our lack of action and some people's opinio with respect to ukraine and russia, it's no wonder the administration is trying to sound the alarm and get out

there across the country to try to sell what they believe will be a winning hand come november. >> gas has gone up 80 cents since the war in ukraine started . and in california, 80 cents a gallon and eight days, that is lot ahead there are reports tha the morale of my russian troops is low. even if that is the case how much longer can they withstand the much larger military. that is next.

♪ >> breaking news and live look at the capital city of ukraine. there have been explosions rocking the capital on the eighth day of the war as fighting continues on multiple fronts across the country. a large convoy of russian troop is lined up outside the capital.

fears of more lethal attacks coming true in the ukraine's second largest city. regional official says 21 peopl were killed in a daylong bombardment rates some russian planes have also been shot down. ukrainian forces report clashes and the streets with russian paratroopers. >> yes, it is really hard for us , but we are standing strong and we will continue to be strong. >> russians continue denying targeting civilians, but over worded airstrike at a maternity emergency hospital. here in kyiv, checkpoints aroun the counter capital as ukrainians harden their divorce while convoy slowly approach approaches from all directions. in apparent stranglehold maneuver. >> a lot of people came here before the war started. >> they say the city of kherson

is in their hands. it could have a clean residence there are safer at. >> local resistance in an argo darker met the road into the plant blocked by a human convoy. russia said it a clean the area around the facility. in the battered port city the mayor says residents have endured more than 14 hours of bombardment among the casualties , even as they up the offensive, picky now we are ready for talks, for diplomacy, but we are not ready to accept any russian all tomatoes at all. >> here, the residents that remain awake. >> we are running to the basement trembling and worrying but we believe in victory.

tonight were learning a prosecutor for the internationa criminal court has opened an investigation into alleged war crimes in ukraine. congressmen on both sides of th aisle staying pretty unifying during the state of the union address, but there was quick a quick gallery shot of joe manchin sitting with republican did that signal a party switchover that who is running for the republican seat as the ninth congressional district. that primary is held on may 3rd. we want to talk about them sitting with republicans from your thoughts on that? >> i will say that i was disappointed in the rhetoric that failed to meet the moment in the state of the union and failed to address how american families are struggling in this economy and how the world has fallen into chaos here, but i think that he is signaling that

once again he has to break away from his party inside with republicans on how to address this crisis and that is certainly that we need to pursu energy independence here in our country to make us more secure and will make the world a safer place. those of us that have fought fo our country here recognize we want our government to have all the tools at its disposal, without having to send troops into harm's way and without having to ask american families to suffer more economic pain here at home. >> i know you served in the arm so you know from where you speak , do you believe that congress is doing enough to mak that point to the president tha we need to produce more energy here at home and we need to tak less energy from the russian spirit is that crystal-clear coming out of congress in your opinion? >> i think we need to be more clear and we need to say it

louder until the biden administration take some action. it is clear we need to remove regulations and allow the american injury industry to tak allow us to move forward in a positive way. there is no reason we can't sustain ourselves on energy mad here, we can do it in a responsible way and we can do i in a way that we can export energy to our allies around the world and we don't have to rely on russian oil. it would give us the tools to respond in this crisis. >> you were a former soldier, what do you make, you look at this war now in day eight, what do you make of the fortitude of the ukrainians going against th russians and holding their own to this point? >> the it craney and sorcerers should be proud of what they've accomplished, they are brave an valiant, and they are fighting

for their homeland, that is a powerful motivator and they kno the terrain, they know the streets, they know how to defen their home better than the russians do they have faltered here in their logistics in thei supply lines are strained, and they've had cause, but they are on the move again in the ukrainians certainly have their tasks out for them to continue to hold the line against this invasion. >> i wonder what you think because we talk a lot about these dates to the cease-fire talks that start tomorrow and you know, members of his cabine have said to, these are important talks, but they have said we are not about to offer more concessions to russia. i know they are standing their own, but do you believe that ma be it is time for the ukrainian to at least consider offering some concessions to vladimir putin or do they hold firm?

>> i think we all need to hold out hope for peace here. i think the ukrainians need to decide their own destiny and they'd need to decide where the are willing to concede and wher they aren't. they are in a position where they are defending their homeland, they control their feature and they need to continue to fight for that's. in these negotiations and on th ground. the world will continue to support the ukrainian people in this fight spread. >> the world is really supporting the ukraine in this fight for it you this condemnation in the u.s. and to have the international courts that are now looking at work crimes my question is with all of that, we roll it all up together and it doesn't matter because ukraine is still fighting the war alone. >> and we have been saying this for a while that europe needs t come together and do more for

the security of europe and president trump was saying year ago that germany and other countries and nato need to spen more on the defense of europe and we're starting to see that happen now. its unfortunate crisis had to happen for countries to come together, but hopefully they will be more secure in the future. best of luck to you on may 3rd in the. triggering an exodus of russian elites. in the state of the union address tuesday night president biden vowed to seize russia's lots, right-click three apartments and. that morning, grabbing the attention of russian oligarchs fleeing in the hope of finding safe harbor. live with this in new york is actually. >> those russian oligarchs are fleeing to the indian ocean on their super yachts as they sent

the running to the richest rulers in the country. it came during the state of the union speech this week. >> the united states department of justice is assembling a dedicated task force to go afte the crimes of the russian oligarchs. we're joining to find and seize their yachts in their luxury apartments, their private jets. we are coming for you and your ill begotten gains. >> the four biggest rights belong to russia's richest and as part of a package sanction against the kremlin authorities in germany a 500 megayacht this ship is worth an estimated $600 million. meanwhile, the process ally put his line of properties up for sale and he has denied any link to putin and has been in belaru to help with the talks on behal

of russia. a spokesperson for him says he was contacted by ukraine and ha been trying to help ever since his super yard has a military grade system, two helicopter pads and a submarine. according to reports, russian sources say don't have mesh making people believe it was built for putin making the yachts at the top of the list t be seized. here is the map. put this up on the screen if yo would. i want to give you an idea of where we are. this is where we stand on date eight rate if you turned red, you could see this is where the battle is going in the eastern part of the city and the country . those are where the fiercest bites of vegan over the past couple of days. they have not taken the city that nation second-largest and they have outside the nations largest city in the capital, we

will keep you up to speed on where those battles are going a they now make their way towards the southern parts of the country, the black sea and possibly into odessa grade continuing coverage of our two coming up, we have live reports on the ground and live reports from kyiv. more next.

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continuing coverage, breaking news. from the capital city, the scope of latimer and the humanitarian crisis that 1 -- one may be left now lead, a vast exodus of refugees. many continue to stand their