live from lviv in ukraine. we begin live with this breaking news. the russian ukraine's leaders calling it an act of war. the russian military claims its troops encountered no resistance. this video is from a camera alongside the country's southern border with crimea which of course was annexed in crimea in 2014 and occupied ever since. another video from ukrainian border guards showing a column of military vehicles entering the country from belarus .

the pentagon is tracking the reported incursion. >> the most troubling thing that many probably governments around the world are seeing right now is that invasion from belarus. . ? . ? ask it's a very good road. easy one to travel. it will cause a lot of people a lot of concern, michael. >> ukraine also reporting missile strikes and artillery fire on airbases and cities all around the country. defense officials in kyiv claim six russian aircraft and one helicopter shot down. they are countering the russian offensive with dignity and they are inflicting losses on moscow's troops. the ukrainian's president's office depicting pictures of explosions near the capitol of kyiv. matthew chance was there when it started and when air raid sirens

went off. >> reporter: there's been an air raid siren suddenly -- oh, here it is. that's an air raid siren. several of them going off here in the center of the ukrainian capitol. now whether that's them just testing it, i don't think so given the situation we currently find ourselves in or whether ukrainian regulators picked up a missile attack within the center of the city i don't know. this adds another ominous alarming feature to what has been an ominous and alarming day so far. >> in a surprise appearance on russian television president vladimir putin called this a, quote, special military operation to protect donbas in the east of the country. it's clearly much, much more

than that. he blamed the government in kyiv for the bloodshed and said russian forces are not planning an occupation. >> translator: whoever tries to interfere with us, even more so create threats for our country, our people should know russia's response will be immediate and leave you to such experiences you have never experienced. >> ukraine's president zelenskyy went on facebook to say he's imposing martial law but urged the country not to panic. >> today each of you should stay calm, stay at home if you can. we are working, the army is working. the whole sector of defense and security is working. no panic. we are strong. we are ready for everything. we will win over everybody because we are ukraine. >> now the u.s. president joe biden condemning what he called the unprovoked and unnecessary russian invasion.

he plans a white house address in the day ahead where he is expected to announce full scale sanctions on russia. and the united nations security council met in emergency session late on wednesday for the second time this week just as the russian attack began. secretary general antonio gutierrez urged the russian president to stop attacking ukraine. kevin liptak is live from the white house. we begin with nick paton walsh from odessa. i understand you've been hearing some explosions, nick. bring us up to date. >> yeah, michael. in the last 5 to 10 minutes we heard a singular blast that was the closest and loudest that we've heard since we awoke at 5 a.m. unclear what caused it with the whole coast line curling around. it's hard to be precise as to

where this may have ee menched from. it was close enough to set off car alarms in the street below. it may be that it was close to the city center, predominantly russian speaking, main port city of odessa. it was proceeded by what sounded like two more distant explosions about some 20 minutes earlier and then this morning i should remind you at 5 a.m. we were awoken by three or four explosions and two more at 6 a.m. there is clearly some military being used around odessa and closer into the center as well. we have no idea what the causes of that are and we don't know quite what was targeted. we have not heard jets in the sky. it is startling that a city that is this kind of russian in its blood in ukraine and so far away from the disputed donbas area

vladimir putin is talking about needing to protect that has seen war in the last eight years that we are hearing blasts in this tightly packed city is quite an extraordinary development in terms of what this says about the scale of what vladimir putin might be trying to achieve. a deeply troubling morning, frankly, to wake up and see this place that wants to be so calm now on edge. michael? perhaps surprising, that far in the northern belarus, in the east in donbas and the south in crimea and where you are in the west of the country. nick, thanks for the report. nick paton walsh there. let's turn to katie bow who is with us at the pentagon with more. what are you hearing about the troop flompt? >> yeah, so, u.s. intelligence and defense officials are closely tracking russian maneuvers in an effort to understand the scope and how this campaign is going to unfold

