this is cnn breaking news. >> hello, everyone. i am michael holmes coming to you live from lviv in ukraine, with the breaking news. i will tell you, from the outset, we have lost power here in our position in lviv. and, hence, i am probably a little dark. but we shall carry on. missile strikes, explosions in ukraine's capital, kyiv, as the russian invasion is now in its second day. the ukraine -- ukraine acknowledges one of its own fighter jets have been shot down over kyiv but claims it has inflicted over 800 casualties on russia -- for russia forces since the invasion started. other images show an apartment block on fire in kyiv. the mayor says three people were wounded, when a rocket hit the building. russian forces are moving deeper

into ukraine, and appear to have their sights set on the capital. ukraine and the u.s. says the russian plans to encircle the city, and go after the dpofrmt. defense ministry says ukrainian troops have blown up a key bridge north of kyiv to try to stop the russian advance. russian forces have been founding airfields and military bases all across country. british intelligence reports at leastle 80 strikes since the fighting began. a u.s. source says that he have launched more than 160 missless. ukraine's president reports at least 137 soldiers have been killed since the invasion began, and his n his late social-media address, he urged ukraine's allies to do more. >> translator: this morning, we are defending our country alone, just like yesterday. the most powerful country in the world looked on from a distance. russia was hit with sanctions yesterday but these are not enough to get these foreign troops off our soil. only through solidarity and

determination, can this be achieved. >> russian forces are said to have taken control of the chernobyl power plant, of the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster. staff members are being held hostage. meanwhile, president joe biden has unveiled sweeping new sanctions on russia although he admits it will take some time before moscow feels the effects, he also says he is still considering direct sanctions on vladimir put upon. putin. >> putin is the aggressor. putin chose this war. and now, he and his country will bear the consequences. just letting you know, we lost michael holmes's feed there, i am kim brunhuber and we will try to go back to michael if we can get his power up. and cnn has correspondents positioned across ukraine and around the world to bring you the late ent on this breaking news. clarissa ward is in the eastern ukraine city of kharkiv and we will get anna stewart in london.

cnn senior international correspondent, jim bitterman, is live in paris with international reaction. but first, let's go to white house reporter kevin hiptak in washington. so, kevin, as the russians advance on the capital with all that could entail, what is the white house saying about the situation? >> yeah, the white house and the biden administration, at large, are are watching that situation very chosely this evening. we should say, earlier tonight, some u.s. lawmakers did receive a briefing from top-level administration officials, and one of the key pieces of information that they were told in that briefing was that russian forces coming from belarus were about 20 miles outside the ukrainian capital kyiv. that was about seven hours ago. so of course, those forces may have advanced since then. these lawmakers were told that the forces were on the east, south, and north of kyiv. and obviously, this was all a very troubling information.

one of the other things that you are starting to hear from senior officials here in washington this evening, is sort of this growing sense, um, that they are convinced that one of putin's aims in all of this is to take out the government of ukraine. the zelenskyy' government, clearly, under threat tonight according to biden-administration officials. we should say that the white house has discussed with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy contingency plans, should his safety come under threat. it is not clear, necessarily, how engaged or how willing he has been to consider those plans. the white house said today that they are providing him a broad range of support. but of course, a decline to get into any sort of specifics on the security arrangements. of course, we did hear president biden, earlier today, lay out those sanctions. really withering sanctions on moscow for what it is doing in ukraine over the past several days. but one of the most chilling things that i think you heard the president say those remarks earlier today from the east was

that he believed that putin wouldn't stop necessarily at ukraine, that his goal was really reexecconstituteing the entire soviet union and lot of chilling thoughts and chilling words coming out outof washington tonight. >> thanks so much, kevin liptak in washington. let's cross to gym bitterman in paris with the latest international reaction. jim? >> kim, in fact, the european union met until the we hours this morning. and now, the news conference afterward to talk about the kind of things they are proposing to do, the kind of sanctions they are proposing to take. ursula von der leyen -- the european commission president -- said that russia will, quote -- we will hold the kremlin accountable and then, it outlined some of the sanctions they are talking about. although, many were saying this morning that the sanctions did not go far enough. president macron at that news conference last night revealed that, in fact, he had put in a phone call to president putin of moscow, and as the attack was

