try boost® today. arthel: ukrainian leaders warning putin's invasion has had a devastating airstrike on a mill military training base just 10 miles away from from nato ally poland. the attack killed at least 35 people and wounded more than 130 others. the western ukraine base had been a hub for american and nato forces in the past with u.s. troops stationed there just last month. hello, everyone. this is a brand new hour of "fox news live." i'm arthel neville. hi, eric. eric: hello, everyone, thank you

for joining us. i'm eric shawn. that strike on the training center is part of a new series of russian attacks in the western part of ukraine. you can see on this map just how close that is to the polish border. we have been reporting on the growing refugee crisis. that city is the hub for the civilians who are fleeing the war-torn country in what has become europe's fastest growing refugee crisis since world war ii. it is also growing more dangerous for those who are trying to report on disaster. american journalist brent renaud was shot and killed by russian forces in a suburb of kyiv while he was filming refugees who were trying to escape. meantime, vladimir putin's troops said to be closing in on the capital city. russian state media releasing footage of what it claims are military members of the russian forces heading toward the ukrainian capital, heading down from the north. arthel: and we have live fox team coverage across the war

zone. trey yingst is standing by in kyiv. but we're first going to go to mike tobin live in lviv. mike. >> reporter: and, arthel, these strikes, the most recent strikes in the western part of country was so far to the west, they were seen on the poll herbicide of the border. -- polish side of the border. the images were recorded inland -- in poland. the international peace keeping and security center has been used for years to train ukrainian forces. florida national guardsmen were there in february working with ukrainian forces, they left just before the invasion. it is only 60 miles from where paratroopers with the 82nd airborne are currently deployed. now, 35 if people were killed in this latest round of strikes, 145 injured. a lot of the injured taken to lviv, ukraine with, some of the severe cases taken elsewhere. ukrainians say the strikes were

launched from ships in the sea of sea of azov. this is the third airstrike in the western part of ukraine in three days. arthel, back to you. arthel: mike, are you getting the sense that not only ukrainian forces, but those civilians who are out so bravely fighting alongside them, are you getting the sense that they're able to, you know, readjust as quickly as these russian forces seem to now be moving towards kyiv especially? >> reporter: well, as they are moving in to kyiv, you definitely see people entrenching in their positions. there was a great eagerness on the part of the ukrainians to defend particularly the capital city of kyiv there. and what we have seen with all of these besieged city -- mariupol, car keefe and -- kharkiv and others -- is that they are holding the line. and that, of course, is causing the russians to respond with

greater force. they back up and respond with the longer range weapons which, of course, is more discriminate. so as the fight intensifies, you see more casualties and more civilian casualties, arkansas hell. arthel: and then, of course, the curfew is in there where you are, lviv are. it's 10:03. have you been able to, earlier in the day, mike, see civilians walking around, or are they just hunkering down for fear of what might happen? what's the situation like? >> reporter: here in the western part of the country people go about their tasks. the streets do fill up during the day, but they are very much on a war footing. the presence of soldiers is on just about every street. you see the buildings that are sandbagged, the historical artifacts, pieces of art in the center of town are all sandbagged. alcohol has been banned from the town. you still have restaurants open, but the saloons are closed because the mayor wants people to keep it serious.

he says they'll celebrate when they have repelled the invaders. arthel? arthel: absolutely. mike tobin live from lviv, ukraine. mike, thank you very much. eric. eric: let's go to kyiv where the situation is very tense. the suburbs rapidly deteriorating, we are told, as the russian forces are closing in on the capital city. officials warning that a major attack on kyiv is imminent. trey yingst is live for us in kyiv as the russian soldiers ask forces -- and forces, apparently, are closing in nearby. good evening, trey. >> reporter: eric, good afternoon. the ukrainians are bracing for bloody days ahead in kyiv, soldiers dug in across this city waiting for russian forces to move forward. we bring you a tragic update about journalist brent brent renaud, a journalist and filmmaker who was killed in irpin, just outside of the ukrainian capital of kyiv.

