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When he says peacekeepers in the east because of nazis, for which he provides no evidence, thats a cover. hes in fact, carrying out an invasion of this country and attacking targets across the country. it shows his intention is to own the country, right? and thats the way we should look at this military operation now. >> jim sciutto over here in lviv. stay safe, you and your team. please take care. lets now go across the entire country to kharkiv and sam kiley. you have been hearing explosions. ...

To us earlier, and the russians what they could do in the rest of ukraine, beyond the eastern side, is attacked those things that would cause the ukrainians difficulty in defending themselves. airfields, military installations and certain government installations. would more likely be the target then residential or commercial enterprises. yeah, that is right, weve yet to see any reports of any civilian infrastructure or anything like that have being hit so far. but again, we are continuing to he...

And the black sea in the south. ukraines interior ministry says missile strikes have hit the capital kyiv, airfields and military headquarters in kharkiv have been shelled, and russian troops have landed in the port city of odessa. according to russia, they got no resistance from ukrainian border guards and have suppressed ukraines air defenses. were unable to independently confirm that. meanwhile, ukraine says five russian aircraft and a helicopter have been shot down. russia denies that. diffi...

President zelenskyy. weve known from the beginning that kyiv was the target of this and the question is, how strong can the ukraine i caians resist? can they fight these forces? the other part is, do they have the commanding control in place to be able to direct ukrainian forces against the russian forces? for example, the russians are already on airfields around kyiv, are they being counterattacked? how successful was the counterattack? are barricades up in kyiv? we havent seen them. what will ...

Shipment of those turkish tb 2 drones. guys, back to you in new york. >> brian: hey, mike, im wondering whats going on with megs supposed to be donated put into poland. i heard the ukrainian pilots were heading to poland to pick them up and then the whole deal fell apart. do you know anything about this? >> i dont know much about the deal. one thing i know is the ukrainian pilots have to go to the other countries to operate these fighter jets. there is a substantial damage to the airfields here ...

Similar levels of pressure are put on kyiv, the capital, with the capture of fighting over airfields there, threats to the capital, threats to the second largest city, combining to lead, volodymyr zelenskyy, this is how he put it today. >> translator: we are issuing arms of defensive weapons to all those capable of defending our sovereignty. each citizen of ukraine will decide the future of our people. anyone with military experience who is able to join the defense of ukraine must report to stat...

Cruise missiles, short range ballistic missiles that took out from what the russians claim our airfields, military targets, ukraines air defense system. you would expect that the air defenses have been neutralized, youll see helicopter gun ships. weve seen these civilians, satellite images showing thousands of russian helicopters in belarus and crimea. you expect those will be launching later today. >> im curious. why leave kyiv and go to lviv? is there a sense you get to one of these outlying a...

Its now midnight here in los angeles, 10:00 in the morning in kyiv. dark morning for people there and around the world. for months we were told that what was yet to come as nearly 200,000 russian forces massed along ukraines southern border. u.s. intelligence provided a virtual play-by-play of how russia would advance. today, that intelligence proved to be spot on. it began last week with preliminary operations in separatist regions of ukraine. yesterday came the predicted cyber attack. then exp...

Air power. we also have seen that the russians have been able to launch an air result against airfields, and are using their aircrafts extensively. >> youre talking about these as three hundreds, and the missile defense systems that they have that can be defensive. there seems to be a universal support across nato countries in being able to provide ukraine with the type of defenses it needs. what is that hesitation there? a lot of the weaponry they views, like the airplanes, our russian built am...

Bays where russian air assault forces were inserted. they seem to have taken control of that base. now they can begin lending cargo planes, including cargo planes full of russian troops just 45 minutes from the capital. from what we have seen, there were 100 ballistic missiles launched into ukraine overnight, but this is just the beginning of the assault. russian aircrafts involved in the assault overnight. targets included air defense, barracks, and ten the airfields were taken in just those 12...