and in some cases they're following this in real time. they're piecing together some of the same -- trying to verify some of the same open source reports that you and i and the rest of our colleagues at cnn are watching. one thing we do know that defense officials are closely watching is this movement of russian troops across the border from belarus into ukraine. this is particularly significant because of course this provides them with practically a straight shot to kyiv to the nation's capitol. and what we have heard from at least one senior u.s. lawmaker. senator marco rubio, who is the senior republican and has been receiving briefings on russian planning, he said that movement is part of russian planning to try to isolate kyiv from the rest of the -- from a large number of ukrainian forces that are operating on the country's eastern flank kind of butting up to these separatist controlled regions in the east. bottom line right now, u.s. officials closely tracking how

this ground campaign is going to unfold, what kind of air support it might receive and ultimately whether or not russia is going to hold territory. putin has said he does not intend to occupy territory by force. we've routinely seen putin and russia say one thing and do another. one thing we do know is u.s. officials are very aware of a russian doctor which is known as the art of deception in conducting warfare. >> thank you so much at the pentagon. let's bring in kevin liptak at the white house. u.s. president biden expected to speak at noon eastern time. earlier he did speak with the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. tell me about that. >> reporter: they were on the phone before midnight washington time.

zelenskyy reached out to speak to president biden. he was eager to take his call. they spoke as the explosions were coming down in kyiv, the first ones that we heard at least with our cnn teams. on that call the president says he condemns the unprovoked and unjustified attack. he said zelenskyy asked him to call on the leaders of the world to speak out about president putin's flagrant aggression and to stand with the people of ukraine. ahead of this call the president's team was huddled in the west wing. they were crafting the president's stage. this siege of ukraine, of course, is something the president has been predicting for weeks, that this could happen, would happen and really saying that he would react with severe and swift sanctions. that is what i think you're going to hear from the president tomorrow at noon when he comes out and addresses the american people. we're told that u.s. officials and european officials have been

on be the phone this evening trying to coordinate their response. the president will also be on the phone tomorrow with leaders of the g-7 to sort of ensure they're on the same page with the sanctions. now when the president does come out we expect him to talk more about these export controls, essentially limiting certain technologies that can be exported to russia. we also expect new sanctions on russian financial institutions and new sanctions of members of putin's inner circle. these are all things that the president has previewed. he once had hoped that they would deter president putin from doing what he is doing right now. clearly president putin wasn't det deterred. now determined to punish president putin. the real question is what, if anything, the president holds back, leaves on the table in terms of sanctions to punish putin as this attack continues. the u.s. has said that its sanctioned regimes against russia will be sustained. so these are all questions that

will likely be answered when the president comes out and speaks tomorrow, mike. >> all right. thanks for the reporting there, kevin liptak. thanks so much. meanwhile, leaders across the world are reacting to the invasion. the european commission president ursula vanderline is vowing to slam russia with more sanctions. have a listen. >> russia's target is not only donbas, the target is not only ukraine, the target is the stability in europe and the whole of the international peace order and we will hold president putin accountable for that. later today we will present a package of massive and targeted sanctions to european leaders for approval. with this package we will target strategic sectors of the russian economy by blocking their access

to technologies and markets that are key for russia. we will weaken russia's economic base and its capacity to modernize. >> nato secretary general tweeted, quote, this is a grave breech of international law and a serious threat to euro security. and the british prime minister boris johnson saying this, quote, president putin has chosen a path of bloodshed and destruction by launching this unprovoked attack. we will respond decisively. do stay with us here at cnn. we will have much more on russia's attack on ukraine and the world's response when we come back. at about rob's dry co? works on that too, and lasts 12 hours.. 12 h hours?! who studies that long? mucinex dmdm relieves wet and dry coughs.

