is charges accounting, we bring you the stories and different ones that are rapidly changing the world. we're living. what do you think the driving to form a collecting market? counting the cost on al jazeera. ah ah, it rains capital under attack is russia continues. it's assaults, the ukrainian foreign minister says kia has suffered horrific strikes overnight. ah, logan like peter w, a watching l 0 without continuing coverage at the events in easton, you framed international condemnation with the u. s. and the e. u leading sanctions on russia, but ukraine's president says, that's not enough to stop moscow. demonstrations across the world to denounce

russia's military attack in ukraine, demanding an end to the military operation. ukraine says his capital has suffered terrific rock. it strikes open nights. russian troops are moving closer to key if on the 2nd day of this full scale attack has been the lights of unrest for ukrainians as missiles struck, the city residential buildings on the outskirts we're hits and fire fighters are still putting out the flames. the cranes army says russia fired on civilian areas, but it said defense systems have repelled attacks. ah, ukrainians in the capital woke to the sound of sirens, their precedent lot amused lensky as warning of what he calls enemies, sabotage groups already in cave. and an early morning address,

the lensky said he's a target, but dismissed rumors that he has in fact fled the capital. and in the last hour we've been hearing from mister zalinski again, he's released a message saying they have been left alone to fight against russia. whatever is openly due in most directions, the enemy has been stopped. russians are relying on the assumption that our forces will be tired, but we protect our land and skies as far as possible. we also had a horrible explosion and keep this morning. house has been hurts, that reminds us of what happened back in the 1941 when we will on our own. as before, the most powerful forces in the world, they stay away and observe what's happening. foreign troops, us still and out here at tree, and only our determination can stop them. ok, just after 8 hours gmc, that's 10 am in the morning local time in kia live now to here. and i correspond andrew simmons and understand you got some new reporting for us about these reports

of skirmishes quite close to kiev. that's right out to the north of the city or we're not sure of the distance, but reports are coming in of fighting increased fighting. now whether that's anything to do with the paratroopers landing or whether it's a people who are cells that were in the city because there are rumors that they are there are operatives, undercover operatives. russian operatives are with of a heavy armory being used in the city. it's unclear, but the fighting is near the city regardless of what's happening in the north because it also mel airfield that's only 15 kilometers from here. the russians have been trying, we understand, trying to make some sort of landing of power troopers or in transport planes. and this is a small airfield used by commercial freight and plains. and it was taken by

the russians on thursday. and then there was a fiercer counter attack by the ukrainians. and as far as we know, russians have been repelled. but we're still not sure of, of the exact status of that. you heard president zalinski describing the situation that sir, there was an awful attack on this morning this morning friday and that was in the suburbs of the city. a civilian area came under attack. it was either a missile attack, we're not sure or an air strike. and there are a lot of civilian casualties. apparently we don't have numbers for that. furthermore, the, the ukrainians are striking back wherever they can. there is an unconfirmed report at the moment of a ballistic missile being fired into the molars, provo, ass trip in rust, off the russian in russian territory. other escalates things even further. and it has to be said that that does appear that despite the mites of the land invasion

with, with columns of armor coming from the north, the south and the east, and the russian navy and to the west. that there is a situation whereby people are feeling yes, we've got to fight fight for our lives. and that applies to civilians as well, who are picking up weaponry and which is available to them. they don't have to be doing a national service or voluntary reserve is that they can actually pick up weaponry . but i'm thinking about, look back now on the past 24 hours. ah, the russian invasion was lost with terrifying speed and against a wide range of targets. right across the country. along military build up around the cranes borders finally unleashed by order of the

kremlin helicopter gunship fighter jets miss isles tanks. convoys of armored vehicles are all involved in what russia calls a military operation. for the moment the targets appeared to be specific and strategic. they include ukraine's airfields and military bases. this video from really to poll in southern ukraine, appears to show the destruction of the cities airfield, with shrapnel and shelves are also reported to have landed in civilian areas including the capital key. if you needed a letter hold up until the very last moment i didn't believe it would happen. i thought it might just involved in it's in the hands, but i didn't ever think it would involve key have was crazy. will most likely war has now begun. every one is leaving everywhere is shut knowledge. it's ok. you your car. i hate the country that started this war. i speak as a mother and as a ukrainian and i call on the whole world to help us and stuck this aggressively.

