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Where there is the regular army, national guardsmen, they were posted very close to the northern border, again we are only 25 miles away. for the last four the several last weeks, it does not look like a city that is preparing for war. and i am sure aaron has noticed the same thing in kyiv. you don't see people piling into cars, you don't see military armament, sandbags anywhere, it doesn't have the last same -- you don't have a sense of military resin us at all here, lawrence. >> and matt, one of the non visible aspects of the resistance, include regular citizens who are armed and personally ...

The western portion of the country. we were speaking to parents who are sending their children to school with stickers, identifying their blood type. just in case. so you are seeing people making these desperate preparations. i think at the same time, it is such a shock. the idea that russia would attack the ukrainian capital. that i think many people here at the same time are in disbelief. >> joining our coverage now is matt bradley, nbc news foreign correspondent, he is kharkiv, close to the border with russia, in eastern ukraine. matt, what are you hearing, what is the situation there now? ...

Beyond eastern ukraine. >> aaron stay safe there, we're going to continue our discussion here. joining our discussion now, chief white house correspondent for the new york times. he is a former moscow bureau chief for the washington post. a lot of news being made, we will find out overtime what is being said at the united nations is true. but the russian ambassador did say occupation of ukraine is not in our plans. >> well of course but you remember in the last few, weeks they also said american warnings that russia was about to attack ukraine where hysteria and disinformation. and false infor...

Aaron mclaughlin. >> reporter: in kherson, ukraine, defiance. residents woke up under russian occupation and took to the streets. go home, there's no vodka here, this man says. they first gathered by the hundreds. and as word spread, thousands. lashing out against the russian occupiers. then gunshots. russian troops firing into the air. this woman draped in her country's flag. we are not afraid, we are together, she says. similar scenes in the nearby town of mel topol, also now occupied by russian forces. the crowd of angry people bearing down on armed russian troops. earlier this week in kher...

Correspondent aaron mclaughlin in kyiv with an update on what is happening there. >> aaron, what are you hearing? >> hi, lawrence. we have heard from an adviser to the minister of internal affairs on a whatsapp shot group with journalists, saying that there have been missile strikes on the ukraine capital of kyiv where i am now -- at the control centers in kyiv. airfields and military headquarters -- we began hearing a number of booms here in the capital at around 4 am in the morning. i heard one about 15 minutes ago, pretty loud booms. at the same time, we are not hearing the cities sirens sy...