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the u.s. is reacting with disbelief. have a listen. >> at the exact time as we are gathered in the council room seeking peace putin delivered a message of war in total disdain for the responsibility of this council. this is a grave emergency. the council will need to act and we will put a resolution on the table tomorrow. >> meanwhile, here in ukraine the mayor in an eastern city targeted in the attacks is warning citizens to not leave their homes today while another eastern city donepro is urging citizens not to worry. luhansk has announced a general

evacuation. we are seeing smoke billowing from a military air force. we are joined from warsaw in poland. good to see you again. i know you were one, like many others, who thought putin may well hang around the perimeter of ukraine and strangle it economically from without. i'm curious of what your reaction is to military action getting underway in the comprehensive way it has and what you think putin's calculus is. >> hi, michael. i'm surprised he has gone as far as he had. we have some military planners at the atlantic council and we thought the far he would go was the dnipra river and we were wrong. we're waking up to a whole new reality. i'm surprised i hear reports that there are hostilities deep into western ukraine. so putin went a lot further west

than i expected and i think than any of us in the west really expected. >> i guess the question is, how far will he go? he's called kyiv the capitol of ancient russia. do you think he would enter the city or lay siege to it? >> he may well do that. so in the next two to three days we should expect him to try to take out all the air defense systems and establish air dominance so that the tanks can roll in. and the russian troops will have air support so that's what we're watching for in the next two to three days. we'll see if the troops roll in from belarus and the other directions as well. at this point it looks like he's pretty intent on going into kyiv and changing the leadership there. i don't think that that's an irresponsible guess but again we don't know what vladimir putin is up to. a lot of what he's going to do is based on what happens on the ground. >> and he's essentially told everyone else around the world

to butt out at the moment. how should or could the west go now. reactive sanctions to the idea of him going into donbas, that didn't work. obviously he knew that heavier sanctions would come and he's baked that into his calculus. what more can the west do here? >> i'm afraid you're right. we the west did not respond forcefully enough with sanctions. putin is not deterred. the only thing that scares him is defensive material sent to ukraine. we need to get that sent to ukraine if and when it's possible and send more nato troops to eastern european countries nearby. i think the u.s. also should be considering some other options. president biden has ruled outputting u.s. forces on the ground in ukraine. he's been very clear about that, but he has not ruled out using u.s. air force and u.s. ships so those should be considerations

and that will get vladimir putin's attention for sure. >> yeah. i would say, he has threatened fierce recrimination if anyone else gets involved in this. how fiercely do you think ukrainians are going to resist and, you know, how capable are they to do so? i know you've written putin knows a determined insurgency would emerge. >> absolutely. so ukrainians will resist. they will fight. 45% of ukrainians have said that they will fight and defend their country with arms. we were seeing footage and i keep seeing it from your show of ukrainians leaving kyiv now. that's not the full story. a lot of ukrainians will stay put and they will defend the country. they have territorial defense units organized and ready to go. so i think putin can take what he wants right now but it's not going to be a cake walk and the russian troops will face serious resistance. you have to remember ukraine has been at this for eight years. their troops are motivated.

this is an existential crisis. yes, russia has overwhelming superiority in the air and in sea and in terms of sheer troop numbers but it isn't going to be a cake walk. >> putin of course has wanted to weaken nato for years and probably hoped that or thought that there would be fractures as all of this unfolded. has he miscalculated? has this brought europe and nato together? >> yes. this is one of his gross miscalculations. he's trying to pull nato apart and this has breathed nato together. sweden and finland may end up joining as a result of this crisis. that's the irony of putin as miscalculation. >> melinda herring, really appreciate your perspective. thanks for being with us. >> my pleasure.

thank you. now you're watching cnn's breaking news coverage of russia's invasion of ukraine. still ahead, financial markets tank and ukraine addresses the damage from moscow's military strikes. we'll be right back.

