think of what we reported tonight, targeting civilians, towns annihilated, neighborhoods leveled, entire neighborhoods wiped off the map. our prayers are with the ukrainian people. stay tuned. laura ingraham is up next, bill hemmer filling in tonight. have a great weekend. we will see you back here on monday. ♪ ♪ [explosion] [indistinct shouting] >> the images never end. i am bill hemmer in tonight for laura and welcome to the end of a very long week. i'm going to start with the latest news at this hour, where it is 5:00 a.m. in ukraine, and most importantly, kyiv remains in ukrainian hands. some analysts worry tonight the historic city will not be spared from the brutal bombing campaigns we have seen already.

the fire at that nuclear complex is out, but the plant is said to be under russian control. if true, russians could control 25% of ukraine's power supply now. ukrainian officials also warning that russia is about to conduct naval landings around odesa. power is out in another port city called mariupol, and that city has been hammered for days by russian forces. also, residential areas in the town of kharkiv in the northeast have come under heavy shelling again today here in a moment, we will speak to someone who lives there. statement for that. in the meantime, trey yingst joins us. he has lived in the capital city. trey, we heard explosions today, yesterday for you, smoke plumes in the distance. how close can you assess is the russian army tonight? >> yeah, bill, the current estimates are the russians are about 15 miles from the city center of kyiv. the front line moves every hour, and ukrainian forces are doing

their best to push back this russian offensive. remember, to the northwest of the city is the end of that convoy. nearly 40 miles long, the russian tanks and artillery units, the officials believe will attempt to surround at least in part this capital city. in the southern part of ukraine, as you noted, in mariupol, we are seeing a significant play by russian forces to try to cut off the city of nearly 400,000 people and ultimately take it over. if they are successful in these efforts, it will give them a critical land bridge where they can move in forces and equipment from crimea, and also it will connect them to the eastern part of separatist held areas where they have been backing forces there since 2014. so all of this playing together with that critical front that is taking place in the second largest city of ukraine, kharkiv. and that frontline is also moving by the hour, so you have a lot of moving parts in this invasion taking place, and at the same time, the civilian death toll continues to rise. the russians are pulling a page out of their syria playbook. they are targeting different

civilian areas in an effort to really bombard the population, try to bring them to their knees and make them surrender, but the ukrainian forces say they are not giving up. we spoke this week with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy, and he doubled down on this idea of both civilians and soldiers fighting until the end, it's part of the reason they are calling on the international community once again tonight to not only close the airspace over ukraine, but continue the supply of weapons. bill? >> bill: trey, give our viewers a sense of what they might has been like for you. you are coming up on dawn. have you heard air raid sirens or is has this been some thing of a quiet night? how would you characterize it? >> a few hours ago there were a number of explosions in the distance. we could not figure out if it was air strikes from the russians or artillery units, but they are getting closer and closer to this capital city fear of oftentimes, the air raid sirens will go off as they did tonight, telling people to get underground immediately. when you look out the window right now, it is martial law in place. there is a care if you. no one is on the streets.

those you see occasionally our soldiers or civilians who are volunteering their time to stay here and make sure everything is secure. they distinguish themselves from anyone else by wrapping yellow tape around their arms so you know they are ukrainian forces and they set up checkpoints around the city to make sure russian saboteurs or any reconnaissance units are not able to move freely throughout this area. bill? >> bill: trey, thanks, maybe come back to you later this hour. live in "angle." with me now is a member of ukraine's parliament, former advisor to president zelenskyy, also russian. sir, thank you for your time, first of all. remarkable time. today the russian minister told talks have not progressed marty socks even real, do you think? >> these talks are basically, from what i can see, russian demand, russians are -- take our

independence, they demand things which will never pass in the parliament. these are things that destroy a chance for ukraine to be its own state, so as far as conversation there, i must point to these peace talks, we need to get them, they are bullies, and we have so many russians that have died in ukraine, the transfers of these bodies is to be organized, something discussed in negotiations. also, hundreds of pows, and they have some of ours. we need to talk about that, too. not to mention corey doors we need to exchange and give a chat up in the cross fire to leave. that is the point we are in agreements, but as far as the actual ending to the warfare, unfortunately, russians are not giving it a chance. >> bill: when you talk about

