either hide your wealth or escape russia. so these are the most traumatic sanctions, punishments we ve seen from the u.s. and european union. and it is remarkably how quickly this came about because, pamela, as you said president biden was asked about this only on thursday and he said the european leaders are not there yet. they certainly are there now because of the fighting, the shelling, the attacks we are seeing in kyiv. that is why these developments are happening. of course, this is all coming as the u.s. is pledging even more military assistance. the president last night signing an order to send $350 million more of ammunitions. germany doing that as well, reversing a long-standing process or policy to not send ammunition to conflict zones. pamela, changing dramatically. but i can tell you the white house, the national security council keeping a close eye on kyiv tonight, obviously fearful it could fall. jeff zeleny, live from the
from them. now, what does that mean politically? hard to say. these are young people. about 9%, 10% of the population, a lot of them don t vote. but, you know, they re going to be around longer than the generation of president putin. and so will that change russia? i don t know. but i agree with kimberley. i wouldn t look for any, you know, coup immediately, but i do think society is changing. jill dohearty, kimberley, thank you for offering your perspective to this very important conversation. and up next how to punish putin and whether the serious sanctions will actually stick. when you have a when you see a child like beaten in your neighbor s yard, you don t just put sanctions on the person who s doing the beating, right? you just go and kick his ass. (sighs wearily) hehere i ll take that! (excited yell) woo-hohoo!
and yet if you go to social media, and maybe we can talk about that later. you go to social media and there is a lot more criticism and push back especially from young people. and russia s assault has been slower moving because of ukrainian resistance, jill. but that is not appearing on tvs there in russia, right? correct. yeah, no, it s completely like through the looking glass image. cnn, major media in the west have live shots and pictures from kyiv and other ukrainian cities with those attacks, and yet on the russian media it s really kind of i would call it old-fashioned kind of stodgy almost soviet coverage, which is military spokesperson delivering his report about what s happening. and also, again, it s referring to these breakaway regions. so the message i think is to consac
saw lighting up the sky most likely to be fuel tanks, storage tanks possibly because of the close by air base that had been ignited. clearly there s some sort of confrontation under way right now. it s impossible for us to go and look because there is a curfew in place in this city, and it s not going to be lifted until monday morning. so whole sunday there s going to be a curfew as well. and that s a eare flexion how concerned authorities are here, that we re on the cusp of something very dangerous and very big, waiting essentially, preparing many of the residents here for a big push potentially by the russians to take over kyiv. pam? it s see eerie, so ominous, matthew. and you have been following how ukrainians are defending the city, taking up arms themselves, these civilians. what has stuck out to you in talking with them and seeing what they ve been able to do against the russians? reporter: it really is it really is quite astonishing to
leaving behind a husband, a father to fight in ukraine. it is just unbelievable what is taking place right now, the humanitarian crisis. you are close to the hungary border. tell us more about what it is like where you are right now, erin. reporter: so what happened was, pamela, to get here it took another 16, 17 hours and we passed various border crossings. we also one checkpoint alone took us over 6 hours because there s military checkpoints in the towns. men are building up concrete, putting up tires presumably if they need to stop a russian invasion. so you have that and lines and lines of people all of them trying to head for the borders. and right now we went by the polish border, slovakia border, and now we re here at the hungary border which is behind me about a kilometer, and we re going to cross it after this. but i ll say this and i think it s really important. the polish border is in crisis