he was shot at a checkpoint if alongside his colleague. irpin has been the focus of many evacuations, the mayor says only 10,000 people remain in the city. and i want you to listen to what this journalist colleague had to say about what happened as these two came under fire earlier today. >> we crossed the checkpoint, and they start shooting at us. so the driver turned around, and they kept shooting two of us, my friend brent renaud, he's been shot and left behind. >> reporter: the tragic stories unfolding just northwest of the city are similar to what we are hearing about in the northeastern part of this city. the russians are closing in, and they are indiscriminately firing on civilians and soldiers alike. looked at what it was like on the front lines today as we spoke with soldiers who are preparing for a further russian advance. >> translator: there hay be an offensive today. they have strengthened their forces. each time their column is ready, we hit them. >> reporter: to the east of

kyiv, ukrainian soldiers wait for enemy troops. a sign above them reads: russia, welcome to hell. this is the ian front of this conflict -- eastern front. just a few days ago russian forces attempted to bring a tank con convoy down this road, they were hit hard by ukrainian forces who were able to create a new front line. there was a big column of enemy tanks, one soldier says, approximately a hundred military vehicles. they were shooting at residential buildings. >> russia does this, okay? >> reporter: soldiers if they were afraid, and they responded, no. they the had very few words for us, one saying glory to ukraine. eric? eric: trey, just spectacular reporting from there tonight the just after 10 p.m.. we saw the soldiers with whom you were be with. what about the civilians, the people, are they now hunkered down in the basements is the and subway tunnels? do they have their molotov cocktails and weapons ready? how are they going to confront these russians sent by one man

and one man only, virginia myrrh putin? -- vladimir putin? how will they confront them? >> reporter: those who can stay and fight are preparing to do so. as you mentioned, they're making molotov cocktails, civilians picking up weapons. i can't tell you how many people we've met in the streets of this country who are programmers or lawyers or doctors or scientists, and today they are defenders of their country, of a sovereign ukraine. and and so many in the past three weeks have just put their lives aside really with no choice butted to do so and picked up -- butted to do so and picked up arms for what is expected to be a russian invasion mt. capital city. we've already seen an invasion into the rest of the country. many major population centers, mariupol, kharkiv, they've seen the images. they understand the destruction russia is capable of, and they are determined to fight this off and not let it happen mt. ukrainian capital. eric: ask is as you talk, we're looking at president zelenskyy visiting some of the troops.

he really has been a remarkable leader for his country. president volodymyr zelenskyy leading his country against the russian bear and the evil of vladimir putin. trey, thank you. let's now bring in retired army lieutenant colonel davis who was deployed four times, now senior fellow, military expert for defense priorities. thank you for joining us, colonel. your sense, pick up from what trey just said, lawyers, average people, workers, the citizens of that country ready to confront and, they say, repel a russian invasion. what do you expect to happen over the next few days? >> well, i'm looking at this from just a combat fundamental perspective and from a military history perspective. it's probably not going to work out very well percent people of ukraine. i mean, nobody can question

their courage and their e tenacity and their willingness to sacrifice for their country. but the problem is when you go against trained professional soldiers, it's just not a fair fight for a civilian because it's not just a matter of shooting a gun or throwing a molotov cocktail. you have to have tactics and strategy and know how to employ those things, and the civil yaps, they -- civilians, they just don't know how. lots could die in this an attempt to defend their country in a process that may not forestall the end. i really worry about that, and that's why i'm hopeful these negotiations that are going on possibly in the in israel but have been going on at the highest levels even within europe and is putin and zelenskyy's also talking, i hope those bear fruit for the people of ukraine. eric: of course, we all do. meanwhile, you've got the russians attacking the base in ukraine just 50 miles from the -- 15 miles prosecute border of poland. what happens if putin's forces

are able to cut off the convoys that are resupplying ukrainian forces? that, obviously, was a attempt with that attack to do that. >> right. that's exactly right. you could see that the strategy that russia is using is really starting to come into focus now where they have already kyiv cut off on at least two full areas, and they're moving toward the third one and, in fact, almost have three sides cut off. if they're able to successfully get rid of the defenders in the sumy area just to the east, they could potentially cut off all four sides. if they cut off the ability to resupply with ammunition, food, water the defenders, then it's going to make it even more difficult to defend or to prevent the fall of the city. and so russia is expressly hitting those forces coming in, the training area there, and they said just last night, actually, that they are now going to probably be more proactive many hitting the