this, they were talking about human corridors, as well, that would enable some ukrainians to leave, may be by the millions, in some of these towns. is there any progress that would help build a corridor or in some hard-hit areas that would eventually save human lives? >> there is an agreement, but as far as the question of what russians actually do, it is opposite agreement. they are shelling residential corridors. you can watch the imagery, it is all online, when they are attacking civilians, attacking humanitarian centers, and they are killing people indiscriminately. the fact of the matter is in that nuclear power town, which you discussed on the day yesterday, part of my family lives, and they have no weaponry so they went on the streets with ukrainian flags to protest the russians, and they have shot at them, throwing grenades at them. this is just russia showing how much it cares about ukraine.

>> bill: which town was that? right now, there are concerns about another nuclear facility, as we speak tonight. >> zaporizhzhia, the one you discussed -- >> bill: one of the largest. can you describe for us, our u.s. ambassador to the u.n. was talking about this a bit earlier today, about the nuclear facilities in ukraine. just roll this year, guys, listen to her. >> nuclear facilities cannot become part of this conflict. russia must hold any further use of force that might put that further risk all 15th operable reactors across ukraine. or interfere with ukraine's ability to maintain the safety and security of its 37 nuclear facilities. >> bill: i don't know if you know the answer to this, but is this part of the discussions with the russians? because a nuclear disaster would be -- would spread beyond the borders of ukraine.

>> indeed, and they have been shelling that biggest nuclear power plant in europe. the fact of the matter is, this is the way of them to try to hold your of hostage, to say you do anything and we will blow this up, we will show you -- we will show you what actually is to fight with russians. essentially, that is the reality of what is happening. they have been reportedly minding the nuclear station. i have seen reports of that account and leave negotiation not with us, but when you're up, to tell it to basically pull back. >> bill: good luck. throughout the day -- >> thank you very much. >> bill: in the days to come. thank you for your time, sir. >> thank you. >> mr. putin must stop this madness, and he must stop it now.

cooler heads must prevail. russian forces are now 20 miles and closing from ukraine's second largest nuclear facility. so this imminent danger continues. >> bill: the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. a bit earlier warning about another major nuclear plant in southern ukraine. this after a fire broke out at the largest facility after it came under russian fire, i will show you on the board where that is behind me, southern ukraine, if you put your eye here, on this part. talking about this from yesterday, this really reached a point where it was -- the world was holding its breath for about three hours. now the issue is over here in mykolaiv. this is a little further west. what the ambassador is describing is the russian military, they went this way to mariupol and have gone this way past kherson and coming up on

mykolaiv very soon. you have giant nuclear reactors and the concern we have from yesterday, was well-founded. because this situation was dire. you have six reactors that have lined up, five that are online, russian forces come up on the town. you had ukrainian civilians, not soldiers, but civilians by the thousands who had lined the road that leads to this nuclear power plant trying to hold off the russian army. that lasted a total of 12 hours, they were scattered, spread apart, and when the dust settled, the russian military moved in. fortunately for the world, not just ukraine, but for the world, the fire was 1200 yards to the south and east of these nuclear reactors and it did not get inside. it could have been a completely different story. i want to go to the second largest city in ukraine, the town of kharkiv. we talked about it a lot, heavy shelling for days in that city.

