future generations, women in the wind on al jazeera o l g 0, a capital aah, bolden untold stories from asia and the pacific on al jazeera ah, a gun battles rang out across kiev as russian forces close in on ukraine's capital. and people try to escape. ah, hello, i'm mary m m, as in london with continuing coverage of this story, crane's present, roger, me, zalinski is saying he and his family are there,

talk to targets, but pushes for talks with russia. we must star reviews to do more nato deploying its response force and sending more weapons to ukraine, which says it's been left to defend itself alone. and the you agreed to freeze the assets of president putin and his foreign minister, sergey labrons. ah, russian forces are closing in on ukraine's capital key of on the 2nd day of an invasion that killed at least a 137. ukrainians, driven thousands from their homes and shocked the world. ukrainian military, he sang russian spies in saboteurs on the outskirts of care of the defense ministry has told residents to prepare molotov cocktails to defend their city grains present

road. amir zalinski says, russian forces have marked him in his family as that top targets, but he's refusing to leave kev, but event. she may do with national riskless thought the president is here. our troops are here. citizens are here. all of us are here protecting the independence of our country, and it will continue to be this way, glory to our defenders. glory to ukraine. glory to our heroes. flow was the landscape is pushing for talks with russia, offering to designate ukraine as a country aligned with an ivan east nor west. but the kremlin says it will only attend talks if they happen in mince, which is the capital of battle rues from where thousands of russian soldiers are crossing into ukraine. in the meantime, president vladimir putin has called on ukrainian soldiers to seize power from the government. pul brennan begins coverage now. the sound of sporadic guns pulse echo across the ukrainian capital

russian advance elements are closing in on the city or the western intelligence assessments indicate the bulk of the russian force is still around 50 kilometers away from them as the landscape latest video address was bleak. but defiant, sim, around commerce, sham unless we develop this morning, we are defending our state alone as we did yesterday. the world's most powerful forces are watching from afar. did yesterday, sanctions convince russia. we here in our sky and see on our earth. this is not enough for in troops are still trying to become more active in our territory was russia will still have to talk to us sooner or later. talk about how to enter the fighting and stop this invasion. the sooner the conversations against the smaller rushes losses will be. but satellite still, photos show massive russian reinforcements, waiting and reserve at various staging posts just across the board from ukraine. russia has the number stacked in its favor about an putin shows no sign of

relenting in a briefing to his security council on friday. the russian president again branded the ukrainian government as neo nazis. you sure so, but i shares once again, i appealed to the service men of the ukrainian armed forces. don't let neo nazis unbundle its use your children, your wives, and all the people as human shields take power into your own hands. but it seems that it will be easier for us to come to terms of use than this gang of drug addicts and neo nazis who settled in kiev and took all the cranium people hostage. ukraine's army is putting up a fight. this russian artillery convoy near the southern city of hessen, was wiped out as it traveled along the highway from crimea. and the defiance of the soldiers and ukrainian position on snake island in the black sea has captured the public imagination. the

minutes later, the entire garrison of 13 was wiped out by russian bombardment. russia says ukrainian civilians need not be worried, but this civilian motorist would disagree. his car run over by a russian personnel carrier which appeared to deliberately target his vehicle. remarkably the man was pulled alive in the wreckage. for those who want to escape time is running out in the caves main railway station. the platforms have been crammed with people trying to scramble on to trains and flee the city growth lou. yes, this is regularly interrupted by error rates are sent anyone out in the open scurrying for the safety of the nearby metro station. more than a $100000.00 ukranian civilians have already fled to neighboring countries. a

steady flow of people with crossing into romania, hungary and poland. when i left her my home going for the earlier station, just i have her, perhaps a supersonic messiah or a shell flying over my head. was an unmistakable outside sound. of such a southern just rushing close by and at the it was followed by a huge explosion somewhere down town on all the outskirts of the city. there is a glimmer of hope with the possibility of negotiations. president zalinski says he's open to discussing ukrainian neutrality, but neither side have yet agreed on a venue for such a peace summit. and in the meantime, the fighting continues. pull brennan al jazeera out there is andrew simmons is also inside ukrainian. he spoke to ukrainian family seeking safety in one of the bomb shelters in the capital key as svetlana. yes, i'm out a 0 english. can i ask you a just how?

