Page 9 - Air Fields News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Joining us all around the world. live from ukraine, michael holmes and our breaking news this hour, russia's invasion of ukraine is underway. with attacks reported from the north, east, and the south. ukraine's interior ministry says missile strikes have hit the capital kyiv, air fields, and russian troops have landed in the ukrainian port city of odessa. now, according to russia, they got no tree zibtness from ukrainian border guards. and according to russia, have suppressed ukraine's air defenses. ukraine's armed forces says five russian aircraft and a helicopter have been shot down. russia ...

War crime. and the world should come down on putin, not just with financial sanctions, but with legal actions. all of his assets seized, his family deported from the west, and he is an international criminal. now, we're going to have to do more than financial sanctions. i think that's clear. that is punitive as you said. what is happening right now is the first of the first 24 hours of air strikes to knock out ukraine's air defenses and assure that russians have air supremacy. they have penetrated under the cover of darkness, seized some air fields, i see the pictures of the attack helicopters...

Capital watching as the lines of people were gathering to collect guns. they were handing out ak-47s from the federal government yesterday. while speaking to a local number of government, he was there to get to ak-47s, one for him, one for his wife. they were hunkering down in the suburbs. he told me that he was worried, that he is concerned, that he stressed, that he does not issued a gun, that he was going to go home and google it, figure out how it works. but he was prepared to protect his country, and that's something that i heard over and over here in ukraine with people ice i was speakin...

Missiles. the primary missiles used last night that were based up in the belarus area where there were those 30,000 russian troops. medium range ballistic missiles also employed. cruise and surface to air missiles. they haven't yet moved into western ukraine. russian aircraft were involved in the assault last night. targets are air defense systems, barracks, ammo field and air fields. no amphibious assaults so far. no russian troops landing in odessa according to the ukraine defense minister. public means of communication is still active. the senior defense official told us it could change. th...

Strike -- a missile strike or artillery strike further to my south, not very far, a bit closer in to the center of town. the issue really now is whether or not the russians are going to extend their operations beyond what they say they're going to limit them to, which is to military targets, attacking what would be predictable air fields, communications centers, concentrations of artillery and so on, or whether they are going to extend their battle front and take on the ukrainian military who do have the capability for defense, who are claim something battlefield successes, but are also acknow...