convoys that are coming in from the west so he can prevent those weapons from getting this. that's why it's so important that as nato, as bad as it is in there, we've got to keep this contained so we don't spill beyond the borders and potentially trigger an article v from nato. eric: yeah, explain that. obviously, if a nato country, poland, gets hit, that could potentially legal arely cause a retaliation by the u.s. and our allies. what -- how do you stop that -- >> yeah, it -- eric: -- can that be stopped? is the biden administration doing the right thing? >> well, and that's to why it's, we're walking a fine line because we want to provide, you know, the ammunition and help for the people of ukraine and their armed forces to defend themselves, but we have to be careful that we don't go too far beyond that. potentially, those migs that people were talking about might have been too far. the establishment of a no-fly zone definitely would have been too far because it would have put us in direct potential for

conflict with russia which would have drawn us potentially into a war k. that's why it's tough because it's kind of in a gray zone of how much of this stuff can we put in there to where russia feels it doesn't cross a line. it is conceivable, if russia feels like they're suffering a lot of casualties from the stuff out of poland, it's possible they may hit the depot in poland and say they consider that a legitimate military target. now, we wouldn't agree with that, but we don't want to find out if they get to a position where out of desperation they hit the area many poland where we have troops that are actually assembling a lot of the supplies. eric: and finally, what do you see in the next few days? do you see that possibility? or some are saying have the president and nato call putin's bluff. give them those migs president zelenskyy has been begging for a no-fly zone. >> yeah, that would be cast. -- disaster. i cannot tell you how bad of a gamble that would be. we already called putin's bluff

that he would invade by just not taking nato advancement off the table, and he made that bluff, and now he went across. so we dare not do it again because, look, putin is completely committed to this. his to whole regime now rests on it. it would be a bad gamble to think he would back down from a no-fly zone. more than likely, he would ratchet up and accelerate. and we don't want to put him in that position, ironically, because it could backfire on us. and as bad as we sees the here, we don't want to see a polish city having these kinds of destructions or slovakia, hungary or anybody e else in nato and then potentially, god forbid, nuclear exchange. that is not out of the question, and we don't even want to take take a chance of that because of the catastrophic if results. eric: an even more dire ahead, lieutenant colonel dan yell davis, thank you for your service and thank you for your insight today.

>> thank you. arthel: well, eric, the russian strike on that training base in western ukraine brings putin's brutality dangerously close to nato. and that raises questions about the u.s. and its european allies continuing to help ukraine. national security correspondent jennifer griffin has more live at the pentagon. >> reporter: hi, arthel. after russia's cruise missile strike near the polish border, national security adviser jake sullivan said u.s. and nato weapons shipments to ukraine will continue. >> we believe we will continue to be able to flow substantial amounts of military assistance ask weapons to the front lines. of course these convoys are going through a war zone, and so to describe them as safe wouldn't quite be accurate. but we believe that we have methods and systems in place to be able to continue to support the ukrainians. >> reporter: on saturday the white house announced it had authorized another $200 million in security assistance to

ukraine, assistance that goes overland into ukraine from a variety of border crossings from nato article v countries. russia's deputy foreign minister warned that russia would target these convoys, those shipments of weapons. hours later, at 6 a.m. local time, a barrage of russian cruise missiles struck the international peacekeeping and security center in car vi about 12 miles from the border. >> translator: rockets started to fall 10 kilometers from the border with europe with. tomorrow they may fall on the territory of poland where our wives and children are staying now. i want to call on all of europe, save yourselves. save us. because it will be too late tomorrow. >> reporter: this is the same facility that had been used by the u.s. national guard and special operations forces including these florida national guard trainers who were nameeded at that base right up until 48

hours before the russian invasion on february 24th to train ukrainian forces on those javelin missiles, stinger missiles and other tactics to fend off the russian military. this was a favorite spot for congressional delegations for years and nato leaders since 2015. bipartisan groups and defense department officials would visit the base to see the training which increased after putin invaded and annexed croix mia in 2014. meantime, today in the capital of kyiv, president zelenskyy visited a hospital to speak to and comfort injured ukrainian troops of kept russian forces out of the capital for 18 days. he gave out medals for bravery, for their courageous actions. too many examples to count over the past 18 days. arthel: absolutely. and he's right at the forefront of displaying true bravery. regarding that strike on the training base, jen, does this bring about a new sense of urgency? >> you know, i think there's already a great sense of urgency

