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Crisis unfolds. gunshots heard as a massive crowd tries to board a train off kyiv. tonight, ukraine barring men 18 to 60 from leaving the country. warning to stay indoors and make molotov cocktails to defend themselves. president biden is now planning to sanction vladimir putin directly. and matt gutman tonight overseas on the humanitarian disaster unfolding right now. the u.n. saying hundreds of thousands already leaving, trying to get to safety. families and children, and what our team has already witnessed. the major news here at home tonight, the history made. the president fulfilling a ...

Finger on it. part of my battle of the communist gave, it is 3 million people, a lot of people trapped their, living in basements, starting hungry, starting to lose electoral energy if they have an enormous energy. if they fight street to street, in urban warfare, at the advantages to the defender. they could devour thousands of russian soldiers. or, they could stand back, and pound the city. i don't think putin would back off kyiv, and it would be a bloody mess in the coming weeks. >> think about what it is like for ukrainians in that city, in those basements, right now, as they are waking up...

General, what's your biggest fear right now? >> i think jeremy put his finger on it. part of my battle of the communist gave, it is 3 million people, a lot of people trapped their, living in basements, starting hungry, starting to lose electoral energy if they have an enormous energy. if they fight, street to treat, in urban warfare, lead advantages to the defender. they could devour thousands of russian soldiers, or they could stand back and pound the city. i don't think putin would back off kyiv. it would be a bloody mess in the coming weeks. >> think about what is like for ukrainians in tha...

Could do to the convey. they don't display good discipline by having all those vehicles bunched up like that. that makes for a great target. i'm concerned about putting more resources and cutting off kyiv, which is the primary target, the primary center of gravity to use the military term for the russians. their original plan, ovf course was to capture kyiv and specifically kyiv government buildings, media outlets, telecommunications, et cetera and then have the government capitulate and install a puppet. things haven't gone according to plan. one other comment, don, real quickly on the length...

The russians are pushing forward where they can, but every time they try a new route, for example round kyiv to try and block off kyiv or around kharkiv to block off kharkiv, they are actually being stopped, and there are lots of small counterattacks at the moment going on outside of kyiv and outside of kharkiv that are actually taking the russians in their rear, so to speak. this is causing the russians a lot of hardship and there is quite a lot of destruction and they are losing a lot of vehicles and losing a lot of people, especially in the north. in the north—west, you said 25 kilometres...