calm. the only places we saw groups of people were atm lines, every single atm. some ran out of money although we did see some still had money early this evening. then there were gas lines. this one was outside the city. we did see a few stations ran out, but the lines were incredibly calm. i spoke to some people and one woman told me as her voice broke she had a plan to leave for poland when the unimaginable happened, but when it did she decided to stay. there's so much we don't know tonight, but we do know the people we have met here over the past cup of weeks have all had an incredible reservoir of strength. thank you for joining us. ac 360 starts now. good evening. ukraine tonight bracing for what the coming hours might bring. already it's seen russian forces attack on three fronts with concerns now growing what an

american lawmaker said could be an imminent move on the capital. speaking late tonight ukraine's president zelenskyy said russian saboteurs were already there targeting him. >> translator: according to our information the enemy has marked me as target number one. my family is target number two. they want to destroy ukraine mittically by destroying the head of state. we have information that enemy sabotage groups have entered kyiv. >> secretary state blinken spoke to that threat as well tonight on abc news. >> i'm not in a position to comment on exactly what's going on the ground at this moment, but what we do know and part of the russian plan has been to put -- put kyiv in danger, to assault the capital. we're seeing forces come in from the north, from the east, from the south. and that's all part of the plan we've laid out for the world in recent weeks. >> you're convinced putin's going to overthrow this government? >> i'm convinced he's going to try to do that. >> if true would be chilling certainly, but not exactly

unknown or unthinkable in the russian or soviet way of waging war. already 137 ukrainian troops have been killed according to president zelenskyy, 316 wounded with more fighting certain in the coming hours. as only cnn can we've got reporting up close. and because there's so much to catch up with let's begin with this from jim sciutto. >> reporter: ukrainian airports under bombardment, air-raid sirens across the country, explosions still lighting up the sky outside the city of kharkiv tonight. these are scenes of what many thought could not have happen, an unprovoked invasion into ukraine on a massive scale, the

biggest in europe since world war ii. russian forces began hitting targets across ukraine overnight. a senior u.s. defense official said russia has now launched more than 160 missiles. russian president vladimir putin announced what he called a special military operation. he refused to call it a war. >> putin is the aggressor. putin chose this war, and now he and his country will bear the consequences. >> reporter: today president biden implemented a massive wave of insanctions in response to the invasion. >> this is going to impose severe cost to the russian economy both immediately and over time. we have purposely designed these sanctions to maximize a long-term impact on russia. >> reporter: he made it clear that the u.s. would not send troops to fight in ukraine, but the pentagon announced some 7,000 u.s. troops that had been placed on standby would be sent to europe, possibly to bolster the defensive nato response.

>> i've also spoken to secretary austin and general milly about preparation for additional moves should they become necessary to protect our allies. >> reporter: ukrainian forces are fighting back. they say they've shot down at least two russian helicopters and five other aircraft. a senior u.s. official familiar with the latest intelligence assessments tells me there is fairly good resistance by the ukrainians particularly around the city of kharkiv. however, it's the u.s. view russia has already established superiority over ukraine. it intends to control at least the eastern two thirds of the country. western troops allowed a cnn team to film them on the ground. these forces less than 20 miles from the capital kyiv. and tonight ukraine says the russian military has taken control of chernobyl, the site of the infamous 1986 nuclear disaster. some ukrainian citizens attempted to flee with a possible refugee crisis

developing. >> my family stays here and i feel like i don't know when i will see them. i don't know if any of them will die or my friends will die. >> reporter: as ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy urges calm and shows strength -- >> translator: dear world leaders, leaders of the free world, if you don't help us today with a strong and powerful response, war will come knocking at your door tomorrow. >> reporter: the horrors of putin's war are becoming apparent in multiple cities as millions were killed as russian forces shelled residential areas and beyond. >> that was jim sciutto reporting. talk to jim in just a moment. he's in a western part of the country. want to start with clarissa ward who was in the east. 24 hours ago you said kharkiv felt like a city on edge. there was talk about potential forces of rewrsistance around kharkiv. what is it now?