that that i've been reporting on right here from the pentagon as well as on capitol hill and at the white house. the amount of weaponry that has been flowing across the border into ukraine has been in the hundreds of millions of dollars. the question is if russia moves into that area and continues targeting those roads and supply lines, how much is going to be able to continue. i think that's anyone's guess. so the sense of urgency is greater than ever. the question is how much can they get into that country before the russians move into western ukraine and to cut off those supply lines. arthel? arthel: and if they, if they start, you know, cutting off the supply lines and attacking them whichever way they may, then how does that escalate things? >> reporter: well, it would escalate if russia were to fire across the border into poland which is, of course, a nato article v nation. and that is why u.s. troops are

not going into ukraine, they are not part of those convoys. those are, you know, there's a handoff taking praise, and those are ukrainians who are driving those vehicles. so nato is not going into ukraine, but it's getting meetingty close right now with 12 niles from the -- 12 miles from the border those cruise missile strikes, and there's a great deal of, you know, there's a -- it's getting very close, and nobody can say where this ends and whether putin will, will strike across the border into poland. that will put nato into a whole different situation and a whole different set of decision making. arthel: a whole different ball game. jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. thank you, jen. >> reporter: thank you. eric: well, here's some news, former president barack obama says that he has tested positive for covid-19. the 44th president tweeting moments ago that he feels fine other than having a scratchy throat.

mr. obama said that his wife, former first lady michelle obama, did test negative for the coronavirus. both the obamas are vaccinated, and the former president encouraged other americans to get vaccinated as well, and here at fox news we certainly wish both mr. and mrs. obama the very best of health and, hope any, a scratchy throat is the only thing that will affect the president since he has test thed positive for the coronavirus. back in ukraine billions of ukrainians have led to -- millions of ukrainians have fled to poland leading to the fastest growing humanitarian crisis there since world war ii. the majority are headed to poland, we will have a live report from those lines coming up. plus, the war also being waged on the digital battlefields as we enter a new phase of disinformation. how is ukraine combating putin and putin's propaganda machine as ukrainian parliament member, a brave woman of the resistance against putin, you seen her

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arthel: breaking news on the war in ukraine. sources telling fox news that russia has asked china for military and economic assistance as putin ramps up the bloody invasion. now, china has tried to avoid publicly supporting russia but has said it will continue to buy russian oil and gas. tomorrow national security adviser jake sullivan is going to sit down with chinese diplomats to discuss ramping up pressure on putin and his inner circle, and i'm sure topic will come up as well. again, sources telling fox news that russia has asked china for military and economic assistance as putin ramps up his barbaric invasion of ukraine. eric: new satellite images reveal the destruction in hard-hit mariupol as putin's relentless assault on ukraine continues. the photos show fires and artillery craters from those attacks on the southern ukrainian city. alexis mcadams is live here in our new york city newsroom with

the latest on the devastation that the russians have caused in that city. alexis? >> reporter: hi, eric. yeah, the devastation and the death toll keeps on climbing. that video i've seen today is as bad as it's been since day 1. since day 1, putin has tried to take over the capital city of kyiv. by the hour troops are inching closer and closer. overmight major shelling leading to a large fire. [inaudible conversations] >> reporter: the people you just saw are just trying to extinguish that large blaze. large clouds of thick, black smoke have really been hanging over that food depot just near kyiv. no one was injured by that shelling, though it's a sign russian troops are not slowing down. today dozens killed and injured at this military base. that attack happened just a few miles from ukraine's western border with poland. it's a part of the country that

previously had not been targeted. [gunfire] >> reporter: and with that shelling really comes a lot of this gunfire too. now, in irpin it was pummeled again overnight, about 12 miles northwest of kyiv, and putin has hit that area hard. bodies of soldiers and innocent civilians have laid in the streets there. the mayor said russian troops are trying to take full control. >> translator: 70% of our city is now ukrainian territory with ukrainians living there. 30% is controlled by russian occupiers, but we are doing everything to rib rate 100% of our city. >> reporter: that's another mayor who's trying to hold things down in his city there in ukraine. officials say russia's invasion has killed more than 85 kids and

left more than 100 other kids wounded. ♪ ♪ ♪ muck if. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: now, the singing there right outside of lviv where actually some of that shelling took place is a way that people are trying to keep the morale up. the casualties come as russia's deliberate and brutal shelling of civilians continue. limited success to grant safe passage for people trapped. ukrainian president zelenskyy said authorities have managed to