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air raid sirens went off. volodymyr zelenskyy is speaking right now i understand. let's listen. >> translator: explain to people where they are being manipulated, where they are lied to and what is happening where. we need to mobilize our spirit. i would like to speak to all our citizens, all our ukrainian media to circulate information about how our military is fighting back. there is little such information in the media right now. our military needs your support and support from our public. our army, believe me when i say this, we have an army of powerful people and our public are also a powerful force and they need to support our army. the military are engaged in heavy fighting, fending off

attacks in donbas, in the north, in the east and in the south. the enemy has sustained heavy casualties and they will be even heavier. they came to our land. ukraine is being attacked from the air, from the north to the south and national solidarity is the main support of ukraine's statehood, but i believe it's not the only one. we are issuing arms, defensive weapons to all of those capable of defending our sovereignty. anyone with military experience who is able to join the defense of ukraine must report to stations -- call-up stations.

we are calling on veterans. please follow detailed information. we have ensured among the military and we need blood. please become donors and donate your blood to our defenders. also in these difficult conditions every company, every business person is in a position to decide our future. please work for the sake of society and for the sake of each of us. everyone, all staff need to be provided with goods and services. the national bank and the banks of ukraine have all the resources necessary to secure the state's financial resource,

everything to provide for the defense of ukraine and for the interests of our people. i am grateful to all our politicians and who stand in defense of our independence. we don't have political opponents now. we are all citizens of a wonderful country and we are -- stand in defense of our freedom. be ready to support your state in the squares of your cities. we will remove sanctions on any citizen of ukraine. the security council has decided to remove sanctions to anyone who has been able to take up arms as part of territorial defense. this morning, dear citizens, this morning has gone down in history but it is a different

history for us and for russia. we have severed diplomatic relations with russia. ukraine is defending itself and shall not cede its freedom to ukrainians, the independence and the right to live on our land is the highest value. russia has attacked our state in a cunning way, in a way that germany did during the second world war. from today our countries are on opposing sides of world history. russia is on the path of evil but much depends on the russian people. the people of russia will have to choose which path each of them takes.

anyone in russia who has not lost their honor, they have time to come out and protest against this war, against a war on ukraine. and i would like to appeal separately both to the citizens of ukraine in russian also to russians. i know that this is not being shown on your tv channels and much is being blocked on social media, but this ooevil, this desire to eliminate a nation is impossible to block. you cannot block history, therefore, dear citizens of ukraine u our strong citizens of ukraine, anyone who has families

in russia, journals, bloggers in russia, they must talk about this then russia will know the truth. it is important. thank you. we will update you every hour. we will talk to you every hour with our population, with our public, for now on this is our multi-million army. glory to ukraine. >> there you go. the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy there with an emotional address. a couple of things he said. first of all he announced he had severed diplomatic relations with russia saying russia is on the path of evil. he is calling on russian citizens to come out and protest about this war. he acknowledged most russians aren't seeing what you watching us here are seeing and saying that ukrainians who had

relatives and friends in russia should reach out to them directly and ask them to protest and spread the word. he said the enemy had sustained heavy casualties, he called for blood donations. this is interesting too. he said authorities will be issuing weapons to those capable of defending the country and in fact asked for people who are capable to go to stations to be issued with weapons. let's go now to our nick paton walsh in the port city of odessa. nick, i know you were listening to this. striking, basically calling on people to get out, get armed and go fight. >> reporter: yeah. calling people to fight in the squares of the towns in which they live. to some degree a call for unity, a sign of some sense of desperation of what may lie ahead. much of the analysis of what

they may do and give the ukrainian military less of a chance. it will face a population that is bitterly angry at their presence. that is what ukraine's president is trying to harness. i should point out what we heard in the last 10 minutes. another explosion on the horizon here. i think we'll be able to play for you the sound of that. let me just be quiet while that happens. this was a substantial blast we think on the other side. bay here. there is quite a bed of ukrainian military hardware. possibly 2 dozen russian

