>> todd: the ukrainian government says 18 civilians, include it would go children, have been killed in a russian airstrike on a residential neighborhood. humanitarian agencies say they are overwhelmed with 100 ukrainian refugees crossing into poland alone every single minute. this is going to be a crisis of epic proportions, the likes of which we have never seen. >> carley: already is. >> todd: i'm todd piro. >> carley: i'm carley shimkus. the white house is warning a

long road ahead, with the devastation rattling global markets and launching gas prices to all-time record high. the white house could strike a deal with saudi arabia, iran or venezuela to address concerns as it considers banning oil from russia. >> todd: following the developments this morning. we begin with jonathan hunt on the ground in ukraine. jonathan. >> john: good morning. day 13 of this ongoing war and ukrainians woke up to the grim news civilian casualties have climbed above the 400 mark, the number of those killed in this russian bombardment of so many ukrainian cities. overnight, at least 18 civilians died in one strike in the eastern city of sumy. there was supposed to be a

ceasefire established there yesterday and that clearly did not happen and the bombardment goes on there is intense fighting in and around the southern city of mikoliab. russian try to taken hold from mariupol to the eastern side to odesa, the critical black seaport. president zelenskyy says he like his fellow ukrainians is going to fight for every inch of this country and he is not going anywhere. listen here to president zelenskyy. >> here is kyiv in the evening. i stay here in kyiv at vancova street. i don't hide and i'm not afraid of anyone. i will stay here as long as it takes to win in our patriotic wa >> jonathan: we have seen images that are heartbreaking and

heartwarming. ukrainian soldiers trying to help civilians escape, we've seen pictures of them holding the hands of small children, running them to safety as the kids flee for their lives, also helping elderly get to something that might be approaching safety. in the meantime, help is coming in the form of tens of thousands of foreigners who are willing to come here to fight. many of those arriving in lviv at the train station and saying they feel they have to do something. listen here. >> i brought some first aid, if there is triage needs or evacuation efforts. as far as how i feel, i'm nervous, it is not on me tis on people suffering. >> jonathan: help is coming, carley and todd, what we keep hearing from ukrainians, from president zelenskyy down to some

small orphan children we spoke to yesterday is the phrase, close the skies. they feel that a no-fly zone would make a real difference here and they really want the west to impose it, it doesn't look as though it will happen any time soon. todd and carley. >> todd: doesn't look like there is appetite in the states for that. jonathan, my question regarding civilian casualties. whenever russian soldiers are captured, they all say, we thought we were on a training mission. are the ukrainian people starting to think that is a lie? i don't know of one training mission that involves slaughtering of innocent civilians. >> jonathan: i think what you are looking at here are two different sections of the russian army there do appear to be younger soldiers who were probably told they were going on a training mission, they did not know they were being isn't to

take part in the slaughter of ukrainian civilians. on the other hand, you are right, todd, there is no way a significant part of the russian army did not know they were coming to invade a country and know what that would entail. not just taking out military positions, that is not the way president putin uses handwriting sources, we saw it before, when putin orders his army in, he orders them to flatten villages, entire towns, as well, and that is exactly what is happening here in ukraine, todd. >> carley: what do you know about the second nuclear facility damaged by shelling, it is in kharkiv and it contained nuclear material and a reactor. >> todd: this was a training facility, not a nuclear power

plant, but equally, it is of great concern. it clearly appears to be an aim of the russians, the invading russians to take control of more and more of ukraine's power structure and that means those nuclear facilities in the immediate term, they can control the power supply to many ukrainians, what is on the world's mind is what the russian forces could do if president putin ordered them to do something even more terrible to somehow preach one of those reactors. clearly we have seen it appears nothing is beyond putin's terrible imagination, carl and he todd. >> carley: jonathan hunt, thank you. zelenskyy is begging president biden for help in securing the sky. >> todd: the white house is

resisting, citing logistical issues. griff jenkins has details. >> griff: with no fly zone declared and sitting in plain sight in his office, defiant zelenskyy pleads with president biden for combat fighter jets. watch. >> told him for us, the most upon important today is the security in the sky. we cannot allow russia to be active. i'm sure that the president can do more, i'm sure he can. >> the administration is looking for ways to provide f-16s to poland so polls can give zelenskyy dozens of mig-29 fighter jets which ukrainians know how to fly. the white house says no decision has been made. >> press sect. psaki: there are number of challenging, practical questions, including how the trains would be transferred from poland to ukraine, right? are they going to fly? where will they depart from and