taking place, as the invasion was taking place, and basically told him that -- that all -- all the military activities had to cease immediately. he said, of course, obvious hi, that did not go anywhere. but he did explain why he made that phone call -- the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. >> translator: i think it is my responsibility, first of all, to take such initiatives when they are requested by ukraine. and then, while condemning, while sanctioning, while continuing to decide and act. to leave this path open, so that the day when the conditions can be met, we can obtain the secession of hostilities for the ukrainian people. >> president macron said, in fact, that he felt that putin had been totally duplicitous because he had tried desperately to negotiate something before hostilities began, and he said, yes, there was duplicity.

yes, there was a deliberate, conscious choice by president putin to launch the war when we could still negotiate peace. kim? all right. thanks so much, jim bitterman in paris. and now, we want to go back to michael holmes in lviv. michael? >> yeah. thanks so much, kim, for picking it up. power went out here. it was nothing invasion related. it has been sorted out. let's go on, now. residents in kharkiv in ukraine -- they have turned to subway station into a makeshift-bomb shelter. cnn chief international correspondent clarissa ward was there, and spoke with frightened but determined ukrainians seeking safety. >> reporter: kharkiv residents scramble to find shelter as russia's brutal assault unfolds. deep underground, scenes reminiscent of the second world war and the shock just sinking in that what was unimaginable is now reality. as 36-year-old daria tells us --

>> it's like you wake up at 5:00 a.m. and you find out that the world is no longer the safe place you imagined. we are independent country -- ukraine -- and we are not same as russians and we don't want to be a part of russia or any other countries. 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 b who have descended on this place, fearful for their hives and uncertain what the future will bring. and the thing i hear over and 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 frontline city in ukraine's

eight-year war with russia. this is a thriving met ropolis f 1.4 million people, who have never experienced anything like this in their entire lives and now they are 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 is next for them. they don't know what the new ukraine will hook like, and what place they will have in it. many we approach are too overcome to speak. >> i am asking if they are afraid. they are very nervous. look at the situation around you, this woman says. >> reporter: i am so sorry, it is a terrible, terrible situation. there is no doubt here about who is responsible for this conflict. but few can understand why.

so it's interesting, i just asked them what do think think of president putin? do they think he is crazy? they said he is not crazy, he's sick. he's sick. we just want to live peacefully. a simple plea for mercy that has, so far, fallen on deaf ears. >> all right. joining me now from canberra in australia, he is the director of the international security program at the laurie institute and thanks so much for being with us. you -- tapping into your expertise, what do you see on the battlefield in terms of what might likely be next employed by the russians going on i guess the softening up is underway still or largely done.

what, tactically, do you expect to see? >> well, thanks, michael. i think the first thing i'd say is that myself and everyone who is following the news and the social media feeds on this should treat all the incoming information with a lot of caution. uh, it's -- it's difficult to know what's real and what's -- or whether the picture you see with a russian tank, whether that comes from this conflict or -- or some previous -- um -- conflict. what i would expect to see, though, is that i know the pentagon just recently released some information that russia used around 160 ballistic and cruise missiles on the opening-couple of days of this conflict. and what i would expect now is with ukrainian command and control having been targeted, and ukrainian air defenses having been targeted by those missiles, that we would see more manned aircraft being used.

so the russians have a reasonably large inventory of attack aircraft -- some hold, some new. and they will employ those now that less risk from ukrainian air defenses and ukrainian command and control to organize a defense. the -- the really bad news, i think, for ukrainians out of that is that -- is that we know from the russian practice in syria that they don't use a lot of precision-guided weapons on their strike aircraft. they use -- they don't have huge stocks of those weapons, so they use more bombs and that is going to mean civilian casualties. >> and we all know what happened and the devastation caused to that city and to that point, russian forces apparently coming up on kyiv at the moment. can you see tanks rolling into kyiv with the carnage that that