watch. [explosions] >> bill: been going on for some time. the mayor telling "the washington post" from his bunk, the following, "they are destroying entire districts where people live, they want to destroy and demolish the city. this is a pure example of a genocide, the genocide of the ukrainian people." this is where my next guest has been living, with me, thank you for your time. the mayor says you are not going to give up. how are you doing? >> okay. [laughs] we are doing okay, but right now here, a couple of hours ago, there were, again, i heard the

plan and it was really scary. >> bill: are you in a home or a bomb shelter? >> i am now in my home and they restored electricity, had no electricity for days, but now i am in my home and hope i will stay here for quite a while. >> bill: if you wanted to leave, could you? >> i can't leave because my family is here. my family is here, my mother, my grandparents, and my husband's parents, they are also here, and they are pretty old, so we can't leave them. they will have no ability to go and buy food or something, and we are doing this for them. >> bill: we have been following the shelling of your

city. can you give us a sense of what it sounds like, because it seems to be nonstop. >> i'm not sure how to describe it because it's just -- and the sound that you will hear it and he will never forget it, because you hear it and you get out of your flat and hide and just hiding. >> bill: how much food do you have a? how much water do you have? >> it's enough for now. it's enough for now, but i'm not sure how long it will take, so we just don't understand when all this will. >> bill: iryna, do you speak russian? >> yes. >> bill: kharkiv speaks primarily russian, is that your first language or is it ukrainian? >> i use it ukrainian and

russian, i can speak really both languages, you know, when they say it's about -- russian people are feeling bad here, but it never was. >> bill: the reason i ask you that, i'm wondering if you have ever been able to stop and imagine that your town would be invaded the way it has been? by russians. >> yes. i don't understand why they are doing this. >> bill: what is your message for putin tonight? >> oh... i don't know. please stop. please stop this. we don't deserve it. we didn't want it. they go here, just go away. we don't need their troops here. >> bill: i hope that comes through for you, iryna.

my best to you and your family. >> thank you. >> bill: we can hear the anguish in your voice. hang on and hang tough, okay? thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> bill: you can learn more about her story of fox news digital. who brought us that woman a bit earlier today. we want to move west to the capital city of kyiv, russian forces are trying to encircle the city. that is their intent. and if they treat kyiv the way they have surrounding towns, in this city be shelled. and entrepreneur in kyiv, thank you for your time. we have had reports of a renewed assault, what is the situation there? where you are? >> well, the current situation is stable but of course it is never easy, never has been for the last week or so. we didn't hear explosions or air defenses working for the last few hours, but usually, like

every 30 minutes or so, we hear missiles, warning sirens, all over the city. we hear explosions, which is the military protecting us from a belarusian russian missiles, not only our military facilities but unfortunately, residential sectors, as well. >> bill: when we talked to our correspondent trey yingst a few minutes ago, he said the last air raid siren was three hours prior, which would have been about 2:00 in the morning, your time. does that fit the pattern? does the bombing usually happen at night or does it happen during the day? >> well, it is happening like every single hour or so. usually during the night, it is more severe because russian troops, they attempt to attack more aggressively during the night, obviously some sort of military tactics, which i am no

expert to talk about it, and, we spent the night in the underground shelter or the basement to try to get some protection, or at least a sense of protection. this night was relatively easy and relatively safe, but of course, we need to understand that today, you cannot be safe anywhere in ukraine. >> bill: how close do you believe the russian army is? to kyiv? >> well, we don't know for sure, but according to our military, they are trying to surround our city, but the heroes from ukrainian military and the civilian volunteers who are helping them, they try to push back and defend our city. of course, for now, we believe kyiv will not fall, and the enemy understands this, as well, they feel they are losing. that is why they are shelling our city, to try to strike fear

in our hearts, but that is not going to happen. >> bill: olek, it is a city of 3 million people and we have seen the various images of towns that have been invaded by the russian army, they have been obliterated. how much consideration have you given to that possibility in the town in which you live? >> well, for now, we don't know what is going to happen next. yesterday, i couldn't have imagined that russian army will hit nuclear power plant, let alone try to prevent firefighters to come and put the fire out, because that is our biggest concern. we are not leaving our home, we will defend our lands, we will defend our home with arms, with weapons in our hands, but if nuclear catastrophe happens, there is no going back. everybody will suffer, and all the countries who are not willing to help us at this moment, they won't have any other countries to have a