land? those are important questions. >> griff: poland has yet to decide if they would move forward, fearing it would bring a fight from russia. refueling tankers and air defense systems brings total number of deployed troops to 6000 in germany, poland and hungary and 54 million in refugee assistance and 350 million in military aid to ukraine. at home, yesterday nypd press conference gillibrand is warning of renewed cyber threats. >> there is increased risk russia will carry out cyber attacks, particularly against new york state infrastructure and individuals. we must act quickly to strengthen our cyber defenses to capture unwarrantd and unprovoked russian aggression

here. >> griff: should learn more today, house intelligence committee are holding hearings hearing from the intel community on the u.s. response to the war in ukraine. >> todd: bill hemmer has more. watch. >> bill: a couple developments here, this shaded area, sean, with the red and white stripe, largely countryside and segments of the russian army moved west from their location toward kyiv. they don't hold the ground, but little resistance, easy for the russians to move. the nuclear plant last week, and there is another nuclear plant north of this location we've denoted here on the map. talk about escape routes. how do you get out of here? everything in yellow is train, everything in blue is roadway. to take that road, have you to

go through an area that has been levelled and devastated by the russian army. >> carley: u.s. is ravaged by surging oil prices, projecting american strength. >> todd: a senator and purple heart recipient joins us now. josh, look, this is not a new revelation, we've known for decades this binary situation where bad guys often have all the oil. why do we lose sight of that so often? >> that's a great question. we've been sounding the alarm for years here in alaska and reality of the situation, last year we imported 200 million from putin's russia, paid him $20 billion to do it. we bought more oil from russia last year than we are allowed to produce in alaska. the administration seems to shut us down, anwar, written into

federal law, maybe around seven billion barrels, conservative estimate, the willow project, natural petroleum reserve. we have 500 million barrels there. the keystone pipeline, i could go on and on and on. i think environmental groups have been really loud over the past several years and cited each one of the shutdowns, cited a huge victory for humanity and public health and civil rights and social responsibility. i'd say they couldn't be more wrong and i think the war with russia proves it f. we want to avoid war, i was listening to the beginning of the program and i think it is really appropriate that we send arms to ukrainian. i spent two years in ground war. i've been shot at and blown up and every bullet and every one

of the weapons that fired them at me, including the mortar that killed my friend and wounded me was made in russia, i don't think we should rely on russia for anything and i think the best time to do it was yesterday. the second best time is today to start allowing us to produce resources responsibly during alaska. >> carley: we have numbers on alaskan oil production. in 1988, oil production in alaska was 2 million barrels per day. 2020, number down to 448,000. if alaska were allowed to drill more, how quickly would we see gas prices go down? >> it takes a while, we should have been do thanksgiving five years ago when everybody was sounding the alarm or earlier. one of the first things the biden administration did, we had leased anwar, had been trying to do that for better part of 40

years. takes several years from the time we open permitting to see barrels of oil in the pipeline. i think we should start now. that is why you see the biden administration, we want to cut reliance on russian oil, looking to iran or saudi arabia or venezuela, none of these countries are any kind of socially responsible and none of them have more environmentally friendly practices than we do here at producing oil. time is to start now and it will take a little while. same was true with the pipeline when we had energy crisis in the 70s. we start the to produce and it didn't solve the problem immediately. it was the best thing we could have done. >> todd: do you think the president will ban russian oil? >> i hope so. the way to do that is energy independence and all our allies,

seeing germany is reliant on gas from russia. that empowers russia to do the stuff, knowing other nations that might be able to stop them are in a pickle because we're all reliant on oil and turned them into a gas station. that needs to change. it is socially responsible and environmentally friendly thing to do to produce our own resources in the united states and alaska. >> todd: josh reva k, we appreciate your service and your time this morning. >> thank you. >> todd: refugees flee from russian invasion, 100,000 ukrainians and others made their way back into the country, vowing to fight putin's forces. >> carley: joining us from the battleground, a ukrainian soldier going by casper for his safety. thank you for taking the time to join us. what are you seeing and experiencing as you fight this war? >> greetings, america.