warships out there. it was pretty substantial ricochetted across here. it came about ten minutes after we heard at the closest we've heard here since we got here and we have woken up at 5:00 for the first blasts. that explosion set off a car alarm near us varying reports of what may have been targeted. no clarity from the officials here. this gives us a sign as to how widespread this offensive is going to be. russian speaking port city. ukraine's gateway to the maritime world, vocal to its economy. third largest city. it appears to be partially in russian cross hairs. we don't know if what they're doing, if these explosions are

related to the russian invasions. they're trying to isolate this. it might be something that might be attempted. seemed crazy, frankly, to try to do that in this town but crazy is the watch word of the day sadly. this consistent series of blasts, i mean, intermittent as they've been since 5:00 this morning is troubling because we are so far away from those temperatures, territories that vladimir putin said it was about trying to protect. it makes it clear there is a much wider mission afoot here for russia. >> absolutely. yeah. great reporting. thank you, nick. nick peyton walsh there in the key strategic port city of odessa. appreciate it. much more from ukraine coming up. first, let's go to isa soares in london. >> thank you very much, michael. we are following global market reaction at this hour. european markets are open and they are tumbling. we'll bring you the dow futures and all of the news after the

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more now on the breaking news out of ukraine where a russian attack is underway. russia has launched an attack. this exclusive video shows military vehicles, you can see there, entering ukraine from belarus where russia has been conducting military drills. the belorussian president says his troops are not taking part in the russian operation. to the south, russian troops have been seen entering the country from crimea. while the crisis escalates on the ground, over ukraine the air space remains empty. a move that evac cue waits

indian nationals to turn around air flights. european markets have been open just about two hours and trading sharply lower given russians attacking ukraine. the ftse down just over 2, almost 2.5%. xetra dax falling 3.5%. earlier we saw the french cac falling around 4%. not very far from that. u.s. futures taking a sharp turn as well as the tensions escalate as we see what's unfolding on the ground at ukraine. the dow fell with expectations of 1.5%. the very incredibly volatile given everything that is happening. of course, this comes after a fifth straight day of losses for the u.s. indices. on the oil front, oil prices surging earlier thursday with

brent crude briefly surpassing $100 a barrel for the first time since 2014. now 103 brent crude, wti at 98. u.s. oil jumps as much as 6%. almost over 6.5% or keep an eye on the markets. meanwhile, russian stocks have plunged 45% as trading resumed on the russian stock exchange. the ruble has crashed on an all-time low as well as europe. as russian troops move into ukraine, so does a wave of cyber attacks on ukrainian websites. there was a data wiping tool found on hundreds of computers. it is still unclear who is clear on that. it took down eight ukrainian government websites. they include the foreign and justice ministry sites. a top u.s. senator overseeing

them telling them to go beyond ukraine. they say it could also hit nato countries and possibly trigger the activation of the collective defense path. businesses are also being told to watch for potential ransomware attacks while security and intelligence agencies have been preparing, of course, for potential hacking threats. he's speaking with us from here in london. good morning to you. thanks for joining us. this is deeply troubling, what's happening on the ground in ukraine, but we're seeing another attack. an onslaught of cyber attacks we've just outlined. what's your assessment of president putin's cyber attacks? what's unfolding here? >> good morning. this is a sobering time.

if i focus on the cyber element. the history of this. we've had disruptive cyber attacks by russia and ukraine since 2014. they've used it as a testing bed, as a playground. this has taken place from the russian state, russian affiliate and they've attacked the energy, trucking, finance, electoral, continuous business disruption. there are three main things russia has been doing really. intelligence gathering is very important. this benefits russian foreign policy decisions. what we're going to see more of now as we've been through the invasion stage operations are disrupting to see the ukrainian military. th there's a psychological element. when you take down the financial systems, you threaten power grids. you threaten soldiers on the grouped. you undermine trust in infrastructure, systems, that's the important factor to take