>> reporter: anderson, i don't know if you remember 24 hours ago behind me the public square was all lit up, certainly quiet and tense but nothing like it has been today. there has been steady rounds of strikes coming around the town. there's a curfew in place now from 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. we heard from the kharkiv civil military administration basically asking people to volunteer as drivers to try to keep the city functioning, to try to be able to continue basic services here. they've also been asking people to donate blood, anderson. reportedly 400 people came forward today to do that. and as we saw many were finding shelter in subway stations. it's just surreal to think there would have been commuters there one day, and then today hundreds and hundreds of people, children, dogs, animals, families hunkered down, waiting this out, trying to get a better sense of what's going to happen because this city as you just

mentioned and as jim mentioned in his report, is uniquely vulnerable. we're just 20 miles away from that border with russia. we know that russian troops have already come through. we hear that ukrainian forces have been engaged in fighting and trying to defend this area, but the real question becomes at what point do they start an all-out assault on this city if that is indeed their plan? it's also possible they might try to surround the city or lay siege to it or bypass it completely. but because there is such a lack of clarity here, anderson, what you're seeing is an entire city of 1.4 million people in a state of deep fear and really not being given any information as to what they should do to protect themselves, where they can go that's safe. i asked one woman. i said do you have a car? is there somewhere you can go. and she said, yes, i have a car but where is there to go? where is safe in ukraine anymore, anderson. >> jim, you're in lyviv.

just in terms of what you've been seeing and hearing and the people you have been talking to, where are peoples heads at tonight? >> reporter: anderson, there's not a part of this country, the second largest country in europe, in fact, after russia, that has not been targeted by russian air strikes in the last, well, just under 24 hours. lyviv hit by rocket attacks. and it shows the scope and breadth of this russian operation. just to give you a sense of how this country feels it is now necessary to respond it was a short time ago the russian president volodymyr zelenskyy instituted a general mobilization order. that means calling on conscripts to come up. it means calling on reservists to come up and do their service. it also really a remarkable requirement when you think about it that all males aged 18 to 60

are now barred from leaving the country so that they can be called pawn to help defend. the trouble, anderson, and this is the sad factor of the mathematics of this war is that the ukrainian military is vastly outnumbered. it's outgunned. it's outarmored. russia as i mentioned in the story already maintains air superiority. this is a mismatch. it's not clear that ukrainians fighting on their own can keep up this defense for long. u.s. military assessments of the battle are not hopeful, frankly, for the ukrainian military. they're calling on everyone to do their part. it's not clear how long they can defend themselves. >> kaitlan, what is the latest from the biden administration tonight about how the invasion is unfolding? and talk about, you know, the sanctions they've announced today. >> reporter: yeah, and they're monitoring what's happening right now very closely given, of course, it was about this time last night when these attacks kicked off in earnest, so they

are watching closely. you saw president biden impose those sanctions today, invading and attacking ukraine, but something president biden was pretty blunt about today during that press conference when he was taking questions is that these sanctions are going to take time to go into effect, and they were seen as a punishment for putin for what he did last night. but president biden ultimately hopes they weaken the kremlin and ultimately it won't prevent putin from doing what he wants to do here. i think one of the most chilling remarks president biden made during that press conference was saying putin is not just going after ukraine. yes, you heard the secretary of state say they believe they're going to try to overthrow the government there. you heard the president of ukraine saying they're targeting kyiv. but the president biden today saying he's going after restoring the entire soviet empire, not just ukraine. i think when they look at the sanctions they felt like they had to do it, but they don't ultimately think it was ever

going to stop putin from achieving this goal or deter him from doing this. >> ust and in terms of sanctions, they are drastic sanctions. they are not the complete options that had been discussed in the past, you know, personally going after vladimir putin's welt, stopping all u.s. dollar transactions in the international monetary system. why didn't they decide to use everything they could have? or does europe not want to go along with some of that? >> that is true for some of it. for others they were trying to maximize the punishment for russia but minimize the effects other countries would feel. because it's not just the united states as the president was saying today could see energy prices affected by the response to this. but italy and germany, this is top of mind for them. when it comes to s.w.i.f.t.,

that is something that has to be done in line with the european union. today he said it's still an option on the table, but he did not take that step today when he announced these sanctions, but they basically were trying to go after russia in the ways they could to maximize punishment on them while also trying to be careful about the effects that it would have on other nations. you should note -- i should note tonight there are some democrats on capitol hill including senator bob menendez who say they do believe that these are good, but they need to go a little bit further. >> what's the reaction you've been seeing in russia today? >> reporter: well, if you look at the overall picture you'd have to say that probably according to one poll i saw probably three quarters of the country support the president. however, there are people who do not, and they were on the streets of moskow, st. petersburg, and a lot of other cities. in fact, about 1,700 people last we saw had been detained by the

