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Wanted to occupy ukraine. he claimed russia's assault, was to demilitarise and denazify the country, so that ukrainians could freely determine their own future. with more, here's our diplomatic correspondent, caroline hawley. chanting they are chanting "no to war" — a show of disgust last night in central moscow in a country where many are still in shock at the invasion of ukraine. it takes bravery to protest in president putin's russia. across the country, close to 2,000 people are now reported to have been taken into custody for taking a stand against what the kremlin has done. translation...

Now on. and russia lost 1000 people over the first day of war. this is unprecedented. this is the result of the work of our army and of all the people of the armed forces who are fighting russians on the streets of their cities. you know, two days ago i was an mp, a politician and a woman in my country and now i have to learn how to shoot a kalashnikov, i was given a kalashnikov and i'm spending half of my day training to protect myself and people i love because everybody has to stand up with the armed forces to be able to protect themselves. this is what we will do. we know for sure what puti...

Are these forces coming into plain sight, the sound of automatic weapons going off, that third you feel when an explosion goes off and the echo that causes when it reverberates off different buildings. there is nothing that can mitigate for the shock that brings, that's why we saw what we did yesterday with the blocked highways coming out of the city. this is a city under country under attack and it is at war. we have to say, though, this is the majority of the country that does not want to be taken over. vladimir putin claims this isn't about occupation, but we have to this is a population th...

Any negotiations because he will break them and we know with one hand he will try to talk to you and with the other hand he will throw the rockets on your cities at 3am in the morning. forthe rockets on your cities at 3am in the morning. for the last two days since the war began there were at least eight air strikes on kyiv, so eight times the sirens went on and we went to the bomb shelter and had to hide. there was at least two attempts to take on the city, both from the north side, and both ended up with russian soldiers in plastic bags. this is what we will have to do to protect ourselves. ...

Said the way out of this war, and it is now a war, would be for vladimir putin to return to the negotiating table. but i've got to tell you, you will need no guesses on how that has gone down when you speak to people in the bomb shelter, when you think about this is an opening gambit for some kind of negotiation, to launch a full assault after exerting eight years of pressure on a country, sustained eight years of fighting in the east that has seen iii,000 ukrainians lose their lives. we have not got an up—to—date figure on the number of ukrainian lives which have been lost today, but ukra...