Fox News’ Steve Harrigan On What Happens If Russia Moves Into Kyiv: “It Could Get Very Ugly Here”
deadline.comFox News correspondent Steve Harrigan, reporting from Kyiv as the Russian attacks on Ukraine unfolded early on Thursday, warned of a much more dire type of conflict “that could get very ugly here.”“Missiles are hitting now and they’re hitting military buildings,” Harrigan said in a phone interview with Deadline. “That’s powerful.
A lot of people are scared, and they’re driving out. There’s a lot of traffic. But when [the Russians] come in, that’s when it could get really bad….They’re probably going to try and capture the President and to do that they’ve got to get in here.
I’ve seen urban combat before, in Grozny in Chechnya. When armored vehicles come into cities, they often don’t do well at all.
They get attacked from apartment buildings and windows and balconies.”Harrigan, a veteran of past Russian and Middle East conflicts who has been with Fox News since 2001, reported from a hotel rooftop early Thursday, local time, as the first explosions were heard around the city.“We had been warned like six or seven times, ‘The attack is going to come now,’ so you’re pretty much ready for it.
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