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This is the largest conventional war in europe since 1939. russian president vladimir putin ordering a large scale military invasion across pretty much all of ukraine. explosions have been seen, heard and reported in at least 16 locations throughout ukraine, including the capital of kyiv. new images are coming in by the minute of the damage caused by the attacks and also, massive traffic jams we see in the capital as people try to flee. and clarissa ward showing us hundreds of people now packing...

Remember, march is around the corner and the fed is planning to raise interest rates. if consumers stop spending what is it going to do? >> yeah. >> stephanie ruhle, thank you very much for joining us this morning. willie. there are several elements to this attack. before the explosions in ukraine, several of the countrys government and banking websites were hit with a cyberattack on wednesday. many of those sites reportedly still are down this morning. ukrainian cybersecurity officials say it...

Ukrainian soldiers that if theres a land war are going to fight. if it goes the way it sounds like it, this will be the largest conventional war in europeco since 1939. >> what is the purpose of having the president speak out like this before what the u.s. says is now an expected operation? >> i think its to prepare the world and the american people for what could be a really horrific war. and i really want to underscore that. the ukrainians are goingan to suffer. ethnic russians that live in uk...

Used historically, for example, in 1939 when the soviet union occupied eastern poland. so weve got to look at not only the military but the consequences of what happens when they get there -- if they get there. >> jill, youre in moskow for us. does putin, do the russian people for that matter fully understand the implications of launching this kind of invasion of ukraine, just how crippling the western response could be? >> i dont think thats part of the discussion here, wolf. i mean obviously t...

American people of that time, were called on, to be engaged in the work of the world. winston churchill came to the united states in 1943, in the middle of the second world war. he gave a speech at harvard in which he, the speaking pace of the isolation in this impulse in the united states. which kept america out of the second world war from september 1939 all the way until the middle of december 1941. and he said, you cannot become the greatest nation in the world, and say, we are not going to ...

Moscow and the rappelling of the russian it invaded and 1939. those memories -- that is part of the history that putin knows and part of the psychology of this man on what he does next is all based on this sense of honor being embarrassed by the end of the soviet union. wanting to reclaim the golden glory of the soviet union. thats the psychological profile of this authoritarian leader. >> john: i just want to correct something i said earlier. 27 nation european union that said that it would imp...

General, thank you very much for joining us. you told me you believe this is like the german blitzkrieg of 1939. theyre coming in from three different directions. from east, from the north and from the south. why do you believe it is like a blitzkrieg? where do you think theyre pushing the hardest? >> because theyre not going to stop. theyre going to go day and night and i think the target is right here at kyiv. >> all right, so lets talk about kyiv. by all accounts, again, they are pushing in f...

What kim is doing here is that, yes, they are testing missiles, but actually theyre turning back on that really super—duper ultra—aggressive message to the world. su min hwang, editor of the bbc�*s korean service. here in the centre of helsinki is the idiosyncratic monument to the winter war of 1939—a0, when the russians invaded finland full of confidence and got a bloody nose. sound familiar? the fighting ground on until peace talks came up with a solution. russia kept some finnish terr...

But there is a -- im not going to say that it is inevitable that putin is going to succeed here militarily. i think it is inevitable that he has made a horrendous decision for himself, for the world, and for humanity, and the united states has to stand up for democracy, and for the ukrainian people. >> is this, though, perhaps a 1939 moment in that are we confident that putin stops at ukraine? if he doesnt believe ukraine is a country, that somehow is part of the greater russian empire, he feels...

Going on. >> appreciate that. admiral, if russia is successful in ending or decapitating the government of ukraine, then what happens to the people who live there? what is the day-to-day reality of that? this is sadly a region that has seen land go back and forth because of the great land wars of western europe before. but for viewers and for americans its not something we have witnessed in the recent era. what does that actually entail? >> unfortunately, they are on a rocket ride back to 1939. ...