no, just can i get my microphone in the better place with just how are you coping with this situation? ah, but have to cope for but the really we're struggling by getting stuck in here. that's the thing that we can kind of cape at the moment. we're just trying to be honest. and what do you think about the, the whole invasion of the, the way, look, sir, as to how to my putin is behaving either just terrible. it's just not on the, on the appropriate, any sybil last or whatever. and, and what a body of use towards vladimir putin in the sort of things that he's doing and say, i said again, what about vladimir putin? what do you think about what he's doing and saying just most aligned to the russians. invading just regular international laws. are you scared? like right, you know we,

we always took all fear during my don into o 12 and yet just, it's unpredictable. that's the thing. that's why we will this carrier. what is the tank so only 1215 kilometers away. i said again that we were where the tanks are getting closer. yeah. in the column here, we know that yet what you're going to do stay here with him home. safe place at the moment. you're spending a lot of time in the shelter. yeah. to nights in iraq. and what about your son? you must be asking enough to. right. how are you feeling towards this? are you hopeful? ah, well i'm scared enamel so hopefully that will have a bright future. oh, it's very terrify. hang. i was hoping, and i'm sure that in about

a few days it should be fine. now it should says a little bit very optimistic, articulate young member, a good luck to vote for hope things progress. a positive way. andrew simmons reporting that from the ukrainian capital kevin alger there is charles stratford traveled from the country's east to the ne pro in central ukraine, and he describes what he saw while he was crossing through multiple conflicts. eyes please started in mariel. paul, that very important strategic coastal city naval port only as of see in the south east there was heavy sharing there to the east of the city. we understand tanks being used. they're very poor man offering people the chance to get out of the city to be evacuated, him describing being saboteurs there, as well as situation. very worrying in the south east. we moved west towards

another port. city bare dance we had heard earlier a couple of days earlier that the naval base there, the personnel from the naval base had actually flayed and indeed when we arrived. that was indeed the case. there was no naval personnel on the bass. one security guard saying that they had all left confirmed that we spoke to our source and said, he told us that said the reason i had gone was because the russian forces was threatening to shell, the bass, and indeed the city, if they didn't leave, we left burdens can continued heading west towards the town of melissa pole where there would be reports of heavy fighting. indeed, video started appearing all heavy fighting in that city. as we approached the road got increasingly quiet. we passed a number of ukrainian military vehicles, still smoking from what we understand could well be just precision attacks,

possibly using drones. we have no way of confirming that, but as the road got quieted, we stopped off at a village and spoke to a family in this village they were getting ready to go. they'd been in contact with people in a village, further up the road between us and melissa people. and they said that there was a convoy of russian tanks heading our way. so we started crossing country, passing more burn town, ukrainian military vehicles, eventually running into columns of ukrainian soldiers, some of them withdrawing formula to all of which states they told us that the city had fall. the child had fallen to russian hands. they were most insistent that we keep heading as quickly as we could north. on the way we passed cruise missiles tanks, many infantrymen, very, very nervous, big groups of, of ukraine and infantry getting ready to, to defend the city of

a parishioner. interestingly, in the last few minutes, we're getting reports all the authorities there, potentially trying to set up some sort of evacuation from is operational. and indeed, in the last few hours, we've seen pictures of that tank column moving through some of the towns that we passed through in an around bare dance. the military that we spoke to said that they expected bear dancing to possibly fall into russian hands in the next few hours. meanwhile, in the east of the country, back around places like donnette sk between don and good mary. opal were hearing reports from villages that we visited in the last few days. they saying that the shelling is ongoing. people been hiding and bunkers in shells is absolutely terrified. one woman telling us that she was just pleading for zalinski to negotiate with putin to try and stop this onslaught. so yeah,

i'm harrowing day for millions of ukrainians. i was, i say it is quite here. the curfew is a bounce to begin, but a lot of people going to be deceiving, very nervous. as this crisis continues, dozens of people have attended an anti war protests in the russian city of saint petersburg. ah scuffles broke out when police appeared to try and break up the rally and detain. one of the protest is on thursday. hundreds of people taking part in similar rise across russia were arrested and now rusher is also saying that it is partially limited. the country's access to facebook accusing the u. s. social media giant of censoring rush and media. moscow's communications regulator says facebook as ignored its demands to lift restrictions on for russian media outlets. as go live now to bernard smith and moscow and burnett. does this move against facebook perhaps just there is a level of descent or opposition of country that the government isn't comfortable

with. well, what facebook of sad in response to the russian telecommunications ministry slowing access down is that it was ordered by russia to stop independent fact checking and labeling lit, labeling of content posted by for state media organizations, state organizations in russia during a news agency and the defense ministry channels. so in retaliation or the russian government is slowing, is restricting access to, to facebook. now it also happens that since the outbreak of the invasions that are to the invasion of ukraine at the have been increased postings on facebook and instagram by russian personalities and celebrities of anti war messages. and there may be something in the russian government wanting to try and reduce the ability of people or to post those anti war messages. there were also those protests we had in st. petersburg to night quite in moscow this evening. although