police, and about 50 cities across russia. they are obviously anti-war, but it is much more difficult now for people to go onto the streets. the authorities have made it very clear that if you do that especially for young people you can get a black mark in your record. they could make it very difficult to go onto school. and i did check that there is a little bit of polling about what people think about this conflict, and there is an independent polling agency the center that says 60% think that nato caused this, the u.s. and nato. and also the numbers of people who are feeling negative about ukraine have been going up quite significantly, about half, a little bit more of the population here in russia feels negatively towards ukraine. that never used to be the case before. >> clarissa, as we mentioned president zelenskyy is saying he

believes he's the number one target, his family the number two target. is it clear what he intends to do? >> well, anderson, we know the americans had been advising him to leave because i think the very real fear here as the russians close in on kyiv and tries to install some puppet regime his life appears to be and could be in very real danger. he said in that address jim referenced he is going to stay in the capital, and one can assume his family as well for now. but the question becomes at some point is that unsustainable? does he have to leave? one of the things he said in that address which really struck me, he said i called the leaders of 27 european countries today to ask them about allowing -- allowing ukraine to join nato, but all of them are too afraid at this stage to basically -- to take on that kind of risk. and you can imagine how frustrating it is for him in

this moment despite the support, despite the sanctions but to ultimately feel ukraine is basically alone in this on a military level. and as jim said outmanned, outgunned, outnumbered. i mean, it's an extraordinarily trying time for this country's leadership and of course for its people, anderson. >> and as you said for all the talk of sanctions, and that's a long-term thing, as you say he knows the country is on a military basis alone. jim sciutto, clarissa ward, kaitlan collins, thank you. we'll come back to you. ce s s ce cedric leighton joins us.

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breaking news this hour, secretary of state blinken says he's convinced russia will try to overthrow the ukrainian government. ukraine's president agreed tonight saying russian units are already in kyiv targeting him and his family and other noncom battants as well we could say. this is video of a military academy in a north eastern town. >> on social media the school put out a statement saying no students were there at the time. joining us now with a broader look retired air force colonel

cedric lathan. i wonder what the latest we know where russian troops are and where they may be headed. >> what we know so far is we know they're moving here to kharkiv. we've had a lot of reports from fred pleitgen on the russian side and sam kylie on the ukrainian side telling us what's going on there. what we're seeing is all these movements are occurring in a way that would possibly either encircle or be a direct hit on kharkiv. that's one area. the other area is from the south. this is where we've had naval activity, and that naval activity is actually quite important because what it can do is affect the port of odessa or some of the other ports that are here and here. those areas are going to be extremely important if the russians decide to take this area and move inland this way or if they come down this way from belarus. they've already done this, by the way. they've captured an airfield north of kyiv, and they've also

captured the chernobyl area, the old nuclear powerplant that had the radiation accident, the worst in history. so these areas are basically what is happening with the activity of the russians here. now, everybody had been focused on the donbas region. this is still an active theater. and what do we see here is movements directly this way of russian equipment into this area. mainly we're talking about self-propelled how . witzers, guns. so when you combine all of this you actually have a situation where you can bring in all the different pieces to bear. so we're talking aircraft. we're talking missiles. we're talking rockets that are fired at all these different areas. you see what parts of ukraine they're actually covering.

and it's a major area in that sense. >> just from a strategic standpoint obviously we don't know what's in the mind of vladimir putin or his generals at this point. but just from your military knowledge, does it make more sense to surround a city like kharkiv and kind of come back to it later if you're trying to establish control over the entire country? i mean, do you want to try to get troops on the ground in as many places as possible to lock it down and then move in on heavily populated cities, or do you do that all at once? >> it really depends on what your ultimate goal is. if your ultmal goal is we think it might be they take over kyiv, then to basically decapitate the ukrainian government, then it would make sense to bypass -- surround and bypass cities like kharkiv. go over and take the big objective first and then go back and take care of the rest, kind of a mopping up operation would

be what they would do in that case. so it really depends on the ultimate goal, but i think what they're going to be doing is they're going to go for kyiv, and they're going to do it in a way that would decapitate the government that exists there. that's at least going to be their attempt. >> and that's what president zelenskyy said he believes that russian sabotage groups have already entered the ukrainian capital. if that is vladimir putin's target what is stopping him from taking it essentially? do we know much about defenses? it seems like ukraine in general was always pushing back on the idea that this was an imminent invasion. i don't know if that meant that they were not preparing for an imminent invasion or that's something they were saying. but do we know about the defenses around ukraine or kharkiv? >> we know the defenses were not adequate to be frank about it. it doesn't mean they were completely ineffective, but they are certainly no match for the potential russian forces that can be a raid against them.

