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>> you know, just on the streets, for example, what -- what's really jarring right now is that you have these -- uh -- you know, silence piercing series of explosions and gunfire. but other than that, it is extremely quiet. i mean, the sun is coming up here as -- as well as lviv. you can hear the birds chirping but it is incredibly quiet in the streets. no one is about. no cars. but of course, michael, many, many people not just in kyiv but across the country, are going to want to be fleeing and they already are. the ukrainian train service, put on special trains on friday to get people out of...

As the -- as their efforts go on. and so, we know that tomorrow, in terms of monitoring what is happening, the president will convene a rare saturday-morning call with his national security officials and the vice president really to update him on what happens overnight here. michael. >> and just real quick. president biden manpla planning take sanctions a step further. tell us how that decision was made, what might they be? >> president biden will impose sanctions on russian president putin, himself. marking this really the highest-profile person that the president will sanction over russia's ...

Good fight. president zelenskyy saying that hundreds of -- of russian troops have been killed. of course, as you noted, there have also been losses on the ukrainian side, as well. this is, as some of my colleagues have -- have said -- it is a david-and-goliath situation. but having spent a couple -- the past-few weeks here, um, there is a lot of confidence in this ukrainian military that has grown so much over the past eight yearers, since crimea was illegally annexed back in 2014. but that, then again, michael, we -- increasingly worrying signs that the fight is quick. >> coming to a head, yo...

Imposed or said that it would impose similar sanctions on president putin and russian foreign minister, sergey lavrov. and now, white house press secretary jen psaki, she told reporters today that it came about in the last 24 hours, really in concert with u.s. allies trying to make sure that they are un -- unanimous and really united on -- in terms of their punishment for president putin as the white house looks to ratchet up things. really, trying to, um, make russia pay a price even if it happens in the long-term here. michael. >> all right. jas jasmine wright at the white house. we going to...

To the south and to the east. and then, in addition to toez those explosions i mentioned came from the west, we have also known for the past few days that the russians have been pushing in from the north. that northern front has been relatively quiet. but all manner of fighting in the overnight hours, michael, we heard explosion frs different directions. we heard small-arms fire. larger-arms fire at some of though explosions lighting up the night sky. air-raid veps going off here in the capital kyiv but there has b been a lull for about the past hour. and all told -- and it's still early -- bu...