evacuate nearly 125,000 people from combat zones but so many people are trying to get out of there, disabled as well as you try to see -- as you see on the video, getting out in wheelchairs and stretchers as well. eric: iowa will lex sis mcadams, thank you. >> it is impossible to say how many days we still have to free ukrainian lands, but we can say we will do it because we want it. it's a patriotic war against a very stubborn enemy which doesn't pay attention to his own soldiers -- to throw them into the hell of this war. arthel: ukrainian president zelenskyy taking to instagram to rally ukrainians highlighting another layer of putin's war on the country. the digital battlefield. ukrainian lawmakers are using social media to rally some citizens and to get their message out to the world as russia launches waves of digital

prop propaganda. ukrainian parliament member kyra rudic tweeting: it is so important to deliver our message. russia has been pouring money into international media to support its narrative. she joins me now. thank you very much, but first, if i could, i want to begin with reports of russian forces having kidnappedded a second mayor. can you verify this? what more can you tell us about it, and what is your plea to nato and u.s. and european countries? >> hello. thank you so much for having me. so, first of all, russia does execute on its plan do kidnap mayors of the smallest cities ask trying to -- the local councils of the cities to vote to create so-called separate democratic republics. this is their plan. it was, first of all, it was to take kyiv and do it here, but

once they failed to execute on any major cities,er the trying to do it with the smaller cities. of course this is one of russia's war crimes, to kidnap authorities and and try to replace them with their own puppets, and ukrainian people totally deny these new authorities. but this, again, as to the list of cruel, unbelievable and devastating things that putin ask and russian soldiers are doing in ukraine. and i am happy to say that yesterday one of the local councils of the city of kherson was gathered in secrecy, and they voted to stay a part of ukraine with. they will never be something separate, and there was a word to russian soldiers who want them otherwise. so ukrainian people are not falling, and we will be standing up united. there will be no separate

republics not now, not ever. arthel: i love, i love it. what details can you tell us about these russian false flag operations to lure belarus into the war and have you or president zelenskyy been able to speak with the belarusian president, alexander puke she can coe? >> first of all, he is not making any decisions by himself, so it doesn't have any, it wouldn't have any result, doesn't have any meaning to be talking to him. he's, right, another puppet of putin's regime, and this is how putin can only operate, only have his puppets. he cannot be working with free people like ukrainians are. this is why he's attacking us, because we have democracy, because we have freedom, and we are not willing to give it up. and my plea to the nato countries remain the same, it always remain the same. look how hard we are fighting on the ground.

look, there is no one single victory that vertebra shah -- russia can say, here, we won on the ground. the only way that they're winning or trying to win is by bombarding our peaceful cities. this is where they can dominate, in the air, and this is where we need help and we do need support. we understand that nato does not want to give us the no-fly zone, so give us the weaponry so we can create a no-fly zone for ourselves. look how hard we are fighting. we will not be giving any inch of ukrainian soil to them. just give us something to fight, and we will be fighting, and we will be opposing them as hard as we're doing. this is so crucial for us to bring this war, and that's why we need the support from the air. we can call this no-fly zone, we can call it jets, we can call it anything. we will accept anything because we do need weaponry to fight russians in the area, to stop all this cruelty, attacking nuclear plants, attacking

peaceful cities, attacking the refugee convoys, trying to get this kidnapping of mayors and killing the civilians. all of these things can go away. we are ready to fight for it to go away. please support us whenever and wherever you can with giving us the additional weaponry for the fighting. arthel: and about that additional weaponry that'll be coming in through poland, are you concerned that russia will try to cut off those passage ways for the additional weaponry to get to the troops there on the ground fightingsome. >> absolutely. we understand that putin is not interested in ending this war. he was very add minute. -- adamant. he said i'm taking poland, lithuania and so there is no way he will be letting out additional weapons and coming to

