this is cnn breaking news. >> hello and welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world. i'm michael holmes coming to you live from lviv in western ukraine. ukraine's take up arms and fight invading russian forces. volodymyr zelenskyy put out the call saying anyone from around the world is welcome to come and fight side by side with ukrainians against what he

called russian war criminals. it comes as street fighting has broken out in ukraine's second largest city, kharkiv. it sits 20 miles from the border. city officials say russian troops have now entered the city and residents are being urged to stay in shelters and avoid travel. meanwhile. russia's military russia also claims is claiming advances in two regions. for now though the prime ministr

the kremlin says a russian delegation has already arrived in belarus to begin possible negotiations. but mr. zelenskyy previously said any talks between russia and ukraine should be held in a neutral location, belarus a launching pad for some of the invading troops. cnn has correspondents positioned across ukraine and around the world to bring you the latest on this breaking news. we've got jasmine wright in washington with the latest on sanctions on russia. arwa damon is on the other sift border from me in poland. matthew chance and which are ris sa ward are in kyiv in ukraine. fred pleitgen is live in russia. fred, dramatic scenes you reported on yesterday with russian armor going over the border. tell us what's going on today. >> reporter: similar scenes are going on today. the first thing we saw as we arrived here about half an hour

ago, there was russian rocket artillery fire being shot off. at the same time, the russians are saying that they have now entered that town of hearken. there seems to be pretty heavy street fighting going on. whether or not that's going to mean more casualties for the russians or whether or not they're taking more casualties, really impossible for us to say. the only little sign that we might have seen, if you look over my shoulder, you can see that the russians have parked three ambulances at that final checkpoint where it then goes toward ukrainian territory and also towards that the front line in hearken. the entire time we've been there, those ambulances have been stationary. we have to say there weren't that amount of ambulances parked here in the past couple of days as we've been reporting here. again, very difficult to say whether or not that's some sort of telltale sign of anything. if we manage to pan up, one of the things that we have been able to see is this helicopter flying over us the entire morning. not just whether or not that's some sort of command and control helicopter. that's also something that we have not seen in the past couple

of days. that's been hovering here for the past half hour or so, maybe flying across the region of the front line. maybe inspecting their own troops to see which positions they are in. at the same time, michael, we can still see russian forces sort of going in and out of that area towards ukraine, towards that frontline area. obviously bringing reinforcements. it looks as though the russians are rotating troops in. you can see a carrier here. that's the kind of truck that they would put the tanks on the back of to then either bring it to the front line or bring it away for maintenance. you can see there is a lot of motion going on, firing going on here this morning, as the russians have said that they have entered that key town of kharkiv, which was one of the first strategic objectives that they had been saying they've had since this campaign began. >> fred, you've seen a lot of hardware going in as you've been reporting. some people are saying if the russians are not getting as far

ahead as they thought they might have, that they could have supply problems. are you seeing evidence of resupply going on for those units now forward in the field? >> yeah, we are. it's interesting you ask that question. that is something that we saw a lot of yesterday. we saw a lot more fuel trucks than in the past days before. we saw more fuel trucks going towards that area as well. the other thing we're seeing around this area, it will be difficult to tell whether or not that's sign of any issues or whether or not the russians are having problems with their gear, or whether or not that's the normal attrition you might have in an offensive like that wide receiver we see a lot of brokendown russian military vehicles either being towed or repaired at the side of the road. we're on the russian side of the border. if stuff is breaking down here, it could obviously be that they might be having some problems with their gear. from our van tank point, it's very difficult to tell whether that's the usual attrition, that military gear, if it's used in these kind of environments, or

if this might be a tell-tale sign that maybe there's some sort of problems with the equipment that the russians have, at least some of the equipment that they have. one of the things we saw a lot of yesterday, it's interesting you pose that question, we saw a lot more fuel trucks going toward the kharkiv area than we had in the days before. >> fascinating observations. it's good to have you in place there in russia. we'll check in with you as the day goes on. u.s. officials say the ukrainian resistance is putting up a stronger fight than russia expected. breaking it down, the russian military still, of course, vastly outnumbers the ukrainian forces. have a look at the sides of each of these countries' armed forces. overall, ukraine has nearly 1.2 million service members in both active and reserve duty. compare that with russia's more than 2.7 million active and