ukraine's government declared martial law or children when i had a conversation with you as president joe biden, the u. s. is starting to gather international support. today we need you, each of you to be calm. if possible, stay at home please. we are working, the army is working. the tie, security in defense sector of ukraine is working in the russian military offensive follows a carefully choreographed strategy of russia's president vladimir putin. he unilaterally recognized to separate his regions in eastern ukraine as independent of give and then sent russian soldiers in, under the pretext of being peacekeepers. the battle fellow hands and don yet, skin eastern ukraine has been going on since 2014. with more than 14000 people killed in fighting between the russian back separatists and the you. any in the

army? now won't putin calls peacekeepers the only attack? and the russian leader is warning ukrainian soldiers not to resist the when you put them on your shirt or whatever we try to stop us and further create threats to our country to our people should know that russia's response will be immediate and lead you to such consequences that you have never faced in your history. we are ready for any outcome. the russian invasion began to spite last ditch appeals from members of the united nations security council to ease tension ukraine's ambassador to the un demanded. his russian counterpart stepped down as chairman, co putting cola rove to stop aggression. there is no purgatory for war criminals. they go straight to hell, ambassador o,

as news of the invasion spread in ukraine's capital, kiev main, highways out of the city quickly became good lot with traffic. there's a mood of desperation developing now, many people just jumping into their cars, getting their families together, and heading on the road, trying to get to poland. but the main auto roots are all jammed. there are so many people trying to do the same thing. others are going underground, taking shelter. others have been flocking to the supermarkets and frantically stocking up on essential items. this was the scene in cremmit tours in the east of ukraine as shoppers grab what they could to fill their cupboards. the ukrainian army and air force are putting up a fight and resisting the russian attack. this video from the defense ministry said to show a russian helicopter shot down by ukrainian forces near keith. but there will be no reinforcements from nato. and the odds look heavily stacked against ukraine's

forces. and andrew, for the people of kia, i guess, for them there must be a reality dawning this morning. your time local time, and it's what they've been hearing from mr. zalinski that no one is coming. no one is coming to help them, not militarily anyway, i mean that was a pragmatism where all the speculation was going on and that by itself it's reports was going to be an all out attack as a real complacency amongst many people. but now obviously, the worst has happened the worst possible scenario as far as the civilians are concerned and cause they feel, well, they don't just feel angry with russia. they feel angry with the outside world. in many ways you heard the president saying in his, at his latest video posting effectively, not so much a national address than you heard him saying that they were on our own. like in

1941 and the comparisons. the 2nd world war are coming up all time, and there is a feeling really that sanctions, yes, it's the most realistically, that the west can do, but they're not going to do anything in the words of the u. s. president himself, they're not going to actually solve anything. immediately. they're going to hurt russia over a period of time. now it appears of putin make very, very careful calculations on what sort of affects the worst case scenario of sanctions we're going to be. he obviously factored that in, because the onslaught we're seeing and hearing and for all the time is, is, is something he must have actually worked out. major damage limitations for. so the people are angry. they don't expect nato to stop attacking russian forces. we all know what the, that the end result could be from that and, and so therefore,

there are appeals going out to neighboring states. appeals for all sorts of help. not just so heavy a heavy armory or, or, or, or warplanes. and it does appear that the ukrainians are able, are the ukrainian forces, are able to defend the skies to some extent, but not to the, to the great extent they may count they, they need to with the sophisticate it dirt fighter bombers. a russia is now deploying at such a rapid rate from beller roost over flying and striking at will. net virtually. and furthermore, these armored land columns. there is a plan, a very careful planet seems for a corridor to be formed and that will involve the navy as well. with that, with the, again, these are rumors. and then these are our suggestions made by a number of military analysts before this invasion, even started that the, the move would be to,

