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Joining us all around the world. live from ukraine, michael holmes and our breaking news this hour, russias invasion of ukraine is underway. with attacks reported from the north, east, and the south. ukraines interior ministry says missile strikes have hit the capital kyiv, air fields, and russian troops have landed in the ukrainian port city of odessa. now, according to russia, they got no tree zibtness from ukrainian border guards. and according to russia, have suppressed ukraines air defenses...

War crime. and the world should come down on putin, not just with financial sanctions, but with legal actions. all of his assets seized, his family deported from the west, and he is an international criminal. now, were going to have to do more than financial sanctions. i think thats clear. that is punitive as you said. what is happening right now is the first of the first 24 hours of air strikes to knock out ukraines air defenses and assure that russians have air supremacy. they have penetrated ...

Capital watching as the lines of people were gathering to collect guns. they were handing out ak-47s from the federal government yesterday. while speaking to a local number of government, he was there to get to ak-47s, one for him, one for his wife. they were hunkering down in the suburbs. he told me that he was worried, that he is concerned, that he stressed, that he does not issued a gun, that he was going to go home and google it, figure out how it works. but he was prepared to protect his co...

Missiles. the primary missiles used last night that were based up in the belarus area where there were those 30,000 russian troops. medium range ballistic missiles also employed. cruise and surface to air missiles. they havent yet moved into western ukraine. russian aircraft were involved in the assault last night. targets are air defense systems, barracks, ammo field and air fields. no amphibious assaults so far. no russian troops landing in odessa according to the ukraine defense minister. pub...

Strike -- a missile strike or artillery strike further to my south, not very far, a bit closer in to the center of town. the issue really now is whether or not the russians are going to extend their operations beyond what they say theyre going to limit them to, which is to military targets, attacking what would be predictable air fields, communications centers, concentrations of artillery and so on, or whether they are going to extend their battle front and take on the ukrainian military who do ...

An air missile campaign would be followed by, would soften the battlefield for a ground invasion with the intention of crippling this country, a good half to 2/3 of the country based on, again, the u.s. assessment that that is what is being looked for right now. right? the ground forces coming across. just one note about those sirens weve been hearing in kyiv. the u.s. assessment has been that the targets of the russian aerial campaign, a shock and awe campaign its been described to me by u.s. m...

>> hi ali, you can hear the sirens sounds. we have yet to hear further explosions. the sirens to indicate that this capital is under attack. they have been persuaded by hours of explosions, but it has been a while since we have heard the booms. the kind of booms that woke up so many citizens here in the capital. in the small hours of the morning. according to the adviser to the interior minister. crews, ballistic missiles, they have been launched on the capitol, striking military installations a...

And people of russia will be hurt. so its very important to keep this dialogue going at the united nations, expose the lies of russia, and ultimately bring international law against them as well as other means of resistance. >> general, i want to ask you, that adviser to the interior ministry of ukraine, his name is anton gerashenko, who said that the invasion has begun. also saying here that control centers such as air fields and military headquarters are being hit by the shelling. do you expec...

Russian forces have been targeting primarily military installations and air fields in the kyiv area. its also worth noting we have not heard the capital siren system. not a single siren has sounded so far. that was a situation very much yesterday when the invasion began, we heard any number of booms and then finally the siren system kicked in. i was speaking to an official adviser to the mayor of kyiv. and he said that the siren system in the city is working but it is based on sort of an intelli...

White house divides the alliance and signals weakness to putin by refusing to let warsaw send fighter jets to ukraine. the white house blinked. do you see it that way? because the word from the pentagon is that they consider this to be escalating. >> this is again something i really dont understand. russia is on the war of extermination. they are trying to get rid of ukrainian people and ukraine as a country. they are standing and fighting with everything theyve got and we have capabilities that...