reserve troops. russia has ukraine outgunned in the air. you can see that ukraine has dozens of active combat helicopters. russia has hundreds if not thousands. russia has the upper hand with fighter jets and bombers. russia has over 1,500 war planes. let's bring in pavel, a moscow-based defense analyst, also a columnist for a newspaper. it's good to have you, sir. i'm curious, do you think moscow has been surprised at the performance of the ukrainian military, that this hasn't been easier or quicker for russia? >> i believe everyone has been much surprised. as far as i can recall, the pentagon was also predicting that organized ukrainian resistance would collapse in 72 hours. three days. well, the three days passed and they're still fighting as an organized force.

with their staffs working. it's believed the organized resistance would collapse, there would be kind of guerilla warfare. but right now they are still fighting back in an organized manner. they still have a government, they still have a centralized military command system. that's, yes, surprising i think to many. it will be surprising to many in the west. and actually that could change the situation very dramatically in the comeing week, couple of weeks, if the ukranians continue to hang on like that, there's going to be changes russia would have to make to its plans and also most like ly the west will also change. >> i was going to ask you to expand on that.

>> guerilla warfare, if it turns out that ukraine can continue to fight in a coherent way as a sort of state, that means that they -- that would mean very different weapons. it would mean tanks, heavy guns, missiles, maybe fighter jets, attack drones. a totally different array of things and that they are receiving right now. if they continue to resist the russians in this organized fashion. and that's a big problem. it's a big problem for russia because that actually gives ukraine a very narrow but still maybe path to victory in the end. >> also, as we're discussing -- sorry, go ahead. >> the russians still have the

initiative on the battle field, that's a sure thing. they have the initiative in some places, more successful in others, but they have the initiative, the ukrainians are just pushing back. >> as we were discussing with fred pleitgen, one of the other challenges would be if this offensive has not gone as fast as or as far as the russians might have planned, they're going to run into supply issues and rotating troops out. it complicates the initial plan, one would imagine. >> there's a well-known saying in the american military, the finest military plans go to rubbish as soon as you meet the enemy on the battle field. so surprise that plans have to be altered as the campaign develops. but yes, the russians seem to be off schedule. and not really getting what they

were wanting. they wanted swift collapse of the ukranian government. and the swift collapse of their organized resistance. and hoped or believed part of their propaganda, that the ukrainian people want to see the russians come in. maybe some do, actually. maybe 20% of the population are pro-russian. but the others seem to be not. and they are not really greeting the russians much at all. that's also a bit of a problem. the russians are trying to fight this campaign as a kind of -- kind of by rule, kind of by geneva conventions, trying not to attack civilians. of course there's collateral damage, but they're trying to do it. not serious style, not with a sledgehammer, not by liberating cities by reducing them to

rubble. but that's also been maybe part of the problem because the russian military in the last years have been going a lot in syria, they're used to a kind of different way of taking cities and territory. >> yeah. well, exactly, a much heavier hand. we know what happened in grossny in chechnya as well. something i'll get you to comment on, if this does become a resistance war, could it as the french president suggested last perhaps years? >> well, actually, yes, it could. i concur with president macron, although he not always says the right things, but this time i think he may have. that could actually, in the end, make russia back out of this conflict. because they have also military issues. russia right now has a very

large and fine standing army. the last official figure that i know is from september from the minister general that russia has 168 permanent ready tactical battalion groups in its military. that is really a lot. the problem is, they don't have reserves. actually, no reserves much worth talking about. they're not ready. >> yes. >> there's no reservists training. that means -- >> good point. >> as russians spread out, and ukraine is a big country. and a populated country. and their military begin to be kind of exhausted. there's not much to replace them with or reinforce them with. there are reservists on paper, but they have not been ever called up after completing

compulsory service. that means you have to call them up, then you have to train them three, four, six months before they can go into any kind of meaningful action. >> exactly. >> there you may have superiority of numbers. if they continue to fight as volunteers, and they have a lot of trained reservists. because they have experience fighting in the donbas, fighting the russians. >> we've seen a lot of them on the streets as well. i'm going to leave it there, pavel. thank you so much. appreciate you joining us here. for a third time in a week, the u.s. and its allies ramping up the pressure on russia's economy over its invasion of ukraine. moscow was slapped with two rounds of sanctions earlier, including some that personally targeted president putin. u.s. president joe biden did not mince words when he explained that decision.