ukraine, and this is why we need to get as soon as possible, fighting and protecting it. because this is the place for ukrainians to win this war. and this will be one of their next may juror goals, one of the goals the to to protect cove, the capital. take the peaceful convoys out of the occupies cities right now, and the third goal is to safely get the weaponry and the support that we are getting from the nato countries into the country so we can exercise them. arthel: i have about another 30 minutes -- 30 seconds with you, beg your pardon. but i want to circle back to the top which was, you know, many russians, russians don't believe their sons and daughters who live in ukraine and are telling them what putin is really doing in ukraine. i mean, what impact does putin's disinformation war have on the brutal and barbaric military war that putin is waging on ukraine

and her very proud citizens? >> the informational warfare is extremely important. that's why he's keeping the whole large country of russia in the dark where people think that whatever is happening in the world is simply pick fake. and this is why we treasure our freedom so much, because we can trust not the things that our government tell us, but we see by our eyes, by what the journalists are telling us ask what the world knows is true. by talking to different different countries, i have soon how much money was invested into promoting putin's narrative, and i know that we do have to to oppose it with a free media, about what is going on, with the pictures and information about the casualties, about all the victims, about what is really going on in ukraine. arthel: yes. parliament member keira rudik,

the world is with you. we hope the best for ukraine. thank you -- >> thank you so much. arthel: absolutely. thank you very much for your time. i'm sorry? >> glory to ukraine. arthel: yes, yorely to ukraine. >> thank you. eric: a plea for more help from an inspiring and inspirational women, glory to ukraine, as she says. she just warned that vladimir putin wants poland next, doing that, putting refugees also in danger. alex hogan is in poland, she's in krakow which is that country's second largest city with the lathe's on -- latest on this. >> reporter: hi, eric. so as more and more refugees flood into poland from ukraine, we're not only seeing presence at the border, but across the country as well. this is the train station in krakow cow, it's about a 3-hour drive from the border, and you can see it's just packed with

people. take a look for yourself. there's dogs on the floor, children sleeping here. this will likely be where they spend the night at least tonight. there are refugee centers set up across the country, but for many people they don't have enough teem to get there, or they simply don't have the knowledge of how they do do the get there. we're also seeing volunteers trying to distribute that information, and i but but there is criticism taha some of the information is not atickets properly and there is not enough if help despite the flooding of people descending on poland offering theirport and offering their -- many families who will spend their night here with nowhere else to go, especially when people don't have connections or family hebb members to contact in other countries that they could stay with for now. and as ukrainians flee the country, we're hearing more stories of heartbreak as they

continue to pour out of this part of the world. people who have made it out safe, they're the luck lucky ones. still, there's tremendous disappointment in the u-turn of their daily lives and how devastating it is for each and every one of them. >> very hard for us. we can't take everything what we have. >> reporter: inside the cra uh-uh cow train sayings -- krakow train station, the mayor says the city is overwhelmed. guidance of where to apply for jobs and where to go to school for children. there are food stations as well as tech stations. one woman left ukraine really only bringing her cat and her husky. >> all my -- is with -- he's out of food. that's the problem.. i'm out of food, i can survive for a day.

>> reporter: that woman, again, only brought her cat and her dog before arrive aring here. we're seeing time and time again volunteers here waiting to greet people to arrive who don't know what is the next step for them. unfortunately, that is the reality for 1.6 million people who have arrived here in poland. and as we know now, more than 2.5 million people in general have fled ukraine. eric? eric: a vivid reminder of this compelling crisis. alex hogan in krakow, thank you. arthel? arthel: well, continuing coverage of russia's war on ukraine with. the white house sending a stark warning to vladimir putin that if russian attacks cross into any member's territory, all nato countries would quickly come to its defense. this after a russian airstrike today got dangerously close, killing 35 people at a western ukrainian military training center just 10 miles from the border of nato member poland. we're going to go back now live to lviv where we find our mike

tobin. mike. >> reporter: and and, arthel, these strikes, the westernmost strikes of the war so far, were so far west they were seen on the polish side of the border. the images we can show you were shown on ukrainian tv, but they were recorded on the polish side of the border, and they show the strikes at the international peace keeping and security center in yavoriv, ukraine. this base is used by nato forces to train ukrainian forces. members of the florida national or guard were there as recently as february, and they pulled out just before, just before the invasion started. it was hit now by 8 missiles, the damage at that base is extensive. 145 people were injured, 35 were killed. the the injured, a lot of them taken to he jeev -- lviv, some of them to other locations. ukrainians say the attacks were launched primarily from ships in the sea of azoff and the back sea. there were some aircraft involves, they took off in