it is great honor to be here today. so you are asking what i see, i see destruction, i see ruined lives, i see death. the most horrifying thing is i am seeing death not only of the military forces, i see death of civilians. they say this is for the militarizing of ukraine, but why then the schools, the usual human home getting caught. >> todd: that's a great question tochlt follow-up on that point when russia soldiers have been captured. i asked jonathan hunt, many of them are saying we thought this

was just a drill. casper, i don't know of any drills that involve shelling of civilians and in many cases, targeted attacks on civilians. do you believe the russian soldiers? >> yes, sorry for interrupting you. you see, i saw them, too. i guess they are -- didn't know where they were going. you se -- so they take their phone and documents and send them saying, you are going for a drill, going for training, basic military training, nothing special. then they started blasting. the soldiers were shot at, the vehicles were destroyed, were enjoyed.

so they were scared. they weren't prepared for that. >> carley: casper, there are ongoing negotiations to get poland to give ukraine mig fighter jets, how critical are the planes in win thanksgiving war? >> well, you see, 24 february when the war began, almost every airport got bombed and destroyed, so i think they won't help, but it will be hard for them to get off. you see, i think the more significant thing is to close aerial space above ukraine for all, no more rockets will flew in our town. no more planes bomb our cities.

>> todd: casper, do you know where your family is? is your family safe? >> i can tell you where exactly they are, but i know they are still safe. i can tell, can tell the same for the guys from my platoon. >> carley: yeah, you know, casper, the russian military is larger than the ukrainian military, but you and your fellow soldiers have been more success envelope beating back russian troops than vladamir putin ever participated. why do you think that is? >> well, you see, we have been -- there was conflict in 2014. many people got trained there, many special forces, many skilled warriors are still here.

know how to make molotov cocktails. i can say we were prepared. >> todd: we've been reporting on peace talks over the course of last couple of days, what is only acceptable solution, only acceptable end to this conflict to you, casper? >> well, um, military force will go back to their home and will not burden us in any way forever, i guess. >> carley: casper, what is the conversation like between and you your fellow soldiers? is it hope? is it fear? is it anger? what is the feeling like among

you and the troops that are fight thanksgiving war on the ground? >> when the war just started, it was constant type of nobody knew what to do, but now we are growing strong. we are helping each other. we have volunteers that help us. besides, we felt we were getting help from afar. i should mention, god loves ukraine. helped us a lot during this and helping us now. they aided us, they gifted us. >> carley: right. casper, you have the world outside of one country, at your back. we wish you the best of luck. thank you so much for joining us this morning, please stay safe

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>> carley: it is 25 after the hour, i'm jackie ibanez with headlines this morning. pentagon extending national guard in dc for two days for the trucker convoy. the convoy protesting vaccine mandates by driving at minimum speed limit on the causeway, causing traffic. republican senator cruz johnson set to meets with convoy today. dhs source says there are unprecedented numbers of migrants in the rio grande valley sector, since october 1, a 92% increase over the same time last year. the source reporting this have

been over 30,000 unark companied kids, 185% increase and rgv has seen 67,000 family units, whopping 206% spot. dramatic moment caught on camera as police officers and firefighters catch a baby dropped from the second floor of a burning apartment building. it is incredible. check it out. >> come on. i got him. >> go, go, go. >> move. i got him. >> jackie: true heroes, new jersey first responder saw the father sticks his head out with clouds of smoke around him. he dropped his son out that window to the officers before he jumped out himself. officials say both the child and father were treated for minor injuries. the cause of the fire is under investigation this morning. >> todd: wow. unbelievable. thank you. one alabama family on a mission

to bring home the little girl they are trying to adopt. the dad involved in this joins me now. trent, do you know where the little girl is right now? >> i believe we know about the area she's in, in ukraine. from what i understand, she's still there and hasn't moved. >> todd: describe the process so far of trying to rescue her. >> well, we've been trying to adopt for a while, of course that is halted. so, you know, right now, we're just praying, trying for a rescue mission to get her out. i am now in romania and so my goal is mountains will be moved and we'll see her come across the border.