>> putin is the aggressor. putin chose this war. now he and his country will bear the consequences. putin's aggression against ukraine will end up costing russia dearly, economically, and strategically. we will make sure of that. putin will be a pariah on the international stage. it's going to take time, and we have to show resolve so he knows what's coming and so the people of russia know what he's brought on them. that's what this is all about. >> now the u.s. and some g7 countries are raising the stakes and cutting a number of russian banks out of so-called s.w.i.f.t. financial system. jas win white explains how that will hurt russia.

>> reporter: today, european leaders, canada, u.s. announce are announced a slate of actions really trying to expel some certain banks from the financial community. if we focus on the russian bank and the amount of cash reserves, about $600 billion, as it tries to prop up the russian economy amid waves of sanctions. what the u.s. and their partners are trying to do is basically stop that ability for the russian central bank to do that with some restrictive measures and also kind of sending the rubel into freefall. we know u.s. officials are discussing sanctions and turning to s.w.i.f.t., that international banking system that links up world banks to about 11,000 financial institutions. the u.s., along with their partners, are basically trying to make it impossible for some russian banks to connect with that service, making those

transactions impossible. again, trying to isolate the russian financial system. it is still unclear at the moment which russian banks will be affected by the exclusion. violence in ukraine is pushing tens of thousands of innocent people out of their homes, forcing them to leave loved ones behind. >> so we are afraid. my husband is still there. we'll fight. even if europe doesn't help us. >> hear from some of these new refugees in their own words next.

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from suffering i think for our kids, because there was so many little kids and it was freezing outside. pass from the first border to the second border to the third border. >> as refugees desperately make their way out of ukraine and into neighboring countries,

cnn's erin burnett and her crew joined a group on their long, grueling journey. listen to what erin told cnn's pamela brown. >> reporter: we got up this morning, we had been down maybe an hour. awakened by air sirens down in the bomb shelter. that's how it is now. and then we began our journey to the polish border. and first we passed the train station and it is hordes of people, hofrds of people. it is indescribable. people rushing to get on buses. as you said, it is primarily women and children. the men, obviously many of them are not ukrainians who are trying to get out. and trying to rush onto bosses to get over the border. when we went to the border, we were stopped dead about 29 miles from the exact border. and at that point it just came to a complete halt. over the next two hours we went,

90 minutes, we went half a mile. it was running about 57 hours to cross the border with poland. pamela, it was incredible. there were people, they would get there, stop, some of them take volts, which is their uber, and they're walking. women with babies, people with pets, elderly women, people with toddlers and children. they're getting ready to walk 30 miles. i find it hard to describe what we saw. and i think the numbers coming out of the u.n. are low from what we've seen at that border and others throughout the day. so that's what we saw. then when we finally decided, we're going to turn around and try a different border, we turned around, there was a place to stop. we went in, i ran into a woman, her english was perfect. she was there with her two children. she and her husband spent the past couple of days at that border to cross. when they got there, they knew about the martial law, they knew he was in the range, but he had work papers in poland. they thought he would be able to

cross. he was denied. so the whole family turned around. and she just started weeping, speaking to me. i have to say, these are the emotional scenes. i think that there isn't a person here covering the story who hasn't felt very emotional, seeing these people fleeing their homes and going to maybe in some cases family in others, they don't know where they're going. they're just trying to get out. they're sitting in cars if they're lucky and walking and spending days and they're out sleeping right now in this extremely cold weather. >> cnn be's arwa damon following the refugee situation. she joins me now from idika, a polish town near the border with ukraine. arwa, you've been meeting and talking to the people. just give us a sense of what's happening there, what they're going through. >> reporter: perhaps the best way is show you, let the people

speak for themselves. we were talking to these two sisters here, vika and anastasia. they spent two days trying to get across that border. two days. you were out in the cold, no food, no water, nowhere to go, no information. i mean, it must have been -- how did you even get through that? >> we don't know. >> it feels like hell, really. >> yeah. >> we were thinking what to do, panicking that we're not going to manage the border. because we thought, okay, we will be there, we will be safe, we will be safe. our thoughts were, because we were from kyiv, the day the bombs landed, it was total panic. but came there, to sit there, to come you need to walk with your luggage. >> oh, we didn't mention. 25 kilometers. >> you were walking? >> and on this road where you are seeing women, children,