ukraine -- or many russia,ish say, according to ukrainians. 30 missiles were involved in the attack, ukrainian air defenses shot most of them down, only 8 of the missiles got through. this is the third airstrike in the western part of ukraine is in tree days. arthel? arthel: mike tobin live there in lviv, thank you very much. and, obvious, based on mike's reporting and we have seen the horror and heartbreak in ukraine. and is americans are stepping up to help through charities including the red cross. it is one of the organizations providing critical medical and mental health support to those fleeing ukraine. now, you can join fox by supporting red cross relief efforts. donate by going to redcross.org/foxforward. and so far fox news viewers have raised some $5.6 million to assist the red cross in ukraine, and the help is definitely

needed. again, it's redcross.org/foxfarred. thank you forrive -- foxforward. thank you for giving, it's very needed. >> putin is unlikely to be deterred by such setbacks and instead may double down to achieve ukrainian disarmament and neutrality to prevent it from further integrating with the united states and nato. eric: that's director of national intelligence avril haines warning the senate intelligence committee this past week that russian president vladimir putin, well, he won't stop his brutality anytime soon. many foreign policy experts say what we are seeing now is a repeat of the two wars russia waged on chechnya in the 1990s and early 2000s. then newly-elect president putin launched artillery strikes against the fierce independence movement there. he leveled entire cities. the death toll estimated in the hundreds of thousands.

will this happen again? national security lawyer and partner at foley and -- llp, christopher swift, joins us now who has experience with this. chris, we've seen putin's playbook not just in cher think -- chef any. >> ya, but in syria. should we really be surprised at this? >> we shouldn't be at all, eric. anyone who's paid attention to how the putin regime consolidated power inside russia, how it used attacks on civilians in chechnya and syria to promote its agenda, to try to achieve its objectives and is really try to grind down resistance to its rule, these are all part of the playbook we've seen from putin over the last 22 years. and anyone who's looked at chechnya would recognize much of what we're seeing in ukraine today. eric: we've had reports that say in syria the past years of just

the hospitals and schools and whole cities just flattened. do you think that is the world, are we prepared for that to happen in ukraine, for him to destroy these cities and just kill tens of thousands for his aims? >> i don't think the west is quite ready for what's yet to come. but if you take a look at the conflict in chechnya, we can get a sense of what the strategy will be. a 1-3 year period the putin regime, through its offensive there, took a population of about a million people and an area the size of connecticut, they displaced about half a million people, 50% of the population, and they killed between 10-20% of the population. so imagine a place the size of connecticut with a population roughly the size of new hampshire falling apart within a matter of a few years. now, the putin regime's going to have a much harder time in ukraine which is a country of 444 million people, bigger than

the state of texas -- 34 million. he's moving from counter force operations, that is to say targeting the ukrainian military, to what are called counter-value operations where you clintly target civilians and civilian infrastructure to do two things. the first is undermine economic foundations for military resistance to his invasion and the second is undermine moral and political foundations in such a way that breaks the will or at least tries to break the will of the people he's trying to occupy. eric: we've seen the will of the ukrainian people. it has been absolutely inspiring and just so awe-inspiring. what happens over the next few weeks many what happens if it gets more frustrated? what happens if his convoys get bogged down, or do you think they'll get past it? >> eric, the thing that's important to note is we're at day 18 in a campaign that's going to last months and potentially years.

and the cruelty that we're just starting to see with this shift towards counterforce to countervalue operations, the cruelty is the point. the cruelty is the objective of the operation. remember, putin doesn't simply want to, you know, depose the government inside if ukraine and then set up a puppet regime. that's only part of what he's after. what he's really looking for is finding a way to get the population and the economic base of ukraine more fully integrated into russia, in part -- as part of his efforts to restore what used to be russia's decisional sphere of influence in eastern europe and then expand that further, closer and closer to nato's borders. eric: and finally, chris, can putin be stopped? >> so, everything, putin won't stop until he's stopped. and one of the things that's very important for your viewers to understand based on his past operations in chechnya and the thing he helped the assad regime