>> todd: once out of ukrainian, our prayers are with that, obviously, how long until she can come to the u.s.? >> we don't know. we're hoping we can take her to the embassy and get her visa, if that is done, we're reaching out to politicians and senators and anyone who can helps and through the news media here to try to help that get pushed through. you know, we want that, but we're focusing, our focus is to get orphans and get our ark ngelina to safety. >> todd: hopefully politicians are watching right now. we are seeing pictures of the beautiful angelina on the screen. what can you tell us about her? >> she's just a kind girl, she's very sweet. she's very giving. we hosted her in the u.s. this

past christmas and everyone fell in love with her and just her kindness. people would come to our house and she would go into our pantry and give out food to everyone. she fell in love with our family. of course we fell in love with her. so she did reach out to me on media platform about three weeks ago and i saw her and i was just elated. i asked her if she was okay and she gave me a thumbs up she is okay right now. that is the last time we were able to communicate with her. >> todd: please keep us posted on angelina's whereabouts and when you are reunited, we want to have you back. praying for your family and angelina. >> carley: price of gas is hitting stunning new highs.

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>> todd: gas prices reaching a new record high and the white house refuses to say if it will ban russian oil. >> carley: brooke singman has more on the energy crisis. >> brooke: good morning, the white house is warning americans and the world of a long and difficult road ahead as russia continues invasion of ukraine issue not committing to a ban on russian oil just yet. >> press sect. psaki: no decision has been made at this point by the president about a ban on importing oil from russia and those discussions are

ongoing internally and also with our counterparts and partners in europe and around the world. >> brooke: gas prices are surging across the united states and a new poll says 70% of americans support a ban on imported oil. president biden should focus on domestic energy production in order toise the crisis, listen to this. >> he believes in buying american, except american energy. god blessed this nation with natural resources, why not make america stronger and the world safer? why does joe biden want to deal with the worst people in the world? >> brooke: president biden facing backlash from members of his own party, reports say he is mulling a trip to saudi arabia in an effort to increase oil

imports. ilhan omar saying it shouldn't be in strength with saudis who are causing the worst humanitarian crisis on the planet in yemen. kamala harris and pete buttigieg criticized as tone deaf for promoting electric vehicles in response to rising gas prices. >> carley: thank you. i think the biden administration is getting smacked with reality when it comes to both republicans criticizing them on this front and democrats. bob menendez talking about the fact the biden administration might replace russian oil with venezuelan oil and we should not breathe new life into their reign of torture and murder. the quinnipiac poll shows 71% of americans back the russian oil ban even if it meant further

increasing gas prices. the biden administration is not willing to do it, i continuing comes down to the environmental groups, which means biden is more interested in campaign funds than saving money for the american people. >> todd: great point. these green new dealers missed the key point or they are making us miss the key point. solar and wind may help my home, how will that help my car? i can't drive on solar and wind, i need the stuff on the screen. what does biden do? sends out kamala and pete, but not focus on gas? that is like going on tv on super bowl sunday and talk about the following preseason, makes no sense. >> carley: average price of electric vehicle is $56,000. worry about $4 gas, buy an

expensive car. >> todd: they don't live in reality, it is insane. >> carley: one tech company is undertaking full-scale effort to evacuate employees based in the war-torn country. here to tell us more, chief executive of fract cal analytics. good morning. you are one of the ceos that has employees all over the world, including 81 employee necessary ukraine. tell us about their situation, what are they dealing with right now? >> yeah, so many of them are in different parts of the world, about 20 managed to leave ukraine. we have a quarter that are in lviv, which is somewhat safe and a few in central ukraine and whole bunch of them in kyiv, a few in dangerous situations as

we speak and some managed to find some ways of being safe right now. it is a situation we are monitoring and doing our best to evacuate them as much as possible. we had some success, we started a few weeks before this happened. we had a town hall for our ukrainian employees and then that is when we realized that there were three different solutions. one was to transport them out of ukrainian and have them work in mumbai and other areas or have air b&b type ark commendations for them and give them financial help for march and april and give them euros so they could move when they had to move. the crisis seemed like the invasion wasn't seen as likely

on the ground and the invasion happend and we are fighting hard to make sure our people are safe and able to get them out of danger zone as quickly as possible. >> carley: wow, yeah. you are asking your employees to check in online every single day so that you know they are safe. what are they telling you about their day-to-day struggles, especially kyiv, an area that could get hit harder down the road. >> some of them had, one employee has had her home reduced to rubble through an explosion that happened. she was traveling for one full day and now she's still in ver tough situation, some of them are without food and water. some are them are basically they have guns and they are ready to fight there is full spectrum of response, some are in a tough situation and some are ready to fight and ready to contribute to