little children trying to get through. and this family, how long did they say it took them? how long did they wait? >> a day, and they also did the 25 kilometers. everybody who came there not by car, wants to cross by foot, they need to come. 25 kilometers by foot. because the road is so -- this is 25 kilometer queue of cars. maybe now it's more. that information is three days ago. so no car can even get the people inside. >> right, right. so it's all -- the cars are just completely blocked off with no passengers and there's no organization. i'm sorry, your parrot came through? >> yes. i rescued the parrot. i couldn't leave him under the bombs from kyiv. it's impossible. so no documents, so thanks to

them, dogs, cats. >> you know, michael, we're hearing all of these horrific stories. then there's also the stories of families who are getting separated, because basically men ages 18 to 60 are not allowed to leave. and so people are finding themselves in this situation where they have to say good-bye to their husbands, their sons, their brothers. and you talk to women who are leaving with children, they're telling their children that daddy will be coming soon. but they don't know if they're actually telling their children the truth. could you ask this family if the husband, the kid's father, where are they? they're talking about how they're trying to say good-bye, how they're trying to figure

this all out for the kids. parents are having to try to somehow figure out how to stay strong for their children. and what these young women were telling us was that there is such a lack of organization on the other side that people, the panic, the overwhelming emotion of wanting to just get out and get to safety are getting quite aggressive. people are trying to just shove through the lines. they're trying to save themselves, save their families. and so they're hoping that there's a bit more coordination that happens on the other side. it's utterly heartbreaking. once they get here, they get moved on in buses. there's an army of volunteers here offering free housing, free rides, food, water. but there's still this sense of fear and confusion. did she have to leave her husband?

>> yes, her husband left, and old people -- >> they weren't able to come out? >> yeah. >> they had to say good-bye to their family? >> their family, their husbands. >> i'm so sorry. >> they also said good-bye to her father. >> your dad stayed? >> yes, and "i give him my car." >> how were you able to say good-bye to your father? >> i think that it was the most awful thing to say. she was crying. >> i'm so -- that's just impossible. >> when we were just waiting for -- in our car in queue, it wasn't so scary to say good-bye. but when it actually happened, i was crying a lot. >> i'm sure.

>> oh my gosh, the bombs, we started to panic. >> i left my father in kyiv. >> you left your father too? >> and eight cats. i did everything to take them out, but it was one car. >> you know, michael, we're also meeting a lot of people on this side who have elderly family members inside who quite simply physically are not able to make this journey. you heard it from these young women, you heard it from the others. it's walking for hours. it's standing for days in the freezing cold. someone who's ill, someone who's elderly, quite simply can't make this journey. there really is this sense also -- this is frightening -- this that is just the beginning.

so as the numbers keep swelling along all these borders, you really feel as if something needs to change. within the processing system. there maybe needs to be some humanitarian corridor that opens up to get people out safely so they're not suffering on top of the fear they have had to go through and the uncertainty of it all. >> that is such an important point, arwa. there's been 160,000 who have crossed over, some number like that, according to the u.n. the projections are it could be up to 5 million. how are they going to handle that sort of exodus if that number actually proves to be the case? as you always do with your reporting, and we try to impress upon people, put yourself in their position. you've just fled your house, you've fled your family, you've headed to another country. you don't want to be doing this, your country's being invaded. imagine what that's like.

powerful stuff. thanks for bringing us the humanity of this as you always do. appreciate that. for people watching, if they want to help people in ukraine who might be in need of shelter, food, water, or assistance on borders, go to cnn.com/impact. people are trying to help these people, and you can find several ways there that you can help. before we go to break, i want to leave you with these scenes of resilience out of ukraine. people singing their national anthem while huddled in a shelter in lviv. ♪ ♪ to uplift the senses and transform your mood.