a very heavy police presence particularly around the kremlin, after some 1700 people were arrested yesterday nationwide. most of those arrests in moscow is the government there opened her diplomacy. well, there's been this offer of talks from her. vladimir zalinski, ukraine's president or vladimir putin said he was open to the idea of these talks when it was suggested that ukraine would be willing to discuss it, sir. neutrality that said i, the kremlin says it tried to arrange talks in minsk, but then ukraine said, no, they won't have the cook talks in warsaw. and now it seems that while they're not willing to discuss it further tonight, ukraine says, according to russia's foreign ministry, they might start talking about talks to morrow. all about said by the mere putin, as openly said, he wants the ukrainian military to overthrow the government in reggie in

kiev. all so, sir, i love robert. russia's foreign minister, he is said that they want the ukrainians to be independent and have the possibility to freely define their destiny. he doesn't see any pos, possibility of recognizing the current ukrainian government as democratic. this is ukrainian government headed dives automated zalinski, who 173 percent of the vote and democratic elections in 2019. so it's clear cremeans problem. putin's problem is with vladimir zalinski and we know that the kremlin is looking for regime change in key f. thank you. letters from moscow, bernard smith, thank you bonnet. all nato is sending thousands of troops backed by land, air, and sea to protect allies near russia and ukraine. dress that your general yann's dalton berg has called the crisis and new normal in european security. as, as a hedge of support came out after cleaning present. vladimir zalinski,

criticized both western nations and the nato alliance. they're not coming to his country's aid falls. it is of all in motion of ukraine. um, they are moving towards a kia on that the state, the goal is to or change to government of ukraine. ah, it is a very unpredictable situation, or therefore not receive spec clerk, but old pay my respects to the ukrainian armed forces, sir, which are really proving, though bravery under their courage, by fighting under standing up against her a much larger invading russian force. that's the latest response from natal, the european union. meanwhile, as adding russian president vladimir putin and his farmers to sa glover off to the blocks sanction less because of the invasion and recent developments and ukraine, the e s. foreign policy chief says they've also expanded the black list include all members

of the duma who supported military aggression. pushing will also join just to other wild lead a sanctioned by the you serious, bashar aside. and valerie says, alexander lucas shanker or the united nation to saying about 5000000 people could flee the fighting in ukraine into neighboring countries. and more than a $1000000000.00 will be needed for 8 operations over the next 3 months, manny and the capital key of have been crowding into train and metro stations that either trying to leave the city or seeking shelter below ground. alexey o'brien reports. oh. 2 cynthia is news in johnson with the train station. this were to leave the ukrainian capital soldiers reportedly fired into the air to disperse the crowd. so again, with holmes, the throng, we've been trying to leave all the de morning here. but as you can see, that's unrealistic, like russian troops are edging closer with explosions. heard around the

city earlier this apartment block with head oh yes. hello. i was sleeping. there was a sharp explosion and i was thrown 3 meters from the room. i was in into the corridor. the glass shattered there were sounds coming from the street. i got scared and started crawling on the floor. excellent glen, co made it out alive. emergency workers went door to door, searching for victims. and as russian tanks rolled into the city below, ground, people crowded into metro stations, exhausted and uncertain about wants to come home with them. are you with a shelter in our building is known as for underground as the metro station. that's why i think it's safer to come down here. at least a 100000 people have been displaced by the fighting. but the united nation says the number seeking refuge outside ukraine could reach 5000000. let me go over the

letter we had to leave behind everything our whole lives work. it's a terrible feeling to leave your home. you can't imagine how i feel. all these families have crossed the border into hungry, hoping it won't be too long before they can return to route on the market. there are long queues at all. the banks and the gems have been emptied. there are throngs in the shops and you pretty much can't buy anything any more. and even paying by card is not possible because some banks are not working. and there are our long queues at petrol stations. further along the frontier and poland, hot food and drinks are being served with temperatures hovering around 0 degrees celsius. some people walked 18 hours to get here. many with young children escaping what rights groups say indiscriminate attacks by russian forces. i think he is oksana. those are cartier things,

ukranian national anthem, and she flew up after the attack and it will go good. despite the devastation, an air of defiance remains alexia bryan. al jazeera, for many people in eastern ukraine. this is an escalation of a conflict that's been already raging for 8 years. in the town of holy cow, which is controlled by russian back separatist. people say shelling from the queen in armies had a secondary school. according to regional prosecutors, 2 people were killed, shall fire is also been intensifying in the rebel held areas of danielle and la hands in recent months. before their recognition as independent. i, russian president vladimir putin, that was on monday for the eulu. that was still good and i was similar that a little cook, we are fed up with this. it's been 8 years. how long can it continue? it has to and some time with him, we are people to the we want to live almost certain won't let us down and he's