relationship with. a few days ago, russians successfully hit holocaust memorial in the center of kyiv. they hit kyiv television power, five civilians burned alive just walking down the street of their city. they hit a main near the central train station, where there are thousands and thousands of women and children waiting for the evacuation from kyiv. it's like 200 meters to the right, 200 meters to the left, there would have been like thousands of civilian casualties. so for now, we stay put, we keep calm, but of course, we are afraid or civilian people. >> bill: you are brave, and so too are many millions of your countrymen and women. are you in a shelter, by the way? and who is with you? >> for now, i am with my wife, my parents are in kyiv, as well. right now, i am at home.

basically, i'm just trying to shed a light on what is happening here and help everybody we can to spread the truth. >> bill: well, we hear you loud and clear. thank you for your time, oleksandr. >> thank you. >> bill: just outside of kyiv in a town to the northwest, stands between russian forces and the capital city. it was the center of intense fighting today, as ukrainian special forces held off repeated attempts by russian forces. despite the heavy fighting, morale is said to be high among the defenders. one soldier telling "the wall street journal," "the russians keep trying to enter an encircle us but they just can't. we are together, we are organized, and we are strong-willed. former journalist was just in the town of irpin. thank you for your time tonight. what did you see there? >> hello, thank you. actually, they managed to leave irpin a few days ago.

here tonight, just when all the shooting started, most fighting or the airport -- actually, it is very close to kyiv. it is actually kyiv, like a part of the city. >> bill: kind of like a neighborhood to kyiv, right, just out there on the outskirts. there is a bridge in irpin that has been blown up by the ukrainian military. did you see that bridge? >> yes, i saw the bridge before it was blown up, so there is no more way to keep irpin, but there is another way to kyiv, and i think the russian forces try another road to kyiv. >> bill: can i ask you this? we are told since the bridge was blown up, you have been able to

hold back that russian convoy from getting closer to your city. is that true? >> well, actually yes, that is true. not just one bridge that was blown up, so we had to -- a lot of infrastructure to prevent russian forces to get close to kyiv. >> bill: what are you going to do today when the sun comes up then? >> well -- [laughs] well, actually, as i told you before, we managed to move out from irpin, and now i am in -- 140 kilometers from kyiv. it is quieter, just a couple hours ago, i don't know

exactly -- it was a very powerful sound of explosion. i think we will find out in half an hour, maybe less. it is preparing -- >> bill: so you were able to move a pretty good distance across your country, that's very interesting. i don't think a lot of people would be able to think that is possible, but you were able to do it. what does that tell us? >> well -- [laughs] i don't know. actually, the most important city to ukrainians altogether, and it is quite easy to find somebody who can help you. even here, now, some people, some soldiers yet, they go to take their weapons to protect -- everybody who can hold weapons,

they try to help the army, trying to help our local defense forces. actually, it is not the situation here where i am. yes, there are sirens during the day. moments, just yesterday, russians pollute the school, i don't know why, they blew the school. the day before, they blew a few private houses, and there is a lot of destruction. just 500 meters near the center. but we help each other, and there is moving, so i think we can hold all of this and we can fight back. >> bill: serhii, you are

brave. thank you for sharing your story. it's nice to see you tonight. and good luck throughout the day today. thank you. we got a fox news alert right now, there is new footage released by sky news today, and this will show you just how dangerous the situation in ukraine is for everyone, including reporters on the scene. one of the network's news teams, five of them in a car, were attacked outside of kyiv. this is stunning stuff. it runs for several minutes and we wanted to share this extended clip with you tonight. >> but the government has warned four days of russian saboteurs who have infiltrated the country to bring terror. death squads who are attacking civilians in their cars as they flee. they do exist. as we found out. >> [bleep]! >> my goodness. >> that was a bullet. >> something blew up under us. >> [bleep].

[gunshot] >> [bleep]! [gunshot] >> stop! [bleep]! >> we think it is a ukrainian checkpoint and a mistake, so we identify ourselves. >> we are journalist! journalist! journalists! >> are you okay? >> journalists!

