this is bbc news. the headlines: another terrifying night for the citizens of kyiv with reports of a massive explosion south—west of the capital. this is the scene live in the city as people seek shelter from further russian military attack. the exodus grows, more than 100,000 have already fled to neighbouring countries. tougher sanctions on russia, the eu calls for a number of russian banks to be removed from the swift banking system. as russia goes ahead with their assault on ukraine and other cities, we resolve to impose on putting massive costs on

russia. ., ., ., russia. international condemnation - russia. international condemnation on - russia. international| condemnation on the russia. international- condemnation on the russian invasion, protest taking place around the world. welcome to bbc news. it is now six o'clock in the morning in the ukrainian capital, kyiv. there have been several powerful explosions in the city as residents have spent another night in shelters, multiple reports they went explosion was caused by a missile attack on an oil depot on a town south—west of the capital. the fire can be seen glowing in the night sky. 0n the ground in ukraine, russian troops have been spreading out in parts of the north, east and south. particularly the ease with there is the border. the map shows how much of the ukraine is currently under russian

control. the first report is from our international correspondent. the rush to kyiv, a capital under attack. as we headed for the city this morning, there was little moving — apart from ukrainian troops. but the russians are watching from the skies, ready to strike, as they did here, just an hour outside the capital. well, this is what we've come across on the road to kyiv. this convoy was obviously travelling to the city to be part of the defence of kyiv. this is an air defence missile system. it was hit yesterday. the smoke is still rising here. deep bo0m. and here, too, after an early—morning strike on a block of flats near kyiv�*s giuliani airport. the authorities here say it was a russian missile strike. and it killed two people.

sirens wail. it could have been many more, but many locals had already fled or taken cover in shelters. yuri shevchuk, who lives nearby, says the west must help ukraine. i wanted to say for you, for your governments, that we are in need, urgently in need, as soon as possible, as much as possible, we are in need of anti—aircraft missiles, we are in need of anti—tank missiles, we need ammunition. is there any message that you would wish to send to president putin? i wanted to say to president putin that only one way for him — it's the way to hell. well, this is what kyiv woke up to this morning. all of this destruction is in a residential area in a european city, and there is a real sense here now that nowhere in the capital is safe.

and so much of kyiv now looks like this. still standing but bracing for impact. ukraine's embattled president, volodymyr zelensky, took to the deserted streets shooting a selfie video to reassure his people. iam here i am here and we will not lay down our arms, he said. far from it, _ down our arms, he said. far from it. we _ down our arms, he said. far from it, we found _ down ourarms, he said. far from it, we found ukrainian taking up arms, forming volunteer brigades, to take the city, alongside the local police. this volunteer, who goes by the nickname molloy, said, "i don't want to live in russia, "and my brothers—in—arms don't want that either. "we will defend this city or i will die."

the volunteers are looking for russian saboteurs, said to already be in the city. nearby, we met this lady come out walking her dog and venting her fury. "we demand an end to the war", she says. "we can do it with sanctions. we must isolate the aggressive country. it terrorises the whole world. with russian forces at the gates, some are still fleeing the capital. for now, the city remains in ukrainian hands, but the battle may be just beginning. 0rla guerin, bbc news, kyiv. coloneljohn spencer is head of urban studies at the west point military academy. colonel, is there a realistic prospect of

urban warfare in ukraine and if so, what does it look like? absolutely, james. the battle for kyiv has just started and what we have seen his reconnaissance elements trying to penetrate into the capital. kyiv has to be protected. it will be much more violence and i highly recommend, like they are, that they are fighting and making it as painful as possible. there is not a single ukrainian city that has fallen yet and it speaks a lot but the battle of kyiv is coming and it is going to get very rough. how dangerous may it be for russian forces? urban warfare is the hardest of any military to include russia, he was not showing it is superior in urban warfare, the hardest to do. at the ukrainian military and the volunteers use their urban area to their advantage, they can make ukrainians pay a very large price and i actually had hoped they could cause such a

big price that russia does not win. i big price that russia does not win. ., ., , ., win. i wonder what your assessment _ win. i wonder what your assessment is - win. i wonder what your assessment is so - win. i wonder what your assessment is so far - win. i wonder what your assessment is so far of| assessment is so far of russia's tactics? we have been reporting for several days of explosions in its attempts to carry out missile strikes including one several hours ago on an oil depot?— on an oil depot? they are clearly trying _ on an oil depot? they are clearly trying to _ on an oil depot? they are clearly trying to soften i clearly trying to soften targets. clearly trying to, which any military does, attack targets at long—range because they don't want to close fight and they do not want their forces walking into a street not knowing what is there. they are using long—range munitions to strike, trying to take down air defence systems, trying to find the most lethal, threatening weapons, the javelins, the stingers, but they are not being successful. they are still paying a huge price. but i think the main assault is still to come, likely from the north, into kyiv, and i think they have to