might lead to? or do you think it is possible they might stay on the outside, cut the water, cut the power, lay siege? >> yeah. look, i'm -- i'm really reluctant to speculate. i mean, the -- the situation is so opaque, at the moment, it is so difficult to know exactly what's going on. we read reports -- as -- as we just heard of russian tanks some 20-to-30 miles outside of kyiv. we also from the american authorities ukrainian dechss have been quite effective and the russians haven't met the goals they probably set themselves for the early phase of this conflict. i am really reluctant to speculate about what might happen. >> what -- what would an incursion into a city the size of kyiv look like. if -- if it buzz troops on the ground, tanks in the streets. i -- i conditioan't imagine wha would look like. >> well, we certainly know that

warfare is extremely messy and dangerous. so, you know, from -- from recent evidence throughout the middle east, as well as in eastern europe. so, yeah. that is an extremely dangerous scenario. >> all right. i want to ask you this, too. i mean, you -- you study the forces. i mean, given the imbalance between the two militaries, um, what sort of fight are you seeing from the ukrainians? and what do you expect going forward? i mean, can you see an insurgency evolving from this? >> what we know from the balance of forces is that the russians have a real advantage of airpower. so the ukrainians have a relat relatively large land force, particularly over the last seven or eight years, it still suffers from lack of funding because

ukraine is not a wealthy uni-ccountry but advertise t has been modernized, its command and control have been updated but where they really suffer is in airpower, and where the russians have a distinct advantage is -- is in airpower. so i only expect the russians to really use the -- the advantages they have. they have also in long-range artillery and rocket artillery. so, none of those things suggest that the next phase of this war are going to be very easy. um, they are going to be -- you know, there is going -- there is a possibility of very heavy bombardment from russian land forces and also from the air. >> and -- and quickly and finally, i mean putin has obviously been undeterred by the sanctions imposed and the sanctions threatened. what is the backup for the -- for the west? has this sort of exposed the limitations of the west in many ways, if he is prepared to just

deal with the sanctions? >> well i think that shouldn't surprise us. and in fact, even during the cold war when the soviet union at the time suppressed dissent in hungary, in czechoslovakia in 1968, the west didn't come, nato didn't come to the aid of those two countries when the soviets put down legal ocal reform move. traditionally, big powers have always had a sphere of influence, and russia is trying to reestablish its sphere of influence around its periphery. the united states has had a sphere of influence in the americas really, since the early-19th century. so, this is pretty typical behavior for great powers. and it's -- it does show the limitations of american power but that shouldn't surprise us. and in fact, in a way -- i mean i don't mean to belittle what is going on here. this is absolutely a tragedy for

the ukrainian people but we shouldn't wish it were otherwise because if american and russian forces come into direct conflict, then we have got two nuclear powers clashing. and, you know, the -- the consequences of something like that are really too dire to contemplate. >> yeah. sam roggeveen in canberra, really appreciate your nam nal sis. thanks so much. >> thank you, michael. still to come on "cnn newsroom." how people around the world are making their outrage heard over this invasion of ukraine. we'll be right back.

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welcome back, everyone. i can michael holmes in lviv, ukraine. and we want to bring you reaction interest ukraine sit incidence. we have been talking with residents here in lviv to get their thoughts on the russian invasion. here is a brief sample. >> most of the time, i am just trying to understand that, yes, something bad is happening but there is no need to panic. we just need to take some action, some precautions, and try to keep alert and mindful and stay kind of clear minded because there is no -- no point in panicking. it will only make it bworse. >> i feel angry. i don't -- i don't feel helpless but i feel angry, and i feel like we need an international support. a strong support. today, my president -- president zelenskyy -- said that he encourages other countries to join an anti-kremlin, anti-russian coalition and i also would like to support this call, and to call to the world -- to the free world -- to join ukraine, and to help us to -- um -- to -- um -- throw away putin from ukraine, from

all ukrainian territories, including the occupied ones. >> now, president vladimir putin, of course, enjoys overwhelming support at home in russia. however, not everyone in russia onboard with this incursion. according to independent media, and local monitoring groups, more than 1,700 people are are being detained in antiwar protests around the country, and some in russia are shocked by recent events. >> cannot express how much pain we feel now. it hurts because we're our friends, our relatives. >> i am just scared, shocked, and i don't [ inaudible ]. >> and the protests don't stop with russia as cnn's lynda kinkade report, the invasion has prompted demonstrations all over the world.