a serious man and he stands for his words. was that we will be fine. we hope for the best love. and we think that russia will make it, it's a strong country. they blockade us. those are what we lived through the cold war in the soviet union we survived, were really followed mervin of people have been rallying around the world, calling for an end to the violence. dozens gathered outside nato headquarters in belgium, calling on the lines to stop booting and, and the war in taiwan and canada. people there also came out in solidarity with ukraine. many of them ukrainian saying they are worried about their families. similar demonstrations of been held in american cities as well in new york, san francisco, and los angeles. will christians most useful aloe so far, has been the bell. russian president, alexander lucas shanker, tens of thousands of russian troops of used batteries as a launch pad to invade ukraine on the capital here, which isn't far from the border. searing present. bashar assad is called putin to

express his support as it has been. a staunch ally of russia since it started bombing serious rebel held aires in 2015. turning the tide of war in the government's favor, russia strongest allies in latin america, venezuela and cuba have blamed nato for the crisis in ukraine. but of calling for the conflict to be resolved diplomatically and brazil's present jar bull scenario, who met putin in moscow just last week, is criticized his own vice president for condemning the invasion. meanwhile, the gremlins most powerful ally, china, has refused to support sanctions against russia. invasion of ukraine poses a major challenge for china, which has refused to condemn military action. katrina, you reports now from bay ging hold. you less than a month after chinese president. she didn't ping that vladimir putin. russia's liter launched the most aggressive attack in europe for decades. the china's leaders have refused to condemn the invasion or use the word invasion at all. all i

want is she would, she'd have the ukrainian issue has other very complicated historical backgrounds. today. it may not be what any of us want. so we hope that all parties will work together to give peace a chance looking good. she way china is criticizing birth, united states for exacerbating tensions and nato for ignoring what it says or rushes legitimate security concerns. china also says sanctions are ineffective and orderly harm the general population. i try to feels very strongly that the u. s. is trying to circle it and contain it. ah, russia feels the same way. ah, the combined pressure on both of them has pushed them together. and there's no question about that. so at this juncture, they feel that they are up against the us. and its allies. paging has repeated its claims of non interference, the affairs of other countries. it would provide moscow with military support,

but it has been bolstering trade, such as increasing imports of russian wheat. you don't go and throw a lifeline to russia in the middle of a period when they are inviting another country that is simply unacceptable. but this doesn't mean china condones rushes attack on ukraine. it also has good ties with kill and relies on strong trade with europe. begging must balance its friendship with moscow while maintaining relations with the west for the sake of its long term economic and strategic interests. which i literally support moscow in terms of trade and economic sense in ideology, but won't actually, you know, kind of violate western sanctions o d, you know, to, to, to, to physically help i think that situation will remain and that's what must go expects on the same day russian forces invaded ukraine. 9 chinese fighter jets entered, ty wants add to fed soon. some analysts have drawn comparisons between ukraine and the self ruled island claimed by china. a link chinese officials deny katrina you

out a 0 paging. or countries dependent on wheat and corn from russia and ukraine, a preparing for global disruption. now, the 2 countries supply more than 25 percent of the walls. wheat, lebanon, for example, depends heavily on imports from ukraine, which makes up 50 to 60 percent of its weight. to market countries already grappling with its own financial crisis and it can only store a months worth of wait a soup. last article looked la la, hey, prices started going up because shipping has become more expensive. my seller, there is fear wheat was between $370.00 and $400.00. and it went up to $410.00 during some weeks before the ukraine crisis is a high been, or more forwarded if the situation escalates and the weak market is halted, we have enough for about a months worth of weight stored in the mills. and after that we have no reserves.

so it is important that we take the situation seriously. it done a ukrainian soldier as being praised as a hero for allowing himself to be killed to so the advance of the russian army vitaly scorn was part of a team that was supposed to blow up a bridge bridge was mind. but with the russians quickly approaching, there was no time to detonate remotely. cochran radioed his unit to say he would do it remotely, and then wished them good bye. just a couple of developments to bring you here. this being, as she reported on the reuters news agency wires, quoting a source that is familiar with the situation saying that the u. s. is expected to impose sanctions on president putin. that could happen on friday. and now the european union and the u. k. have already announced that they would introduce sanctions on le jim of putin and his formula to sergey lover of we've been reporting that over the past couple of hours, but now the prospect of washington doing the same thing. of course, sir,

this as we see russians advancing towards the capital key of the rock concerns about further bloodshed. we've heard from people who say they are taking shelter in underground subway systems, seeking a protection from what could happen and we leave you now with the sounds of what's been happening in the ukrainian capital. ah, a

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good goal role with a, with want to bring up to date with the latest developments this, our russian forces are closing in on ukraine's capital. give on the 2nd day of an invasion that killed at least 237 ukrainians and driven thousands from their homes

. ukrainian military says russian spies and sabotage on the outskirts of if key of the defense ministry has told residents to prepare molotov cocktails and take.