to surround or give from all directions or to put pressure on and then amounts. amount attacks on selective targets in the center of the city and take out or any, any government that remains any, any state apparatus there is. and that, that, of course, leads to one thing that is the installation of a, of, of a russian puppet regime, potentially. we'll know what they all now uh what, what the rest saw and the fight now is, is pretty colossal. ukrainians are putting up a fierce resistance to overwhelming force from the russians and route. thank you very much. andrew simmons, they're joining us live from the ukrainian capital, kia, okay, he has a snapshot this out of what we know is happening on the ground. as of right now, russian forces of a tank areas across ukraine. multiple cities are coming under fire. this is the approximate location of those strikes russian troops have moved in by land, air,

and sea. as andrew was saying, there to the east, from russia, south from crimea, and north, from the bell, russian side, marable to be naval attacks from the sea of as off or del hamid is falling the situation in a crime torso in easton ukraine. everyone was expecting that good, big push the beginning of this world would have started here in the east with all these and more than 100000 russian troops just across the border. well, none of that happen. yes. the is sporadic shelling on along the line between the ukranian army and separate the separate is have tried a push in the region to the north east of where i'm standing. they manage to go across and a point called chest. yeah. but then the ukranian took that back, so there hasn't been

a major movement along that line we are hearing now that in the south, in the vicinity of where you pull, obviously there, there has been much more activity for the last 24 hours. there's been a lot of attack the russians trying to put a lot of pressure on the ukrainians in the area and we are hearing that they might be advancing towards bird dance, which is a city just on the coast along b as of sea. but we still don't, i still not confirmed how far they have been. but what is clear is that at the moment from what we have seen unfolding in the last 24 to 36 hours, is that russia, by attacking kid, by attacking her, he is try to put pressure there to den, have to do over ukrainian army units that are posted here in the news that are supposed to be, are reputed to be the strongest,

and the better equipped to capitulate at the moment they are standing strong and there is no major push because the rest of the separate, this can't do it alone. if they were to push, they need to wash hands with them to be able to push. because at the end of the day, the ukrainian army is a regular army is strong. it's been there for the last 8 years. it's well entrenched and it's well equipped south of come a toss. maria pull our correspondent charles straps. that is there. on thursday he saw a convoy of tanks, some flying ukrainian flags. i'm close to a check point on the outskirts all my real military vehicles behind me heading down a road heading west. nobody can see quite yet. on the other side of the road, there was a convoy of chunks appearing in the last 1015 minutes or so. we've heard the distinct, she thought,

of what sound to bay grad miss. isles being used. these are these missiles that all stay with that. so you can see the triangle coming out heading 8 to mary. awful. as i say, the last few minutes we've heard the distinctive south of dr. michelle being used in the fall. it is now across the field here. there are you quite a bit of truthfully that we on the side we're here earlier, billowing smoke coming from the other. come with me. that tag me being towed just it may well it being hit but

sir. yeah. also, increasingly we're seeing more more people leaving from this checkpoint is checkpoint. the road going down towards the west towards cities like very dense only as op c as well as denise broke in the north north west. this to me we have been speaking to a source in the navy around that fair that says that earlier today, naval force is off the coast. yeah, i don't see the coach. the presence came under fire from rush old labor russian naval vessels am at forcing them back to base will, ukraine's northeastern city of sumi has been hits in strikes overnight. the head of the original state administration says, russian troops, assets of court, and off all major cities there. and they are quotes under siege monuments. russian equipment has reportedly passed through the area and is now heading directly. this