>> reporter: hundreds of protestors gathered outside the russian embassy in london. they hold ukrainian flags and signs expressing their anger, shouting for russian president, vladimir putin, to stop the attack on ukraine. a rally organizer made a direct appeal to world leaders to do something about the situation. >> for all these eight years, we were trying to say putin is not going to stop where he was. he is going to go further. the world needs to wake up, and they need to understand no means no. they have to stop him. he can't do this anymore. >> reporter: in beirut, protestors sing ukraine's national anthem outside the russian embassy there, standing in solidarity with ukraine, one woman of ukrainian descent says she is fearful of what might come next. >> we just -- we do not want world war iii to happen all over, again. we just want peace, so leave us be. and, putin, take your people and just go back to where you belong.

>> reporter: at the brandenburg gate, some hold signs comparing vladimir putin to hitler. a stark reminder of the country's dark past. some say world leaders haven't done enough to stop president putin. one protestor says he is fearful for his loved ones, still, in the country. >> translator: i can't believe it's happening. my entire family in ukraine is now in danger. and for me, as the only one who had lived in germany for a relatively long time, i cannot understand, to this day, why germany has done so little against this. >> reporter: in central tokyo, dozens of people gather in the city busiest shopping district, many surprised by russia's actions. >> of course, we are all scared because, um, we were not expecting their attacking whole ukraine this morning. so, of course, i feel awful about this.

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anti-missile systems shooting a russian rocket out of the sky. we are also hearing troops blew up a bridge north of the capital to prevent a russian column of troops from advancing. across country, many ukrainians are, inevitably and understandably, terrified. some families, crowding into subway stations and bomb shelters with young children. trying to explain to them what's happening. and make some sense of how the world has been turned upside down for them. eu leaders have been condemning the barbaric invasion, as they put it, and just announced harshest-ever sanctions. >> putin is trying to subjugate a friendly european country, and he is trying to redraw the maps of europe by force. he must, and he will fail. >> now, little while ago,

ukraine's president said allies are not doing enough, and quote we are defending our country alone. minutes ago, ukraine's military announced that it is resisting the russian' advance north of the capital, kyiv. i want to bring in cnn's katie bo lillis, live from the pentagon, and, katie, what are officials at the pentagon watching tonight? >> yeah, michael. really, growing concern in washington here in the pentagon. and -- and -- and across the -- across the capital that the fate of the ukrainian capital, kyiv, hangs in the balance really in the coming hours and coming days. senior officials -- senior biden administration officials briefed key members of capitol hill just in the last -- just this evening, telling them the disturb nugs that the russian forces that had entered into ukraine from the north, from belarus were now just 20 kilometers from kyiv from the nation's capital. of course, we understand russian forces still holding an airport near kyiv as well that could be used to air drop paratroopers, special operations forces that

could -- that could gain access to kyiv. secretary of state antony blinken saying publicly today that the u.s. believes that putin's intention is to encircle the city. certainly, intelligence and defense officials at this point believe pretty firmly that putin's intention is to try to topple the zelenskyy government in kyiv and we understand, from previous reporting, presumably, replace it with some kind of pro-russia, russia-friendly proxy -- proxy government. so really, tonight, all eyes on kyiv and on the ukrainian forces fighting to defend the -- the capital and the country at large. intelligence and defense offi officials have been frank from the beginning, though, they are outgunned, outmanned, and the expect is they will not ultimate hi be able to repel the invasion but hopefully extract some cost from russia in doing so. i think one of the big unanswered questions at this point is what happens if russia is successful if it is able to topple kyiv, if it is able to install some kind of

russia-friendly proxy government, i think the big question then for officials here is does russia seek to maintain military forces in ukraine? does it seek to sort of occupy the country over the long-term? so that is one of the big, i think, unanswered questions going forward, michael. >> indeed. one of them. yeah. katie, at the pentagon, appreciate it. thanks so much. now, alexander is a senior fellow at the carnegie moscow center. he is with us from the russian capital, and thanks so much for -- for doing that. now, the u.s. and europe -- everyone really -- saw this coming for months, and couldn't stop it. putin knew that the u.s. and nato wouldn't step in. he judged he could handle the sanctions. what did the west do wrong? and what could the west do now to preserve ukraine's independence if that's even possible? >> well, the list of mutual grievances, missteps,