ukraine spent about a tenth of the budget of the russians on their defense in general. and when it came to things like air defense, the state of affair of the air defense system were so bad it couldn't be fixed in time when it came to the operations that are going on now. they took a look at this in december and concluded it couldn't be taken care of and modernized in a way that would have prevented the air superiority the russian air force now has over ukraine. >> i appreciate your time. thank you. we'll continue to monitor the latest developments. and we also want to take a look further ahead if it's possible to get a look what vladimir putin's next steps might be and what might affect his decision making. joining us now is david remnick, as well as author of the indispensable book. you heard president biden talk about this in his speech today, putin's desire to remake the

soviet union. do you think that is actually -- i mean it may be an ideological aim. do you think it's an actual realistic thing he thinks he can achieve? >> i think in a sense that biden seems to be talking about the re-creation of this old soviet union and all 15 what were republics and what are now independent nations is not only impossible but crazily expensive. an empire collapsed all over the region not only the soviet union but also the west, an empire is expensive. russia is not a wealthy country. its entire economy is the size of the economy of texas. and most of that those resources come right out of energy extractions and very fragile economy for a country that large. today we saw the ruble crater. we saw the russian stock market crater. we also saw something very

curious, and i have to say maybe even unexpected. despite the continuing crack down on dissent in russia that's been going on for years, we saw protests of modest scale in dozens of russian cities. and over -- according to one report over 1,500 arrests, brutal arrests and so on. so to see politics on the street is, i think, startling to vladimir putin as what he dreads the most, what he fears the most is some kind of uprising against him. and so we -- we're coming to a reckoning here where internal russian politics are concerned, too. >> so what is the significance of ukraine to putin? i mean, when he decides to take territory by force, why start with ukraine? >> well, a logical person whether on just sheer strategy

say nothing of moral logic would tell you that you're probably not going to seduce a country back into the fold by dropping missiles on it, by bombing it. history is full of examples of this kind of quote-unquote seduction through military means. and it -- and it fails. it's quite likely that if vladimir putin wants to, his armed forces can take kyiv, can arrest zelenskyy and install a puppet government. but then what? but then what? how long does that last? how expensive is that? what do russians think about this? as the information begins to come into to the country? so that's why i was so surprised and heartened to see not only the resilience of uykrainian people, which is so incredibly moving and the dignity of president zelenskyy's speech

compared today the madness and erratic behavior of vladimir putin, it was also really an interesting sign to see what was happening on the streets of so many russian cities today. i'm not saying there's a mass uprising across russia by any means, but i also remember 1968 when the soviet union invaded czechoslovakia. eight people went to red square and unfurled banners against that invasion. for less than a minute, and they were beaten by the kjb and arrested and sent to prison and all the rest. but that in many ways was the beginning of a dissident movement, a serious disdependent movement in the soviet union that had incredible repercussions. >> if putin is able to take over ukraine, and as you said what then? does he -- does the cost of holding the country -- there had been talk of the possibility of

a future insurgency if there's a russian occupying force. do you think that's realistic? obviously we've seen a lot of people just trying to flee the country when they can. now all males are being told they have to stay in ukraine. do you see -- how do you see it -- what does it look like under occupation? >> again, for me the lowest form of journalism is prediction. i'm not a gambling man, but the potential is there for something very bloody, very prolonged, strg extremely expensive and blood and treasure. we've seen it ourselves, americans, in other instances. we've seen it in the middle east. wave seen it in south asia. i don't -- the question here that has to be at the center is what does vladimir putin think he's doing? toward what end? how in any way does this help

bring prosperity or even security to russia? what threat is he responding to? was ukraine threatening russia? was nato threatening russia? no. i think that putin in large mea measure -- not to make this into a novel -- but in large measure is responding to his own self-drama as a man of great power and wanting to expand russian power, revive russian power after his failure to bring prosperity to russia after 22 years in power. >> dave, always good to talk to you. thank you. >> my pleasure. coming up, a shelter like one we really haven't seen since the london blitz of world war ii inside the tunnels keeping residents of one ukrainian city safe.