is important to the west. let's bring in dmitri bridget, he's a russian political analyst. he joins us live from moscow. dmitri bitchy, welcome to our continuing coverage here on al jazeera, there seems to be an, it's driven by people at ben wallace, the u. k. defense minister, a growing realization in all defense capitals around the world that what mister putin wants to do is invade all of ukraine. create a corridor from crimea up to east and ukraine, surround kiev, and then obliterate if need be key f and stop ukraine functioning as a sovereign named state. is that a fair breakdown of what the plan is for the kremlin? this put in was planning for a new mon city. and so is that who did want to take over the control control he and find it on the plan that it wasn't was trying to do. it was like from the beginning when you look nice, the last a spotlight,

it was obvious that hooted is not only plenty for to take control over less kilogram. also greater yet. it's always that to was planning to take control over here and who was planning to change the government there because it's obvious that the government, their local government is not on government that will support which is sand. bell plans for europe are defined against that don't. and also trying to take revenge on grade because her brain was blank. do as was trying to join nato. and so it's obvious that now a c name does and anyways, so since it was all it's been, this is for, for an in speech. it is that you see a great as the navy country and always that is the name to be any before rush and always been thank you also to get

a belated little bit awful or aggression. because we know, after 2 years we have lexus and russia until the election and all so, and you know that the boot is that bottle or at was in the past now. so it's always a big war, is a good for of goods and do who is due for research. and that a question and the 4 elections to the office that we have now to got to go to people that you want bar look at what the degrees that supporting the war. and to see that not being the ration russians to the great on the part of their, against the war and see who does war is the big problem for russian or russian economy. and i'm interested that to me tribute j, why you use the word in relation to mr. poo soon. taking revenge on ukraine. because you saying that chimes with what many people? many analysts have said about mister putin down the years ever since he was a coach, gray officer, nothing more than a gray officer working for the k g

b. you know, there is this idea that mister putin will always, always get you back. it may take years, but he will have his revenge. yeah, of course it's always that it was planning for that. we also we have, we have a, we changed those on malackle in our institution. doesn't fancy is always that booted is trying to renew a soviet union, but another in another. you to another out with another job. you know, like, it wasn't, the soviet union is always the plan a do day can fall over rush and we saw what he did with the for a position. there's a position in question with political part. this is obvious, but was, is planning for a big black version is blank to be a lead there because you're a leader or the only leader of russia says all these now is glen dick bench over a go the gray and he's because all of that grade didn't listen to it and didn't listen. ringback it didn't fall in the region, so it's obvious now that boots on will go control over here and you know,

what will happen though the next maybe will take other countries. but solve is that it has a plan for a grade and yeah, not this plan in the past because sample of vision in the state of do my he said that who did is planning to take here. if there is a backwash from this conflict to other countries in the neighborhood, that's i guess, certainly as far as ne, so is concerned if he's got half an eye on places like latvia and lithuania natal member states, of course, that's the worst case scenario. as far as the outside world is concerned, but when you talk about the impacts of people, we've seen the pictures of the residents of kia hiding in the inside, downstairs in the metro system because there's no place else for them to go. in effect, there's been a run on the banks in effect, there's been a run on the supermarkets. the currency is beginning to dip. the russian rouble is going down by the hour some days. the global index,

the biggest global index that we've got, the dow jones that was done by almost 200 points at opening of business this time yesterday, new york time. what's the direct? some of travel of the immediate military invasion for you predict that for me, if you can an impossible question. so forgive me, because in the 1st 24 hours, we've now got defense secretaries around the world saying look, the russian forces have not achieved what they should have achieved in the 1st 24 hours on the one hand. and on the other hand, the ukrainian forces a stronger than people were thinking they were is obvious that the rest rested in b like this. so creating an army, us army, but now we have like, so depends on the caea that we have. like now the word difference is you have, we see how radians are trying to defend himself from directly invasion on the buttons trying to do in the gray. so it's obvious that food in a has a guy and not only for the office because he said, so it's,