misreadings goes back to probably collapse of the soviet union and it's just very difficult to figure out what the exact moment was. was it the 2014 nato expansion? and then, both sides has obviously done a lot to -- that leads to this crisis because it takes two to tango. unfortunately, we are past the moment where stop waping war is possible. it looks like the russian forces and vladimir putin are determined to reach their military objectives. and it is not a fair fight. ukraine definitely is outmanned and outgunned and since the west will not commit its troops, and will not commit any fighting capabilities, the military part of this drama is unfortunately very likely to end soon and that is tragic on all counts. >> it is, indeed. i want to ask you about when it comes to those sanctions, and

those close to putin. we are talking about the oligarchs and others. i mean, can they be effectively sanctioned? i mean, many are already sanctioned or they perhaps sanction-proofed their lives and money. can they be hurt in any substantive way? >> the people who are very part of the decision-making, of the chain of command, are hurt but they have been sanctioned before for 2014 annexation of crimea, russia's role in donbas war before the recent escalation. so, they know that they going to -- and actually further sanctions are only increasing the grip on the economy and on the decision-making in the country. other oligarchs who are not part of putin's circle -- and this is a vast cohort -- are probably terrified but they are not really important. they cannot influence putin's decision and the regime stands very unified, so there are no visible cracks in the regime

that will probably make mr. putin change course. >> hmm. and to that point, you know, when you talk about the people close to him. i mean, how -- how many people have putin's ear, can actually talk to him, influence him? or is that not how it works? he is doing this alone and nobody can say no? >> we don't -- we don't know. it is really a black box. any analyst claim es has insights in the crystal ball i think is wrong. but the recent meeting of the russian security council on monday is pretty instructive. where putin has collected, like, 20 or 30 top officials in the country, including chairman and chairwoman of the senate and the lower house. and everybody was taken hostage and everybody had to approve the initial decision to recognize donetsk and lieuuhansk as

independent states. and like, we should continue negotiations with both ukraine and the west. and toward the end, he made a u-turn and said, well, actual recognition -- if that's what you want, mr. putin -- is a great idea. so, it doesn't look like there are people who have influence and who could say no to mr. putin's design. >> great analysis as always. check in with you again, alexander. alexander there in moscow. really appreciate it. as always. and my colleague, kim brunhuber will pick up our coverage from atlanta when we come back, including the new economic pain russia will face for its invasion of ukraine. stay with us.

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i am kim brunhuber live in atlanta. as the kremlin unleashes its military might on ukraine, russia is coming under a barrage of international economic sanctions. on thursday, the eu slapped a new round of punitive measures on moscow. european commission president ursula von der leyen said they will have a, quote, maximum impact on russia's economy and political elite. president joe biden announced a new package of u.s. sanctions. they will go after russia's top banks, state-owned businesses, oligarchs and the military. and the amount of the strongest sanctions ever impose on any economy the size much russia's, moscow is facing even more economic punishment as japan, australia, and taiwan announce new sanctions, as well. for more on all that, anna stewart joins us from london. anna, so let's go through the sanctions. what do they cover and how are they reverberating through the markets? >> yes, kim, compared to the first round of sachlkdss, this is much, much broader. it will inflilkt a lot manufacturer rain. and looking at what is being

targeted here. banks, financial institutions in russia. the much bigger institutions which were missing from that initial list. so really, essentially, cutting off the major russian banks from financial markets across europe and in the u.s. freezing assets for many of them, and btb, which is russia's second largest bank, is facing full sanctions from the u.s. and the uk. we have just had the eu sanctions' list overnight. lacking some detail. we should get more of that hopefully later today. other companies also being targeted now for sanctions within russia, particularly those i think, in the defense sector. so, russian companies which make tanks, ships, missiles, aircraft, that sort of thing. individuals. the oligarchs. those within putin's inner circle. those sanctions have been expanded considerably. so, many more people on that list, many of their families, as well. essentially, making it really hard for them to live their second lives in europe and the u.s. so, freezing assets, implementing travel bans, and so on. so that could put some pressure on putin domestically.