the resistance from ukraine. it is inspiring sosee how well they have managed through the situation and how well they are copeing and heartbreaking to see the struggle our people are going through. >> carley: i know some ceos have been in touch with the biden administration to talk about how the war is affecting their workers. have you had conversations with the administration? >> no. not really. we have been trying to do this as best as possible. i think we are exploring options by which some ukrainian employees have work visas in various parts of the world and canada and other countries, as well. this point in time, the response is company level. >> carley: unbelievable story and your willingness and effort to get your workers out of harm's way is admirable. thank you for coming on, joining

us and telling us how this war is impacting your company and your workers. thank you so much. >> thank you, carley. >> carley: you're welcome, todd. >> todd: parents of american marine demanding to meet with president biden. their son is locked up in a russian prison and they say he is being refused medical treatment and what has china learned they could use to attack taiwan? working together to overpower the west. don't go anywhere.

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>> carley: welcome back, i'm jackie ibanez with headlines this morning. guantanamo bay prisoner suspected of trying to join the 9/11 hijackers has been sent back to his home country. he was detained in afghanistan after he was turned away at the orlando airport in 2001. the move is drawing backlash. he is the second prisoner released under the biden administration, biden intends to close the facility.

growing concern from the international atomic energy association that stress and prolonged shifts might be impacting the staff's ability to perform duties. the agency confirming another nuclear research site near kharkiv was damaged by russian shelling, but did not cause an increase in radiation levels at the site. todd. >> todd: thank you, what is china learning from the invasion? our next guest lays out how beijing could be preparing invasion of taiwan using lessons learned from ukraine. vice president of foreign policy for the heritage foundation joins us. what are china's main takeaways? >> well, not the ones they thought it was going to be. i think china and russia share common view that the west was

weak and divided. that was obviously why putin moved to realize his dreams of reabsorbing the post-soviet states and dominating central europe and i think china is going to move on taiwan following similar thinking about expanding power in asia. here is what i don't think china was prepared for. this has gone on long sxer been more destructive than the russians expected. the chinese didn't expect that. china has a partner, which has become economic basket case overnight. they'll be turning to russia looking for help. the chinese can't bail the russian out. and the chinese found themselves in situation of defend whatting is indefensible. not just russia's illegal war, but the

human rights abuses and the chinese are having to lie to their own peep bell and put egg face to the world and it put them in an uncomfortable position. what china is looking at, they are not sure if russia will turn out to be a good long-term ally for them or actually a burden for china to bear. >> todd: interesting. does china look at the international coalition formed against russia, basically putting russia on an island with few allies, syria, north korea, not folks you want on your team. does china say if we invade, we could be similar pariahs. or do they think they are in good shape pause the community is intertwined with them economically? >> i think they realize that the west is at an inflection point and where are they going to go

beyond this crisis? obviously if the united states and nato rearm that impacts not just russia, but china, as well. if america is secure in own backyard and transatlantic community, that is not good for russia f. we have more military capacity, that capacity could move globally, that is not good for china. if the united states gets serious about energy sdmpdz europe gets serious about policy, those are moves that give you confidence to move forward with economic decoupling. that is worrying for china, as well. if you look at china's global gdp numbers, even by china's standards and all the faking, their economic recovery is not that strong. so their economic recovery is

not that strong, the west may find its footing and bounce back and russia may be a less useful ally there is potential to come out not looking stronger in the -- there are other sides, as well. look, this administration wants to do oon aircrafts ran deal, backdoor for russia to escape sanctions, they can launder everything through iran f. that goes forward, chinese say, maybe the west isn't serious. i think they are like we are, where the west goes with the crisis. >> todd: understood. like our adversaries try to put us in unwinnable situations, in light of the strain, now is the time to put pressure on russia and china and strain the relationship even further. lieutenant james carafano, we

appreciate your time. >> carley: why did president biden shut down the keystone pipeline? we're talking to one worker who lost his job on the renewed push for u.s. energy independence. also on deck this morning, keep it right here on "fox and friends first." not-for-profit i

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>> carley: united nations says two million people have fled ukraine, leeding humanitarian agencies completely overwhelmed cht the u.k.s government says 18 civilians, including two children, have opinion killed in the latest russian airstrikes on a residential neighborhood. you are watching "fox and friends first," i'm carley shimkus. tokd >> todd: i'm todd piro. the pentagon looks to send more