it's always from the beginning that it will not only take them and all that he didn't planning to do, do like to try to force or to push on other other you do listen to you want to follow a vendor or european countries and other like a conference for a russian slit says always now we did is do a, b and b. shank, russia to make russia as a country that if i do get the show the all that russia is the country that give select some lessons or other counters or a who's the walls in and you reality demetrius, we'll leave it there. many thanks for talking to us from moscow, their russian political analysts, dmitri bridge, e, easy to having read to oppose sanctions, as we've been hearing here on this,

out of out sir, extended coverage to target 70 percent of the russian banking market, as well as major states and companies after close coordination with the white house, they're being submitted for approval at a meeting to, to be held in brussels to day. but the sanctions do stopped short. a blocking russia from the swift global inter bank payment system. that one is based in belgium, life, not washington. and our correspondent mike hannah, mike, i guess there was a little bit of a sense of anticlimax almost when mr. bite and finally announced that 2nd tron of sanctions. but after sanctions where if they got to go after that, well, it would appear that they believe that there are more sanctions that they can impose the, by an administration making clear that it has not exhausted its full range of sanctions at this particular point. even with that 2nd tranche, and not exactly clear exactly what those sanctions would be, that has been taught kenzie mentioned of the swift payment services. that is

something that the administration has to be clear up mainly because many of its nato allies are reluctant to incur the damage that such a move would make to exclude russia from an international payment system. but the administration is absolutely adamant that in addition to the sanctions on entities within russia, on individuals who are close to that me, a putin, they still have some more sanctions up their sleeve. now the line of the administration has been all along that once you trigger sanctions, then you lose that the terrans that sanctions display. however, it now appears that having triggered a series of sanctions, the by the administration now believes that there are more that can come, that it can still use as a deterrent even though russia has now invaded. yes, this sam yesterday mike, we were broadcasting pictures or answers about 15 hours ago. we were broadcasting pictures of mr. puts in having a big sit down conflict with various very wealthy,

very successful russian oligarchs. now, as mister putin was signaling the invasion for the past 4 months, those oligarchs have had 4 months of having a being able to think about, oh, what do we do with all our money? these are not gangster thugs. these are oligarchy. these are very clever, very intelligent people. they've had 4 months to move their resources around to take their, their money laundering. that's one of the allegations, their money laundering processes from $1.00 continent literally to another. and as long as you have an i pad or a laptop, you can do that. so i did, did the sanctions in a sense, may be closed, the barn door after the financial horses bolted here. well, many would agree with that. the ukrainian president in particular, who had been pleading with the united,

the u. s. to impose sanctions before russia invaded not afterwards as we had happened now the bite and administration, as i said, arguing very strongly that to trigger sanctions would remove the terran well. that the terran clearly did not have much impact on the decisions taken by platinum here booted. but one must also realize as well that these are incremental sanctions to impose financial blockades to single out to massive companies like gas problem or major ration bangs. it is not something that happens overnight, it takes a while for the sanctions to click into effect given as well. the fact that many analysts argue that russia and let him have who to had included in the calculations, the economic impact on whatever sanctions to the west would apply. and then these have been part of the planning all along. as you say, it's been a long period of time. this is not something that's happened overnight. there's

been a great deal of preparation. so russia is in a position where it believes it can sustain against the sanctions. the u. s. is insistent that there will be an impact on it in coming weeks, if not in coming months pointing as well, for example, to one of the most extreme sanctions, which is the effective closure of the nor stream gas line. now that had been finished, it was not in production because the germans had not certified that pipeline. now that is not going to happen. now that is something that would have a major impact in coming months, given the massive amount of last revenue that russia would suffer. but given as well on the verse, the impact that it will be on a country like germany where the pipeline ends at the lack of resources that germany will now have because the pipeline is going to be shut down. so the whole situation here is that the bite and administration having.