>> somehow, we have to get out of this, but the rounds keep coming. is a professional ambush. the bullets just don't miss. [gunshot's] >> [bleep]. >> stop! >> [bleep]! [bleep]! stop! journalists! >> i am hit, but escape the car, and with the producer, we make r way down the embankment. camera operator richie has taken two rounds to his body armor but is still stuck in the car. he runs for it in a hail of

bullets. [gunshots] >> [bleep]. >> of the five of us have made it out of the car coming down the embankment, and we just can't believe we are alive. >> behind that wall. >> go. >> we run into a warehouse unit looking for cover. >> go. >> we know any rescue will take hours. we are stuck, fighting outside, with no idea what is going on. >> bill: that correspondent is a gentleman by the name of stuart ramsey with sky news. his crew of four others, a total of five, remarkably are all okay, but a truly unvarnished look at the dangers that face

all of them inside ukraine tonight. all right, now this. >> the invasion of ukraine is blatant violation of international law. we have seen the use of cluster bombs. we have seen reports of use of other weapons, which will be in violation of international law. >> bill: that is nato secretary general a bit earlier today on these reports that russian forces are deploying cluster bombs against ukrainian targets, including civilian targets. there also reports that the russian military could employ thermo air raid bombs, also known as vacuum bombs, not confirmed on that, but what does it tell us about putin's overall strategy in war? with me, retired brigadier general don bullock. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having become a bill. >> bill: first come on the cluster bomb, these are wicked

weapons of war. explain how they work, and why would russia use that? >> well, bill, i've got to give you credit to the last 30 minutes year, nearly 30 minutes i've been watching the face of war and devastation of all the weapons, and having 81 months in combat, commanding, not bringing home 72 of my own, watching the devastation to the civilians out there, these cluster bombs are a very dangerous weapon that creates long-term, you know, casualties, because a majority of the cluster bombs or a good percentage of the cluster bombs, after they explode, our dogs, and they remain dogs, and they remain duds for a long time. the devastation it wreaks on civilians, the devastation it wreaks inside urban areas, it is just not a legitimate weapon, and it certainly isn't a weapon

that should be used for, you know, the proportionality that we are seeing. left in the hands of putin, left in the hands of his generals, these things are going to be used indiscriminately to kill, maim, and create unbelievable amount of devastation and loss of life. that is what these cluster bombs are going to do. they are devastating. in my opinion, they should not be being used. but putin, he is going to use 'em, because they are on the battlefield. >> in general, the vacuum bomb we describe here, it's a mixture of chemicals and fire, and it just obliterates everything around it. explain, perhaps, why putin would resort to this tool in such a brutal war, and if he does, what will he stop at, general?

>> well, that is just the question. these type of vacuum bombs are devastating. they have two explosions associated with them. one is the gas, and it spreads and it goes into crevices, into buildings, any open area. and then the second explosion ignites that gas, and it vaporizes anything in its path. and it's been used since world war ii, and it's only become more and more lethal in the variety of uses for it by error, by land, rocket, even types of grenades have this capability that he is capable of using, and he won't stop to use, he will use it in these urban areas. >> bill: if he were to drop one of these type of bombs on an urban area, many of these towns we are talking about, heavily

staffed, what would be the result of that? >> it's going to be untold casualties of civilians, mostly, and any of the military that happens to be confronting him at the time, but these -- it's just going to be under devastation inside a population center, and a moral leader would never use that come up with this guy, he's got no morals. if he's got it, he's going to use it. >> bill: there is a -- to investigate war crimes already. i don't know what your views are on that. i know mine, i saw video last night they just kept me up at night, and that is the video, in kharkiv come i don't if you have seen it or not, but he bomb drops and a gentleman walks out of a home, we are not showing on tv for obvious reasons, and he's got all this on an iphone, and he is recording it, and there is just devastation all over him,