into account as to why russia conducts the attacks. >> james, you give us some insight in how these translate on the ground. you're talking about crippling infrastructure, potentially telecons and the like here. >> yes. i think we have to be very careful with the hyperbole of cyber warfare and play it down. since i've said this is taking place since 2014, there's something new here. russia is not going to install a new government in ukraine through cyber attacks alone, there's not going to be one big cyber attack. what we're seeing here is the chipping away of death by 1,000 cuts really of consistent attacks. lots of low level attacks as well. i think this is important. this has allowed russia to have plausible viability. while we do attribute the attacks to russia, we can't 100% prove it's them. the low-level attacks, chipping away at the confidence of

infrastructure. we saw this with the ddos attacks on the ukrainian government departments you mentioned at the top followed by actually what you look at. if you look under the hood at the end, what you see is they wiped files. now there's a question about how much operational impact did this have really on their military campaign? perhaps very little. what it does do, it's undermined that trust and that's really important when you're wagging war. >> absolutely. very important on the ground right now. give me a sense, james, of what we could -- the ricochet here, the impact here for other nato allies, including the united states. what measures should they be putting in place and thinking about if this escalates on the cyber front? >> right. this is really important. the u.s. and u.k. in the past few weeks have lots of advisories to businesses, government departments to protect themselves against cyber attack. i think the reason why this is

the case is they're worrying about unintended consequences. a lot of ukrainian infrastructure will be part of a complex global supply chain. so when you attack ukrainians, it can spill over. we saw a shipping company. while there's no specific threat that's been identified for western businesses, those unintended consequences of a cyber attack are clear. onto the solutions really. what we're talking about are basic cybersecurity methods. you could argue it's a bit too late to be talking about it 24 hours after the invasion. we're talking about critical assets. segmenting. using two factor authentication. all of the good cybersecurity measures they apply now more than ever. >> james sullivan, thank you

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hello to everyone from lviv, ukraine. volodymyr zelenskyy says russia has not started a war on just ukraine but the entire democratic world. this is near the capitol where the main international airport is. u.s. president joe biden claimed the attack was unprovoked or unjustified. he's set to lay out additional consequences for moscow in the hours ahead. mr. biden will take part in a

meeting with g-7 leaders to discuss it. landmarks are awash in ukraine's national colors last night to show unity with kyiv. brandenberg gate was lit up blue and yellow amidst the ongoing crisis between ukraine and russia. officials calling it a clear sign of support for a free and sovereign ukraine. paris's city hall also globed the same colors. french and german authorities coordinating the displays. a statement from paris saying they mark the, quote, necessary solidarity and unity that europe must show in this conflict. and before we go, i want to remind you who this invasion will impact. normal people like you and i simply going about their daily lives in an independent democratic nation now caught up in the this rongs of war.

clarissa ward caught this on the streets in ukraine. >> reporter: a small group of people have gathered in the main square and they are kneeling and praying because right now there is truly a sense of having no idea what is coming down the pipeline, what is in store for the people of ukraine in the coming hours, in the coming days and it's freezing cold here so to see these people kneeling on the cold stone in prayer is honestly -- it's very moving and i think it speaks to the state of ordinary ukrainians here who have done absolutely nothing to deserve this, who have no quarrel with russia, who have no desire for war or conflict, who are not engaged with the geopolitics underpinning all of this and yet who will ultimately

be the ones to bear the brunt of this multi-pronged attacks on a sovereign, independent nation. >> cnn's clarissa ward reporting earlier. and a sense of fear gripping ukraine this morning. i'm michael holmes in lviv, ukraine. our breaking news continues on "new day" with brianna keilar and john berman. you're watching cnn.

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this is cnn breaking news. good morning to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. it is thursday, february 4th and i'm brianna keilar with john berman beginning with breaking news. russia has launched a large scale military attack on a number of ukrainian cities. ukraine calling this an act of war. explosions heard throughout the night in kyiv, mariupol, and sirens going off in the western city of lviv. it is in the eastern side of the