prepare and turn kyiv into a massive porcupine with a thousand cuts and russia will grind to a halt. urban warfare is called the great equaliser for a reason. is called the great equaliser fora reason. ukrainians is called the great equaliser for a reason. ukrainians have a real chance. for a reason. ukrainians have a real chance-— real chance. what have you learnt from _ real chance. what have you learnt from the _ real chance. what have you learnt from the urban - real chance. what have you i learnt from the urban warfare you have seen in your lifetime? are not only, ijumped in on part of the american invasion forces in iraq in 2003 and then in 2008, and it is very hard and honestly very scary. a single sniper in urban terrain can cause a lot of fear in soldier's minds and there are plenty of things that can be done. i'm afraid that may be coming with massive amounts of fire that you may use if you know where the enemy is, such as your attack in an urban area, some really concern for civilians in kyiv and other popular areas that they get to shelters and get underground. i have seen some rough urban warfare and this will be

historic, but i have never seen a population rise up like it is. and make it this hard. haw is. and make it this hard. how significant _ is. and make it this hard. how significant is _ is. and make it this hard. how significant is the _ is. and make it this hard. how significant is the military - significant is the military support which has been playing each debt is pledged by the west including in a policy from germany?— germany? huge, ithink ukrainians— germany? huge, ithink ukrainians have - germany? huge, ithink ukrainians have shown i germany? huge, ithink. ukrainians have shown the germany? huge, ithink- ukrainians have shown the world that they weren't just not quick. the presidents messages say that hope is the best weapon than anything on the battlefield and i am to include germany's pledged to help with vital munitions that they need to continue to make russia pay, i think that will continue to come. they are showing the world that this is a chance to put putin back in his cage and stopped the expansion and what he is doing. stopped the expansion and what he is doing-— he is doing. coloneljohn spencer. _ he is doing. coloneljohn spencer, thank- he is doing. coloneljohn spencer, thank you - he is doing. coloneljohn spencer, thank you so i he is doing. coloneljohn - spencer, thank you so much. thank you. there has been a shifty consensus over banning russia from the interbank payment

called swift. even on friday they said it was not time to include —— exclude russia but on saturday, ursula von der leyen says that the eu was proposing that a number of russian banks were removed from swift. she also said the russian central bank would come under pressure. we will stop putin from using his war chest. we will paralyse the assets of russia's central bank. this will freeze its transactions and will make it impossible for the central bank to liquidate assets. and, finally, we will work to prohibit russian oligarchs from using their financial assets on our markets. all of these measures will significantly harm putin's ability to finance his work.

a little earlier i spoke to a senior adviser to the us congress on sanctions and foreign policy and he told me that the move on swift would make a difference. the swift ban is very important, very important politically in particular. it becomes something of a cause celebre for president zelenskyy and all those who are supporting ukraine and it is very important from the perspective of continuing to isolate russia. it will, from an economic perspective, be somewhat...not weak but much of what it will accomplish has already been accomplished with the financial sanctions that have already been placed on russian banks. what about moves towards russia's central bank? those are the real deal. now we're about really serious economic and financial cost. sanctioning a central bank is rare and, you know, if done full—throatedly

could lead to a total breakdown and the ability to engage in monetary policy, which means you could see the rouble simply go into freefall. we have looked then at the central bank and looked at swift and noticed that western countries in recent days are targeting a number of oligarchs, those billionaires were seen to be close to vladimir putin. i wonder if there is a paradox there. if you are rich enough to be targeted, then surely you are also rich enough to have worked out ways around sanctions. yes. that is very true. and i think it is an extremely good point. sanctions are still important from the perspective of, again, much like censuring putin and lavrov as has been done, not so much for immediate economic impact but from the perspective of you are not welcome here, your money is not welcome here and you are banned from these countries and so on and so forth. now, what is very exciting, again, from an economic perspective and from the money

perspective is that it appears a new transatlantic task force will be formed which... whose job it will be to simply investigate all of these oligarchs and to hunt their money down wherever it is, to seize their yachts, to seize their real estate, to seize everything, their money in bank accounts, to ensure that their children are not going to school here, that their money is not being used to buy any family members or anything like that. so there will be follow—up on this. it will notjust be purely the sanctions, it appears going to make a concerted effort to hunt down all of this money. do sanctions ever bring down governments? there have been sanctions against iran and north korea, syria in recent years and those regimes have not changed. sanctions are notjust about, they are notjust about deterrence and they are also notjust about bringing down a government. they are not about favourable change. it is about protecting ourselves and rendering these regimes, these extremely harmful regimes, the dictatorial regimes less violent, less harmful to the international community,