and you see four women walking down the street and they are screaming and crying, and the camera pans to the left, and there is human bodies on the ground. these aren't soldiers, they are civilians, to me they look like 65-year-old women. that is a war crime, sir, on camera. >> it is absolutely -- >> bill: isn't that all the evidence you need? >> listen, invasion is a war crime. i don't need a special commission. i don't need a bunch of investigation, i don't need a team of lawyers or a team of anybody to make the observation, this whole invasion is a war crime and putin is a war criminal, and any of his officers who are executing these kind of directives from him are committing war crimes, as well, and it is unforgivable in its nature. >> bill: general, thank you for your time. appreciate you coming on. president zelenskyy's request for a no-fly zone over ukraine rejected by u.s. and nato

officials today. secretary of state blinken laid out why this is not to something the allies want to do. >> the only way to implement something like a no-fly zone is to send nato planes into ukrainian airspace and shoot down russian planes. and that could lead to a full-fledged war. in europe. president biden has been clear that we are not going to get into a war with russia. >> bill: so that is the position as of tonight. retired brigadier general robert spalding, hudson institute, thank you for your time. let's talk about a no-fly zone. if you were to initiate that, what are the risks that come with that, sir? >> well, for the aircraft involved, most of the risk would be where are you going to deploy, out of, what airfields are you going to use? in addition you need tankers, you need pretty large aircraft that are easy to shoot down, and to identify aircraft that are

flying around, and then, on the battlefield, it's likely they have service to air, mobile service to air missile systems that are moving around, so establishing the no-fly zone, while it is pretty straightforward, would have some complications and risks to the aircrews of the tankers, the awacs, and the writers that are there to enforce it, so it is easy to do in terms of actually executing it, but it is complicated in terms of getting all the pieces in place and making it happen. >> bill: we had a no-fly zone over iraq for many years, southern iraq, a no-fly zone over kosovo in the late 1990s. what did we learn from that when you fly 15,000 feet? >> well, for the most part, the iraqi air force wasn't really a problem for the united states. i don't think the russians would be, either. the problem is, where are you going to stage out of? it is likely you would have to stage out of airfields that are outside of ukraine, and then you would only be able to clear the

airspace over the area of ukraine that is closest to those airfields. you would not be able to go to the extent all the way to the russian border, so the other issue, you do not have any airfields within ukraine that are likely going to be able to be used because you have to be concerned about the russians actually capturing those areas where the aircraft are used, so it is some challenge for the military to establish that. that being said, we have highly trained and expert folks who could do that. the problem is, secretary blinken stated, you get into this challenge where you potentially have a conflict between the u.s. or europe and russia, and this involves nuclear weapons. >> bill: and that is the point we are driving at here, sir. that is air to air combat with the russian air force. the imagination goes when you consider the possibility of a head-to-head conflict like that.

>> well, we had to shoot downs the cold war. they didn't progress to further conflict, but the risk always remains when you have these types of confrontations that it could escalate when you have two powers that are nuclear armed. >> bill: do you see a way around a no-fly zone? to prevent the devastation from going another month or two, perhaps, ukraine? >> i really don't. i think what the main problem here is when we force the ukrainians to give up nuclear weapons, you really gave an out for putin to carry out this invasion of ukraine. having no nuclear weapons in ukraine, they really don't have the ability to deter an attack, and because the russians have really all of the -- we really waited too long to supply equipment and aircraft and

other, you know, materials for the ukrainians to resist a russian invasion. i think now, it is far too late, and the russians really have the advantage. >> bill: general, thank you for your time. this is hotly debated and we will see whether or not it comes back in the coming days or weeks. general spalding, thank you. so, the ukrainian town of lviv near the polish border has been spared the brunt of the fighting but has been flooded with refugees fleeing russia's onslaught. lucas tomlinson is at his post yet a again today and we i can live with you. lucas, good morning there is you get ready for another day, hello. >> bill, good morning. officials tell me a no-fly zone over this country would have no effect, 500 ballistic and short range and cruise missiles that are flying into this country, no effect whatsoever. we got this video in from two hours north of the capital, a city that has largely been reduced to rubble. earlier, ukraine's president zelenskyy addressed the european continent.