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cnn's clarissa ward in kharkiv and as she mentioned earlier met some of the residents taking shelter. >> reporter: kharkiv residents scrambled to find shelter as russia's brutal assault unfolds. deep underground scenes reminiscent of the second world war, the shock just sinking in that what was unimaginable is now reality as 36-year-old daria tells us. >> 5:00 a.m. we find out the world is no longer the safe place you imagine. we are not same as russia and we don't want to be a part of russia or any other country. i cannot believe it's happening really. >> reporter: yesterday this was just an ordinary metro station full of people going to and from

work. today it has become a de facto bomb shelter, and there are just hundreds and hundreds of people who have descended on this place fearful for their lives and uncertain of what the future will bring. and the thing you hear over and over again from people is where can we go? where is it safe now to go in ukraine? and i want to be clear about something. this is not a front line city in ukraine's near war with russia. this is thriving metropolis of 1.4 million people who have never experienced anything like this in their entire lives, and now they're being forced to literally camp out with their families, their pets, their loved ones. they grabbed whatever they could from their homes, and they brought it here. and they don't know what's next for them. they don't know what the new ukraine will look like and what place they will have in it.

many we approach are too over come to speak. look at the situation around you, this woman says. i'm so sorry, it's a terrible, terrible situation. there's no doubt here for who is responsible for this conflict, but few can understand why. so it's interesting. i just asked them what do they think of president putin. do they think he's crazy. they say he's not crazy, he's sick. he's sick. we just want to live peacefully. >> i just hope that some people in russia -- >> reporter: a simple plea for mercy that has so far fallen on deaf ears. >> clarissa is in once again kharkiv for us tonight.

so are people still in subway stations in these overnight hours? >> reporter: there are actually people who are sleeping in those subway stations, anderson. and it's incredible when you think, you know, we didn't see any bathrooms. there was no food being handed out. people had just whatever snacks that they could bring along with them. there were a lot of children and animals as you saw there, so you can just imagine how desperately frightened people would be to actually be spending the night in that kind of a situation. although arguably less frightening than being in their homes in this sort of precarious time. and one other thing i would just mention, you know, we talk to a lot of people about fear, and that was certainly the predominant feeling, but there was also a lot of anger. and i think you saw it a little bit there with those women who said president putin was sick. we interviewed another young man named vladimir, and he said russia is supposed to be our brother, but who on earth would treat a brother like this?

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the russian advance continues. as we reported secretary of state blinken says he's convinced vladimir putin is continuing to overthrow ukraine's government and that the threat to directly sanction putin himself is, quote, on the

table. i'm joined by steph molten, veteran and member of the house armed services committee who was in ukraine in december and briefed by other lawmakers just this evening about those sanctions. congressman moulton, do these sanctions go far enough? >> no, they're important and strong first step. and i'm very pleased with what the administration has done thus far, but we need to go further. when i came back from ukraine in december the analogy i used was putin needs to have soda from a vending machine and we're not there yet. we haven't targeted a widespread number of oligarchs. there's clearly more we can do, and i think the administration is working on that. >> when you say more you could do are you talking about sanctioning vladimir putin directly personally, going after his ill-gotten gains? do you mean with the s.w.i.f.t. protocols, stopping russia from

being able to bank with that? >> absolutely putin should be sanctioned directly. he's shoally responsible for the largest war in europe since world war ii. so absolutely we should go after him directly. now, a lot has been said about the fact we haven't targeted the s.w.i.f.t. system. obviously we don't have all our allies onboard. i think that's overplayed a little bit because in today's tech enabled world putin and his allies can figure out ways around s.w.i.f. t. these are exactly the kind of negotiations the administration is having right now with our allies. when i was at the security conference with national security leaders around the globe, i was extremely impressed how tightly our nato allies are all working together. yes, we have details to work out, but everyone is united on sanctioning the people responsible for this. and when you say the people

responsible, it's vladimir putin. let's be clear. >> you used the analogy of vladimir putin having trouble getting a soda out of a vending machine. does that reference the idea some have raised of cyber attacks by the u.s. or allies against russia itself? >> well, that's certainly a capability that we have. and i have personally encouraged the administration to be willing to use it. the challenge with our cyber capabilities is every time you use one of those tools, you essentially give it away. you explain -- whether you like it or not, you show the russians how it works and then it's hard to use it again. so that's why we've been very careful to use these type of cyber tools in the past. but, look, my view is if you're not using it now what are you waiting for? this is the most significant threat to national security the world over that we've seen in decades, and we need to be aggressive at confronting it. >> you sit on the house armed services committee. is there anything you think

