Given Kharkiv News Today

Said, don, the people of ukraine and russia are deeply connected, spiritually, historically, familially. theres millions of ukrainians and russians living in each others countries. these people are not enemies per se at all. so i think people are shocked frankly to see that this is actually happening now. and they continue to brace themselves to see what comes next. is it going to be more of these strikes targeting presumably primarily military installations or could it ratchet up even further? ...

Authorities throughout the day." this was published on his facebook page about ten minutes there. but you see a pretty sternly worded message there for the 1.4 million residents of kharkiv. this is the second largest city in ukraine. the mayor coming out and telling people dont leave your homes, dont go to work, dont send your children to school. its been a very busy few hours since this all started, don, and there is no sign at this stage that it is letting up. and while its one thing to be hea...

In donbas, but it is obviously not just limited to donbas because we are hundreds of miles here in the capital, kyiv, away from that eastern part of the country. and we are seeing multiple attacks. at least 13 salvos weve been counting since weve been on air at cnn. and each of those salvos with multiple explosions. at various locations around the city. and as i say, it it could be ju just the start. >> and we saw just the start of it just moments ago as you were reporting live here about an hou...

At 5:00 in the morning just after putin gave his speech we heard a barrage, a series of barrages. then it was quiet for a while. then it was sporadic. and we heard indirect fire coming from the north, which is that way. that is the direction of the russian border. and then just as we were coming onto air with you we heard another barrage. what we dont know is what the target is. weve been led to believe by an adviser to the interior ministry that these are military targets. but the sun is only j...

Because we are just over 20 miles from the border with russia and we have seen through images on maxar satellite images but also from the reporting of our own fred pleitgen, whos just on the other side, that there is a massive build-up of russian weaponry and russian troops just over in that belgorod area. also our fred pleitgen was reporting earlier that he was hearing a lot of outgoing artillery. weve certainly been hearing quite a bit of that. landing around the city of kharkiv. a city of 1.4...

Every single angle of this breaking news for you. there you just saw matthew chance. he is in kyiv. clarissa ward is in kharkiv. kaitlan collins joins us from the white house. our jill dougherty is in moscow. frederik pleitgen is in the belgorod region of russia. and jim sciutto joins us from lviv in ukraine. hello to all of you. jim, im going to start with you. i understand you have some new reporting about what the u.s. is saying. what do you know? >> thats right, don. according to the early u...

Been struck by, don, is just -- we have crews literally fanned out across this entire country. and almost everyone is hearing something in the place they are. teams in zaporozhe, odessa, kyiv, of course here in kharkiv. and everybody is hearing something. when president putin talks about an operation to protect the people of donbas and hes trying allegedly to talk about quite a narrow area of territory, what were seeing is much wider and broader and deeper in scope than that. were not near donba...

The invasion of ukraine has begun. that is according to the ukrainian interior minister and also sources for the united states saying a full-scale invasion by russia of ukraine has begun. also have some breaking news. i want to get to cnns nick paton-walsh in odessa. nick, the information im getting is that troops have landed in odessa crossing the border in kharkiv. talk to us about that. >> yeah. obviously kharkiv is far out east. but here in the southern central port city of odessa youre righ...

Y ukrainian capital kyiv and odessa and as i reported a few minutes ago, that it is the early u.s. assessment that those explosions were part of a broader invasion as well. by the way, kharkiv as well in the northeast of the country is outside of those supposedly independent republics as declared by russian-backed separatists and recognized just in the last couple of days by the russian president. so again, you know, lets remember what the russian president, perhaps listen to what he says but be...

Full force now. at least the start of it it. >> it certainly does. you heard president putin as you mentioned say this is all about donbas. he also said his stated goal was to demilitarize and denazify ukraine. so clearly he has much greater ambitions. were also not on the front lines with donbas here in kharkiv. weve just heard another boom in the distance. there was a steady stream for a couple of minutes after president putin made his announcement, and since then weve heard sporadic what soun...