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i'm michael holmes live in lviv in ukraine. we're getting reports of new clashes on this, the fourth day of russia's assault on ukraine. fighting has broken out in the center of kharkiv as russian troops enter that city. that's coming from the head of the kharkiv regional state administration. ukrainian armed forces posting video that they say shows russian vehicles set on fire in kharkiv. meanwhile, russia claims its troops have made advances in southern ukraine, including in the city of kerson. that also said that there was a mass surrender by ukrainian troops. of course, we can't independently verify those claims. a delegation from russia has arrived in belarus for peace

talks with ukraine. kremlin spokesperson dmitry peskov says the delegation includes representatives of the ministry of foreign affairs, the ministry of defense, and the presidential administration. but one thing apparently missing, a delegation from ukraine. the ukrainian president, volodymyr zelenskyy, said he would be willing to hold talks with russia but not in belarus, he doesn't see them as an objective player. russian troops entered his country from there. and in a new address on facebook, mr. zelenskyy also calling for people around the world to join in the fight against the russians saying, quote, anyone who wants to join the defense of ukraine, europe and the world can come and fight side by side with the ukrainians against what he called the russian war criminals. let's go back to fred pleitgen who is on the russian side of the border in belgrade. what more are you seeing there, tred? >> reporter: it's interesting because since the last half hour

or so that we spoke, we saw several bursts of russian artillery rocket fire fired towards ukrainian territory. all of that most probably being fired towards the area around car kharkiv, where russian forces say they've entered that city and reports are there are street battles going on in kharkiv. we have to point out, we're the final checkpoint before the frontline of kharkiv. when we spoke there were three ambulances standing around. two of those have actually gone into that area. not sure why or what thor doing. but there's only one there standing right now. what we're seeing still, a lot of motion, a lot of movement on the part of the russian forces. we saw a couple of convoys go in and out of that area as well. as on the whole, we can see there does seem to be a lot of momentum. we saw operations here on the c

kharkiv front. we're south of where russians have a considerable troop concentration. if you go to the towns here on the side of this checkpoint, you see a lot of big russian military hardware, battle tanks, howitzers, parked there. that's one of the things that we have to point out to our viewers when we hear reports of the russians possibly running into trouble, possibly some of these offenses slowing down. the russians certainly on this side of the border still seem to have the big capacity to escalate the situation, to escalate their offensive, if that's something that vladimir putin chooses to do. certainly the hardware is here and the troops are here as well. >> all right, fred pleitgen on the russian side of the border, always great to get your reporting from there. thanks is much. we will be right back after the break. with mucinex all-in-one you've got unbeatable relief from your worst cold and flu symptoms. so when you need to show your cold who's boss, grab mucinex all-in-one.e...

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hello, welcome to all of you watching in the united states, canada, around the world. i'm kim brunhuber. let's update our top story. fighting has broken out in the center of kharkiv, ukraine, as russian troops advance into the country's second-largest city. officials are urging in shelter travel. kharkiv was approached shortly after the invasion started thursday. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is calling for people around the world to join in the fight against russia saying, anyone who wants to join the defense of ukraine, europe, and the world, can come and fight side by side with the ukrainians against the russian war criminals. protesters have been demonstrating around the world against russia's aggression against ukraine. from demonstrations in the streets to landmarks lit up in yellow and blue, people are showing their support for ukraine and venting their anger at vladimir putin.

>> reporter: thousands of swiss protesters in bern chant with a mixture of sadness, outrage, and disbelief. they carry signs and a clear message, they stand with the ukrainian people. >> stand with ukraine! >> reporter: from munich to milan, london to ankara, similar outpourings of support ringing from the streets and city squares in many languages. crowds of protesters gathering in munich, many carrying or wearing blue and yellow flags. for some, war seemed a thing of the past. now they stand in disbelief. one demonstrator says, we are worried about our brothers, sisters, relatives. we have peace for 80 years, and all of a sudden war is back in europe. in milan, protesters wave a giant rainbow flag, signifying peace across the duomo square. ♪ in london, streets are flowing blue and yellow as protesters sing ukraine's national anthem and urge governments to do more. >> there's going to be much

