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Is one of the largest squares you will find in all of europe. and it has been a staging ground for so many cultural events for the people of ukraine. there have been concerts there. and they've had military parades there. they have russian and ukrainian events there just some dozen years ago here at freedom square. that was hit by a cruise missile earlier today. and you can see the explosion. it is just thunderous with its impact there. and you think about this. some of the major national moments in ukrainian history have been targeted by putin. one of them is freedom square. and the other is ...

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They are watching to make sure that those planes do not get close to that air space. what they were looking for was signs that russia is engaging in that conflict and what they saw is they are taking off, these russian made aircraft from belarus and entering ukrainian air space. more an indication that russia has begun to use belarus as a staging ground for military operations. what they did say which was interesting is they could not tell who actually was operating that aircraft. whether it was russians or belarussians because they use the same kind of airplane. the russians had begun do real...

Over eastern europe and monitoring russia's military moves in ukraine. the plane saw fighter jets flying in from belarus. now we can show you a reaction from a nato crew member as he monitored those jets on his radar. natasha bertrand has the story. >> reporter: cnn was granted rare access to a nato surveillance flight on thursday that flew for roughly 13 hours over the ukrainian-polish border, monitoring ukrainian airspace and looking for russian activity there. while onboard, the nato airmen told us they could see russian-made aircraft taking off from belarus and entering ukrainian airspace,...

Both countries use the same kind of aircraft. but what they told us is that this is a clear indication that belarus is allowing russia to use its country as a staging ground. take a listen to what one nato airman told me onboard yesterday. >> we do see activity coming from -- from belarus going into the ukraine. but we cannot distinguish whether it is russian aircraft or the -- or belarusian aircraft. but sometimes, there are some -- some -- certain periods on the day which are not on a regular basis, where we do have a lot of activity getting in. like, a -- a -- a larger package with 10 to pe...