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Now, this is right out of russias playbook of operations. if they say, oh, we seem to -- oh, dear, we think that the militarys hiding the military equipment in the civilian neighborhood, that tells you the russians are going to go and attack the sylcivilian neighborhoods, despite the fact they were saying the civilians should be safe not 24 hours ago. the other thing putin is doing, hes called on the ukrainian military, the ukrainian people to turn on their own government, completely misreading ...

On russian state media, these were the scenes in donetsk where news filtered back moscow had recognized the territory as an independent state. russian flags and fireworks set to a blaring national anthem. for the u.s. and its allies, this is yet another unilateral russian violation of ukrainian sovereignty to be punished. >> reporter: wolf, so far tonight the ukrainian leader has spoken to president back-iden a confirmed what the possible response could be. but events on the ground as weve been ...

Concern here becomes wolf, does this constitute an invasion? of course, russia will try to frame this within the narrative that they have set out now saying that these are independent republics requesting our help but that, of course, is not going to be the understanding of this by the international community and certainly not by the government here in kyiv, but it remains to be seen how exactly they will respond because obviously theres a very real concern that if they respond with force of any...

Committee. hes been well-briefed by u.s. officials. you just heard that report, senator, from kyiv. do you have any intelligence on the state of play on the ground? how awful is it? >> well, wolf, just about every step here has been predicted. we understand the strength of the russian military, the capacity of the ukraine military to defend itself. we knew that mr. putin had a desire to take over kyiv and to overthrow the government. so, thats not a surprise that we see this campaign taking plac...

The united states to have the level of information that we have, did not expect us to put out this amount of information that we have put out. and what were seeing now, our assessment is that he is improvising, adapting. and were having to respond and adapt his own actions as we are responding to him. >> the u.s. deputy secretary of state wendy sherman told me this evening putin is poised to launch a, quote, war of carnage, that could leave thousands on both sides dead. this is clearly a very, v...

Through a determined ukrainian resistance, ukrainian military, does have, as fareed says, that has sophisticated weapons but even more important its got the will to fight, defend its own country, its own land. but the russian army will be able to put vsh through. its a big country. its the size of texas. the ukrainian people will resist. the ukrainian people will make it hell for russian occupiers. the ukrainian government will presumably leave kyiv. it will set up somewhere else, maybe in the w...

Terrible situation. >> reporter: there is no doubt about who is responsible for this conflict. but few can understand why. so i just asked them what do they think of president putin, do they think hes crazy, they said hes not crazy, hes sick. hes sick. we just want to live peacefully. >> i just hope that some people in russia makes -- just with putin and -- >> reporter: a simple plea for mercy that has so far fallen on deaf ears. so, wolf, there is now a curfew in place here from 10:00 p.m. to 6...

The morning will bring. >> the images, the live pictures showing from the skies, the flashes going on right now in kyiv, this is kyiv, a city of nearly 3 million people and just targeted. i know people brace for a lot more. stay safe over there gen. jim is there for us and you have new information on what you hear about the attack by the russians on kyiv? >> reporter: wolf, to be clear, an aerial attack on kyiv has been part of the russian plan from the beginning, at least the u.s. intelligence ...

Headquarters in brussels many times. nato was established in 1949, as you well know. and now for the first time ever, the 30-member nato alliance has activated what it calls its nato response force. nato supreme ally commander says the force is flexible and combat credible. so, what do you say? whats the significance of this historic the move, the first time ever? >> look, well, wolf, this is a good move. it is important that nato show to russia that we will defend nato allies. if theyre attacke...

"it was so beautiful, and now its destroyed," she says. "what are they trying to achieve? to bring us to our knees?" but against all odds, ten days into this war, ukraine is still standing. a woman waits to be evacuated, trembling but resilient. [ speaking foreign language ] "we will overcome everything," she says. for the people here, the journey is just beginning. theyre loaded onto buses to the train station. from there, they dont know where they will go. now wolf, up until yesterday, most of...