taking away their resources and their ability to harm us and that is what we are thinking about here. it is important to recognise that, yes, they have not fallen but they have unable to do much less damage to the world order. their ability to attack us is much less and in that sense they have accomplished their mission. their money is no longer in our society, they are no longer undermining us from within or, in the case of ukraine, from without, and actual invasion that has been the result, over a decade of crossed redlines without serious sanctions. so sanctions work and these sanctions are very, very powerful and will, indeed, render russia a rogue state and lock it down and isolated. we have yet to talk about energy

because russia is a huge producer of all sorts refugee agencies are wanting that many will cross into borders to escape ukraine. this report from the west of ukraine. alljourneys now lead west. in days, the lives of millions upended. the only thought is to get to safety. many of us thought that it is just an informational war. and we don't understand why putin does it. we need help from world we say help, help, because we are here. we are alone here. siren blares and the sound they have to learn to live with. the russian army might be

far from lviv but there is still a state of high alert. the sound triggered a panic attack for this woman. it is still the case here, despite the war, that the young trust their parents to protect them, whatever might come. however strange the world that they have been cast into. their hope is that the train would help them avoid this. the line of cars to the polish border. those people are moving on foot down towards the border of poland but it is another 20 kilometres from where we are at the moment. we need to move out of the way and let more people pass us here. they are coming. a constant procession of people.

however they arrive at the border, this slow shuffle out of the lives that they knew is what awaits. back at lviv station, word that a train to poland will leave in half—an—hour. but there will only be one this afternoon and so many, desperate to escape. this train is going now towards dnipropetrovsk, which is in the east. no good to the people standing around me who want to get west as fast as they can, away from what they fear will be the advance of the russians. and there are thousands of people along this platform. can any train possibly take the number of people who are here? it seems very doubtful. there is an air of desperation. quiet desperation but no less real for that.

the train to poland arrived. crowd clamors this is hard to credit, to believe, in the europe of 2022. people are crushing all around me trying to get onto these trains. woman screams a young mother with a baby there screaming because everyone is getting crushed. this is not the result of any accident. it was created by mr putin's deliberate choice and it is they who must carry the burden. fergal keane, bbc news, lviv. more than 100,000 ukrainians have sought refuge in neighbouring poland. michael owen reports now from the 0wen reports now from the polish side of the border.

an arrival from next door, but which is now another world. the overnight train from kyiv pulled into eastern poland today, carrying europe's neighbours, seeking safety from russia's bombs. it took us 52 hours to get here. kateryna leontieva and her daughter came from kharkiv, in eastern ukraine, as the missiles rained down on her city. how did it feel, having to leave your homes? i don't know yet. i'm, yeah... like, tears arejust coming, you know? i think i didn't feel anything then, and i'm starting to realise, yeah. but i hope it's just a short time trip and we will be back soon. the i9th—century train station at przemysl is now a modern refugee reception centre. those arriving welcomed with open arms before travelling on around poland and europe. among them, irene and her children, her husband left behind to defend

their homeland. they want to stay there to fight because they are heroes. how do you feel about your husband being there now? i'm afraid. i'm afraid but we believe that everything will be all right. we want to return soon and we are praying for them. poland has become a vital lifeline in and out of ukraine, welcoming those fleeing and sending ammunition and supplies back to those who are remaining. as europe's newest war prompts europe's freshest refugee crisis, it's now poland and no longer the mediterranean that's on the humanitarian frontline. for irene and herfamily, anotherjourney now starts — on to relatives in italy. homes, people, livelihoods, are being uprooted — scenes europe thought were confined to the past. mark lowen, bbc news,

przemysl, eastern poland. the ukrainian president has urged all citizens to resist the russian invasion of the country. as sarah rainsford reports from the city, people from all work different walks of life are answering his call. this was saturday in dnipro. women making molotov cocktails in the park. housewives, businesswomen and lawyers, all now preparing for the defence of their city. arina is an english teacher in normal life. nobody thought this would be how we would spend our weekend. nobody thought, but now we're doing this, and it seems like the only important thing to do now. we can'tjust live our ordinary life, even if we are safe, so we have to do something. these are scenes unimaginable to most in europe. they were unthinkable

here, too, until now. but these women say sitting home doing nothing would be even scarier. it suddenly feels like this whole city has sprung into action. people are donating whatever they can, for soldiers and for those forced to flee here from the fighting, but also for if this strategic city comes under siege itself. and men and women are signing up for weapons, ready to fight against troops sent by president putin. he really believed that he can take ukraine and to make from ukraine, russia. it's fake and we don't believe in it and we're really angry. dnipro is already feeling the cost of this war, taking the casualties from other cities. people are bringing all sorts of things now