do in syria is unless there is a firm line drawn and a firm line held, he's going to continue. so your viewers should over space of the next few weeks and months expect the attacks on civilians to get worse until the west and its ukrainian allies take steps to make sure that those kinds of attacks can't occur anymore. eric: and what type of steps could those be? >> well, look, this is been a lot said a about the united states establishing a no-fly zone or taking other offensive military measures inside ukraine and, certainly, that creates a lot of difficulties for the united states ask nato strategically. and i think the biden administration and republican leaders in congress are correct when they're cautious on those particular issues. but the notion that the united states and its allies are neutral in this fight is a false notion, and every single time we say that we won't put boots on the ground in a place like ukraine, we're giving putin license to operate there. we need to be a little more

ambiguous about what we will and won't do inside ukraine while bolstering our defenses within the nato alliance. eric: christopher smith with a dire prediction of what we'll be seeing over the next weeks and months, maybe longer. chris, thank you for joining us. >> pleasure to be with you with. arthel: new details on that breaking news we brought you moments ago. sources telling fox news that russia has asked china for military assistance as putin ramps up his invasion of ukraine. jackie heinrich is live at the white house where president biden just returned from camp david. hey, any response from the administration yet? >> reporter: well, officially the national security council is not commenting on this. there is concern that if they give too much detail away, that it could potentially impact the channels through which u.s. officials have been able to gather intelligence and determine what they have confirmedded to me and the washington post and others just now which is that russia at some

point after the invasion reached out to the chinese asking for military assistance and other support. we don't have too many more details beyond that. that was certainly a step onwhat national security adviser jake sullivan say on the sunday shows this morning which was the u.s. had some belief that the chinese knew something ahead of the invasion, something that putin was planning, but maybe didn't have the full extent of the picture given how frequently vladimir putin lies. but this information, this new breaking news is a step onthat not just the discussion about what happened before the invasion, but this is current, sometime after the invasion. so now the u.s. is closely watching to see how china a deals with russia after the invasion, especially with respect to sanctions. take a listen here. >> we also are watching closely to see the extent to which china does provide any form of

support, material support or economic support to russia. it is a concern of ours, and we have communicated to beijing that we will not stand by and allow any country to compensate russia for its losses. >> reporter: the administration's also paying close attention to the chinese appearing to endorse russian disinformation campaigns. white house officials say while beijing has tried to appear neutral on the world stage, domestic media coverage there is siding with russia and beijing seemingly has endorsed the claims that the u.s. is developing chemical weapons in the ukraine, also an indicator that russia may be plan fromming a chemical weapons attack. debunking misif information has been really a key part of the white house strategy. not only did officials declassify intelligence ahead of the invasion as a way to counter russian false flag operations, but last week the white house also gathered a group of 30 social media influencers from tiktok for the equivalent of a

background briefing. press secretary jen psaki and officials from the national security council joined that call telling the influencers they can use their platforms to debunk misinformation and saying, quote, we recognize this is a critically important avenue in the way the american public is finding out about the latest. we wanted to make sure you had the latest information from us, from an authoritative source. so the president has arrived back at the white house. he went in without speaking to reporters, and we don't expect to see him again for the rest of the day, arthel. arthel: jacqui heinrich, thank you so much, live from the white house. and we will be right back. ( ♪♪ ) ( ♪♪ ) life... doesn't stop for diabetes. be ready for every moment, with glucerna. it's the number one doctor recommended brand that

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christina coleman in los angeles. >> family and friends of the americans worry it'll be harder to get the loved ones back home amid escalating tension between russia and the u.s. wnba all-star brittney griner was detained by the russians in february for allegedly having cannabis oil in her luggage at an airport. moscow and former u.s. marine trevor reed and paul dealing had been jailed in russia for what their families in u.s. lawmakers called politically motivated charges. as russia enters into the third week of work he told reporters he's not giving up on getting his son back home. he said the russians allowed trevor to call them for the first time in more than 230 days last week. >> we love our son and we will fight until our dying day to bring him home.

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larry: that is amazing and wonderful that trevor and paul. the state department has a special unit for hostage affairs as the agency said anything else about the situation? >> the spokesperson says they are working diligently on brittney griner's case. he also said they are constantly advocating for the release of reed and whalen. they're being held unjustified and wrong charges, this is something that they are actively working on. concern over these americans is growing. brittney griner has been held on drug charges and the russians have not indicated how long their investigation could last. spokesperson said she was detained up every 17th. we will have to see how this plays out. >> thank you so much. i have to say your interview the

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