>> interpreter: do not be silent. support ukraine. because of ukraine does not survive, the whole of europe will not survive. if ukraine falls, the whole of europe will fall. >> tens of thousands of people poured out on the streets of prague to hear zelenskyy's virtual address, this is the convoy stalled outside the capital, many wondering where the russian soldiers in that convoy, why don't satellite images show people outside of the vehicle that you would expect in a military convoy? there are reports there is low morale, soldiers eating expired food, spoke to one woman on the streets who said her mother lives in that convoy and has had russian soldiers coming into her home and ransacking food. here in lviv, we traveled 30 minutes north and found a former american soldier training with fighters. he offered this explanation for russia's military problems in this country. >> the ukrainians have killed a lot of russians in this past week, and i'm surprised how fast the russians want to throw their

troops behind enemy lines to die. >> now we passed a number of checkpoints going up to the city, this is a university town, bill, as i've mentioned, however once you leave the city and travel 13 minutes north with numerous checkpoints, and a lot of local militias, citizen soldiers, men building sandbags and armed with hunting rifles, nearly on wartime footing, some of those fighters had seen a russian gun ships flying overhead. >> lucas, your background is in the military, u.s. navy, and i just want to draw on that because there were military experts earlier today suggesting the russians help supply and fuel that will get them to sunday, which means two days from now. are you hearing that, and if so, what can you report on that? >> certainly, we are talking about the convoy and stalled convoy, there are certainly a lot of questions about the fuel issues and also the mud, the fact these vehicles that are supposed to be -- and all-weather force and the fact they have to stick to main roads is certainly raising questions.

those tanks should be able to go through any kind of land in certainly rich farmland here in ukraine. in terms of the warship off the coast of odesa, we are getting reported some of the ships might have turned around and hide back to crimea, but as you know just a couple days ago, we first reported a group of russian warships had left crimea and are posed to do an amphibious assault in odesa. ukraine's third largest city. however, there are reports tonight from ukrainian officials that some of the ships may have turned around. we don't know if that is a diversion tactic, perhaps, you mentioned kherson, the city north of crimea, some soldiers down there, but back to logistical problems and fuel, is this russian army capable of moving that far, bill? >> bill: great point. lucas, one last thing, i have described this putin march as slow, slower than he wants, betty, but deliberate, would you agree with that? >> i like slow and steady in terms of delivery -- i think you look at some of the shelling of

civilian areas, flying into apartment buildings, indiscriminate shelling with -- i would say this is looking like chechnya and parts of syria, perhaps aleppo. deliberately evil targeting civilian areas. >> bill: great work over there, lucas. thank you. lucas tomlinson. did china get more than it bargained for when they joined forces with vladimir putin one month ago from today? we will explore that and more when we continue peer head we're a different kind of dentistry. one who believes in doing anything it takes to make dentistry work for your life. so we offer a complete exam and x-rays free to new patients without insurance - everyday. plus, patients get 20% off their treatment plan. we're on your corner and in your corner every step of the way. because your anything is our everything.

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♪ ♪ [gunfire] >> bill: gunfire earlier today in the town of kharkiv, northeastern ukraine. coming up on six clock in the morning ukraine, kharkiv is where we were speaking with iryna. the city surrounded by russian forces for a week and getting pounded repeatedly. here is kyiv, where we were speaking with trey, and lucas is by the polish border. down in the south, there has

been a lot of activity, russian military has been able to move rather well in the south, as opposed to the north, primarily because they took this crimea peninsula eight years ago and put up a big military base there, and the ukrainian army has been fighting here just about 5060% of them the past eight years. waiting for the next russian invasion, the invasion came but it did not come through this section of the country. in the meantime, here is where the russian army came in, right from mariupol and there is a big battle happening there as we speak, a battle that has gone on for three or four days now and that city is just getting hammered, as well. so in the south, what the russians are trying to do is build this land bridge here, and connect it all the way over here to odesa, and in the coming days, you are going to hear a lot more about the city of 1 million in southwestern ukraine, see whether or not the russian army makes a move on this city, and if so, what comes from that? the other story is the nuclear