worse consequences if we let it go. i really hope putin will listen. but the only way how he would listen is with all the countries helping us. if we just stand here, this is obviously not enough. >> reporter: in turkey's capital, some 200 people, including ukrainian and turkish nationals, repeated slogans against the russian invasion. a few chanted between tears. one woman says, "we are all aware of this ugly attack against the ukrainian state. children there should live there laughing and playing happily." some world leaders are joining in on twitter. the uk's prince william and his wife kate wrote, quote, they stand with the president and all of ukraine's people. pope francis showed his support with a tweet addressing the "senselessness of violence" and urging people to pray for ukraine. in other parts of the world people are lighting up buildings and appealing to higher powers. the atletico stadium in madrid lit up in the national colors of ukraine on friday. a message at the front of the

stadium sent out another plea to stop the war. in one north indian city, people gathered to perform a holy ritual, praying for peace between russia and ukraine. >> russia, go home! russia go home! >> reporter: many across the world are standing up against the invasion with prayers, protests, and pleas as ukraine's future hangs in the balance. many in the sporting world are condemning the russian invasion of ukraine, especially in international soccer. signs of support for ukraine were visible when everton hosted manchester city on saturday. both teams wore ukrainian flags. in germany, bayern munich traveled to frankfurt where the stadium was lit up in ukraine's colors. a similar scene took place in leverkusen. the two teams joined in solidarity and fans held a moment of silence before the

game. a high-profile ukrainian athlete is urging an end to the wor. former boxing heavyweight wladimir klitschko posted this sobering message. >> you need to act now to stop russian aggression. with anything you can have now. in an hour or by tomorrow is going to be too late. please get into action now. don't wait. act now. stop this war. >> the boxing legend's brother, vitaly, is the mayor of ukraine's capital, kyiv. he's also a former boxing champion. "saturday night live" is also showing its solidarity with ukraine. the program replaced its typical opening comedy sketch with this. ♪ ♪

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hello, everyone. i'm michael holmes coming to you live from lviv in ukraine. i want to give you the latest on the ongoing russian invasion. the ukrainian president zelenskyy calling on volunteers around the world to fight side by side with ukranians. a short time ago saying, those who want to join the fight should contact the ukrainian embassy in their own countries. zelenskyy also said he is ready to talk to russia but not in

minsk, belarus, which moscow proposed as a venue. ukrainian forces say this video shows russian military vehicles set on fire in kharkiv. ukraine says russian troops have entered its second-largest city, and there is fighting on the streets there. moscow also claiming progress in kurson and other cities in the south, saying almost 500 ukrainian troops have been captured. we could not independently confirm those claims, of course. the people of kyiv are making it clear they have not let go of their homeland easily. many ordinary residents taking it upon themselves to fight the russian invasion. cnn's matthew chance talks to one such group of men. >> reporter: these are ukraine's civilian defenders. local residents taking up arms and ready to fight. >> that's his blood on the ground? >> it is his blood. >> reporter: already here in a

suburb of the capital kyiv, there's been blood spilled. deadly contact between these volunteers and russian forces. >> i've never served in an army. >> reporter: volunteers like yuri, who was an economic analyst, he tells me, before this russian invasion made him a fighter. >> you work in an office, now you're defending your country, your city? >> correct. i didn't think i would join this unit just two days ago. i thought that, you know -- i don't know how to handle guns. and yesterday it came to me that, russians are in the city. i mean, it's -- it's close to the point that i have completely changed my mind, and i have decided that i should do something about it.

>> reporter: just hours before, this northern kyiv suburb was the scene of firefights as russian forces probe the ukranian capital. and the entire city and its residents are bracing and preparing for more. >> petrol bombs? molotov cocktails? >> yes. >> show me. >> this is what i have to use to stop the tank. >> these are your molotov cocktails, your petrol bombs? >> yes. >> you made these yourself? >> no. the people bring me this. >> the people? from the local -- >> they bring me this. >> reporter: and they may be needed soon, very soon. as we left the building, more shots ring out.

russia's assault on the city seems at hand. matthew chance, cnn, kyiv, ukraine. >> again, if you would like to help people in ukraine who might be in need of the basics like shelter, food, and water, go to cnn.com/impact. several ways there that you can help. i'm michael holmes in lviv, ukraine. our breaking news coverage of the russian invasion in ukraine continues with boris sanchez and christie paul on "new day." you're watching cnn. ♪ ♪

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pass a. good morning. welcome to this special edition of newday. i'm christie paul. >> i'm boris sanchez. right now ukrainian forces are fighting the russian military on many fronts russian forces