congress can do here, should do here? >> well, obviously it would have been helpful -- it would have been a helpful gesture at least if we'd come together in a bipartisan way before the invasion and pass the sanctions bill. it's not essential because most of these sanctions are put in place by the administration. and i know most democrats and republicans aside from a fringe group of far right extremists are aligned behind the united states, behind nato in confronting putin. it's only trump and a few of his allies who are supporting putin in this action. but there's still more we can do. and it means something to the international community for democrats and republicans to clearly come together to actually vote for sanctions through the house and the senate. so i would like to see that in the future. and i'm prepared to go to washington tomorrow if leadership says we're ready to do that. >> congressman seth moulton, appreciate your time. thank you. up next cnn continues our coverage on the ground in ukraine where one of our

correspondents had a close encounter with russian troops today. >> should we go that way?

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conflicts across the country. president zelenskyy says at least 137 soldiers have been killed and another 360 injured since the invasion began. our matthew chance is on the ground in the kyiv region, where he was caught in the middle of a fire fight with russian troops earlier today. [ sound of gunfire ] >> inside, inside. >> in here. >> against the wall. [ sound of gunfire ] >> focus. go that way. >> let's move down this way against the wall. >> it's okay, it's okay.

>> joining us now in kyiv, cnn senior internal correspondent matthew chance. can you just explain where you were, what was going on there? >> yeah, it was a very unexpected and really quite astonishing encounter because what it was is we were headed out to an air base that we were told there had been clashes between russia forces and ukrainian forces, russian forces flew in there to seize the air head so they could bring in more supplies or more troops. but we were told my ukrainian officials that the airstrip had been taken back by ukrainian forces. so, we got to the gates of the place, the check point. i went up to the soldiers and they said, no, you can't stay here. i in my broken russian successfully argued to stay. before i did that, before i went live, i said, look, who's in control of this right now? is it the russians in control or

the ukrainians. he said, it's the russians. i said, where are the russians then, if that's the case. they didn't understand. they said, we're the russians. it was an incredible moment where we suddenly understood where the troops we thought, because we hadn't considered the alternative that the ukrainian were the russian special forces. >> so, the ones with the white bands on their arms, those are actually russians. >> all those troops you saw in that video there were russian. you know, they -- there were no ukrainian troops around there. he was like -- [ speaking foreign language ] -- i am russian, he was saying to me. they had these orange and black arm bands on, very common in the russian -- it's a symbol of the russian military. so, that was astonishing they were so close to kyiv. they were about 15 miles away. and it's key installations around kyiv as well. you get this idea that the city is being surrounded in

preparation for something much bigger. you really got a sense of what is what's happening now. >> and zelenskyy we believe -- is he still in kyiv? is he staying? he said there's always saab tors in kyiv. >> yeah, he did say that. he said that in in a public address that he's put out on social media an hour or so ago. he may have been talking about those sabotage groups. he may have been talking about the russian special forces. the certain now has been expressed is that the plan, for russia, may be to come in and not just encircle kyiv but to come in and decapitate the leadership and to replace the government here with a pro-moscow administration. zelenskyy mentioned in this tweet, according to our information, the enemy, the russians, have marked me as target number one. they've marked my family as target number two. they want to destroy ukraine politically by destroying the head of state. and so, you know, the president

of this country and the top leadership are absolutely, you know, i don't want to say freaking out. but they are absolutely concerned as much as you can be concerned in bunkers at the moment somewhere in this city. and elsewhere i expect. sort of waiting for the possibility that they are going to be encircled, rounded up, and what? toppled. >> matthew chance in kyiv, be careful, you and your team. thank you so much for being there. we'll be right back. (children giggling) hey, i was, uh, thinking about

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i'll be back three hours from now live at midnight for a special edition of "360" in the overnight hours. let's hand it over to wolf blitzer and cnn tonight. wolf? >> anderson, thank you very much. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer, and this is "cnn tonight." we're watching history unfold before our eyes, the largest invasion in europe since world war ii is now around 24 hours in. president zelenskyy says at least 137 ukrainian soldiers already have been killed so far, anothe