issue, 24 hours ago this was a concern. now, it is over in a town called mykolaiv and the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. was talking about this -- this power plant from yesterday is the largest in europe, nuclear power plant. this is the second largest nuclear power plant in the country of ukraine and the russian military was said they would be 20 miles and closing in. will they manage this, as well as they try to manage this the day before? the world waits on that. now there was this from beijing, china, as it relates to ukraine from today, also. watch.

>> bill: the reason we bring this up, it was a month ago today where in beijing, china, president xi and vladimir putin essentially shook hands on a deal where they would be friends, and by invading ukraine, russia just hasn't strained perhaps relations with the west, of course, but also has it strained those relations with close partner of china? "the wall street journal" knows this, quote: "russia declared its friendship with china had no limits. forcing beijing into adjusting its foreign policy in a way that risks damaging relations with the u.s.-led west and undoing years of efforts to paint itself as a responsible world leader." the elbridge colby. >> good to be with you, bill. >> bill: is there a chance the chinese might turn on moscow after this? >> i think there is almost no chance, bill. i think the chinese are trying

to avoid taking as much of the blame as possible, they might be trying to adjust their tactics, particularly in a diplomatic context with the statement you referred to suggesting there were no limits to the relationship between china and russia, and apparently xi jinping put that in there, their relationship is closer than it has been for 70 years, and i mean, i think probably if anything the chinese, like the russians come appear to have been surprised by some of the restrictions the russians have run into, but both of them see the united states in particular in our alliance network as the core of their problem and i think they knew that. if anything, this is kind of want to force the russians more into china's embrace and make them more subservient. i would be very surprised if the chinese fundamentally change their tune other than some diplomatic tap dancing. >> bill: given the way the western world has responded to russia, the western companies that have basically shut their operations down, moscow's stock market has not been open for days, and the brutality of the invasion passed on to the world.

does not have no impact on chinese leadership? >> i think it does. it is cautionary and sobering for them, thinking about, say, invading taiwan, how the world has reacted, but i will say this, bill. it is not exactly a one to one thing. china is ten times the economic size of russia, so everyone is a lot more reliant and intertwined with china's economy than they are with russia, and the other thing is, a lot of these sanctions bullets can't be fired more than once. a lot of the european economies are taking hits to decouple, and they should, from the economy sector, that's going to expose their economy and the chinese knows that, so i don't think we should take too much a single entity from this and i think what is critical here, bill, thg hard and that is the kind of key insight to take, there is nothing that is going to deter an invasion with a stout military defense and that is i think the example to take from this tragedy. >> bill: elbridge, thank you

for your time. we will see where it goes, day by day, the world stepping into a whole new place. elbridge colby and, take you for your time. final thoughts when we come back on this friday night.

>> before we go tonight there was a scene in prague in the czech republic, president zelenskyy was speaking remotely 2,000 and thousands of prague and this was that scene. watch. [cheers and applause] >> on and on and went. tomorrow he will address u.s. senators at 9:30 a.m. is a dumb. eastern time we will have coverage when that happens. met the mic that does a press at the end of a very, i am cameron,

laura is back on monday, join me every monday through friday with dana at 9:00 a.m. eastern time in america's newsroom the fox news channel all night long for all development out of ukraine. shannon bream madi washington, benjamin mike benjamin hall and key will take it from your. we will see on monday, have a good one. ♪ ♪ >> hello and welcome to fox news at nine in washington. >> and i'm benjamin hall in kev ukraine, bracing itself for the an inevitable invasion. about 15 miles away from a rear now. >> breaking tonight russian forces have seized the biggest power plant in europe after a middle of a night attack it's at the facil