and then we have i think some of the most interesting sanctions/measures yet. that is export restrictions and this is long touted by the u.s. and europe and the uk but now we are seeing where they are hitting, and it is really targeting tech. tech that is critical to all sorts of different russian sectors. um, and this has really far-reaching consequences. for instance, taiwan who are implementing sanctions -- haven't got details on them yet but their biggest chipmaker, which is actually the biggest chipmaker in the world will no longer be able to sell semiconductors to russia because they use u.s. technology and so the u.s. export ban impacts them as well, so you can see how far-ranging that will be and how it will make life incredibly difficult, even for ordinary russians. not only does it target some of those kind of critical sectors when you are looking at conflict like defense, but also your average russian is going to be increasingly hard for them to make certain products. also, importing has got considerably more expensive. the ruble has lost some 15% of

its value against the dollar since the start of the year. there were wide moves on the markets yesterday. so, this -- this reaction that we have seen in terms of the markets reacting to sanctions, expecting sanctions, impacting people across russia. this will hurt. but there are some things missing. oil, gas, and wheat. >> yeah. and then, one of the other things missing -- uh, which they didn't do for now was excluding russia from the swift systems, which allow transactions between thousands of financial institutions around the world. many countries, including ukraine, itself, wanted russia kicked off the platform. but they didn't take this step. why not? >> when we look at the sort of spectrum of sanctions, this was always on the char end, the most extreme. the one that could really inflict major damage to russia. could have seen their economy shrink by 5%. but there was huge division and you know what? u.s. president joe biden spoke about it. take a listen. >> it is always an option but right now that is not the position that the rest of europe

wishes to take. >> and the divisions really were, particularly, within the eu. within europe. so, senior-eu sources told us on the one side, you had poland, latvia, estonia, all supporting disconnecting russia from swift. making it incredibly difficult to do any kind of financial transaction with any country across the world. germany, italy, hungary, and cypress were gens it we are told. now, these are countries with much stronger economic ties with russia and you got to remember, a country like germany is already facing major fallout in terms of energy, its decision on nord stream 2, to halt the certification process. it is hugely reliant on russia for around a third of all its energy needs. so you can see why there was division here. there has been, actually, frankly, behind the scenes for weeks now. and this was discussed with the annexation of crimea. it didn't happen then. the sounds we are getting from all sorts of leaders even in the uk, uk prime minister boris johnson said nothing is off the

table, referring to swift but if they don't imp hemt this sort of measure now, when you see a full-scale invasion, when? because at this stage, sanctions aren't really a deterrent. they are to cause economic pain. >> well said, anna stewart, thank you so much. after the break, we will head back to michael holmes in lviv, and twe will tell you abot u.n. concerns over the humanitarian situation in ukraine as some flee ahead of russia's onslaught. stay with us. ♪ (delivery man) that's for you. (mail recipient 2) it's opened. (delivery man) yup, i got another one here that's just the same. (mail recipient 4) why? (delivery man) sms, unencrypted textsts, they're just like these. they're open.. (mail recipient 5) what are you talking a about? (delivery man) like if this wasas an unencryptd text... i just read it. (mail recipient 6) just like this. (delivery man) every text you send is just as open as your letters! including pictures! your texts are open!

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where some people are fleeing for safety during the russian invasion. seen crossing into poland all day on thursday. many on foot. with whatever they could carry. polish officials are preparing a m medical train to transport arrivals and hospitals are ready to receive thousands of patients. the united nations seds up to 5 million people could be displaced in this conflict. the un high commissioner for refugees says he's worried about what's happening on the ground. >> we're gravely concerned about the fast deteriorating situation and ongoing military action. in ukraine. the humanitarian consequences on civilian populations will be devastating. there are no winners in war. but countless lives will be torn apart.

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hello, everyone. welcome to cnn. i'm michael holmes live from ukraine. with our breaking news. russian forces moving deeper into ukraine. and appear to have their sights on the capitol kyiv. with heavy explosions from crews or ballistic missiles reported