to this military hospital. they're bringing syringes, they're bringing medicines, they're bringing bandages, because they know that the staff here are under real pressure now. this place is already full. there's already 400 injured soldiers here. they are used to war here in the east, but sergei tells me this is intense, with hundreds of injured soldiers brought in every day. translation: before, | we used to know exactly where the fighting was happening and we could prepare for the wounded before they got here. now, there's a constant flow. the city is coping, everyone rallying round. but the mood in dnipro has darkened today. the pressure on everyone is increasing. sarah rainsford, bbc news, dnipro. pro ukraine demonstrations have taken place across the world as thousands have taken to the

streets to denounce rushes assault on its neighbour. the invasion has sparked a global out cry and prompted punishing sanctions from the west. all chant: ban russia from swift! _ ban russia from swift! around the world, people are voicing concerns, outside the white house they are calling for the us government to ban russia from the swift financial payment system. all chant: usa, support ukraine! | protests in new york... we are ukrainians living in new york and we are desperate to ask people to help ukraine to fight. ..and in colombia. scenes in brussels as protesters relay their message to drivers from a bridge. in israel, this was the message. we need your help. we need help from european nations, from nato, from all around the world. don't stay at home. choose your words. from inside russia in

ekaterinburg, police detained protesters who dare to raise their voices. these people march but there are no banners and there is silence, but it is still a show of opposition. resistance shows itself in many ways — a ukrainian asks a russian tank driver, "have you broken down? "can i tow you back to russia?" man laughs. it is now 6:25am in kyiv. this is a live shot from the centre of kyiv, filmed next to saint michael's golden dome monastery. in 21 minutes time the sun will rise in kyiv and you can see some of the lights already on and hundreds of thousands, perhaps several million people, will begin to emerge from the shelters but daylight does not mean freedom

because there is still a curfew in force until monday and there is still the fear of further russian advances. hello. the weather through the remainder of the weekend is continuing on that fairly dry, settled theme. we've got high pressure in charge of our weather. a bit more cloud pushing in and breeze across northern ireland and scotland but certainly, for england and wales, we've had fairly clear skies on saturday and it's going to be a similar picture into sunday as well. here's the satellite image. it shows this area of cloud out to the north—west of the uk. this is a weather front which is just starting to move in. you can see the proximity of the isobars. there's some breezier weather across northern and western areas but as this front pushes its way eastwards, it bumps into a big area of high pressure, so it's tending to fizzle out through the day on sunday. certainly a chilly start, particularly for england and wales, with a touch of frost around. also for eastern scotland, a bit of a chilly start. plenty of sunshine for most areas. we have got this weak front

draped through the irish sea, bringing more cloud to parts of western scotland. northern ireland, a few spots of drizzle here, and a bit of that cloud into the likes of pembrokeshire and cornwall, too. but light, southerly winds for most of us, so if you've got the blue sky and the sunshine, it's going to feel quite pleasant out there with temperatures between around about 8—11 degrees on sunday. and as we move through into the evening hours, then, initially, things are still looking quite dry and clear and we keep the clear spells for longest across eastern england. but from the west, this next band of cloud and patchy rain moves in. this is another weather front, and that's going to be with us to start off monday morning. so, not as cold first thing monday — certainly compared to first thing sunday — because we've got more cloud, outbreaks of rain and more of a breeze around, too. so, monday's weather, then, will be dominated by this frontal system which slowly pushes its way eastwards across much of the uk. i think it'll be quite slow to reach east anglia and the south—east, so here, you may well keep some sunny spells through the course of the day on monday but elsewhere, a fair bit of cloud. windy conditions — gales possible up towards the western isles, for instance

— and that rain will clear out of scotland and northern ireland, but it will be quite slow—moving for parts of northern england into wales, down towards the south—west as well. another fairly mild day — temperatures up to around 12 degrees. heading on into tuesday and high pressure sits across much of the uk, but we've got this trailing frontal system, so that may welljust spill some rain across some southern counties of england, perhaps into south wales as well, but there's still some uncertainty about exactly how far north or south this system is going to be. but across much of the uk, we are thinking that high pressure will dominate, bringing a lot of dry and settled weather. a touch cooler, i think, on tuesday. looking ahead towards the middle of the week, still a bit of rain lingering in the south on wednesday and more rain in the north—west by thursday. bye— bye.

report from the west of ukraine.

this is bbc news. the headlines: there have been several powerful explosions thinking of as residents hunkered down for another night. multiple reports they went explosion was caused by a missile attack on an oil depot south—west of the city. the fire can be seen glowing in the night sky. the un refugee agency says the russian invasion has driven more than 150,000 to flee ukraine to other countries and the vast majority have gone to poland, to join friends and family and others have gone to countries including hungary, moldavia, romania and slovakia. a western coalition including the us, european union, canada and uk is to cut off some russian banks from the swift banking system. eu commission shave ursula von der leyen says the aim was to cripple the ability of vladimir putin to finance his war machine.