ah, ah ah, this is the w news ly from berlin, russia launch is a full scale invasion of ukraine. russian air and land forces are moving in from all sides, and are inching closer to the capital kids and other large cities. ukraine says dozens of people have been kill ukrainian president brought him is a lensky, says the country's army is fighting back with ukrainian troops engaging russian forces across the country. tens of thousands of civilians are fleeing major cities, while those who remain shelter in the history of deserves written

prudence choice to make it totally unjustifiable war on ukraine who love love, russia weaker than the rest of the world. stronger. and us president joe biden announce his severe new sanctions against russia and more us troops to bolster nato allies. ah, a michael ok welcome. russia has launched the full scale invasion of ukraine, the russian military or heating targets across the country, including big cities and the capital. kia ukraine government says dozens of its soldiers have been killed so far. and what it's calling a full scale war. tens of thousands of civilians are seeking shelter across the country. the e was calling the invasion the darkest hours for the continent since world war 2

and has vowed to impose crippling sanctions. d w. so funny for chart is in the capital cares funny. what's happening right now where you are i had to move inside occur. she just started here in keith. people are not supposed to be outside bench outside. also, in addition to that martial law is in place, state of emergency is in place. so everybody i has to say inside and to make sure that they were the are, they do have the security provided being bunkers as shelters. and that the people are basically in a way have some sort of a general feeling of protection. given the fact that there's been so much explosion, so much her shelling going on across the country. but also keith, in fact, they are still battles on going at a military airport about 50 kilometers from the capital city. unclear at this point,

but it has fallen or not. but the situation is very tan, so everyone is called upon to stay inside ends to basically a wait, what's to happen? people are bracing actually for very difficult hours a very difficult night here in keith update us on the military situation. the u. s . says it believes russia wants to decapitate ukraine's government with an attack on keith. are people there anticipating the approach of troops on their way from bell ridge? actually this is like a 3 for on sir attack to say. so from both the northern border, the better respond as you just point out from the southern borders from the east symbol with a. so a military is mobilized. russian troops are mobilized both, or they're coming in by land, by c, by air. and bella, luce is basically 200 kilometers to the north of keith. already are the russian

troops have a taken at sharon nobel, a nuclear plant, which is a very, very some situation obviously. and we know from history 1986. what happened? and it's really unclear if there is shelling surrounding that channel built plant. what that may mean, of course, for the rest of the country and the loosening situations to the military, troops are already very close by to keep the question really is if they're going to go as far in the next couple of iraq, couple hours to take her to, to basically i assault or, or launch an assault on the key of a government or facilities or not, but the ukrainian government is actually bracing for that. that's one of the reasons why they also sat people stay put a you have to stay inside. there's a very, very volatile situation, and really nobody can say whether a key is going to be taken within the next 24 hours. did in a few hours a few days. what people are really concerned about though, what that actually will mean a to what then if keith, it will be taken?

what, what that means to those people who are staying. he and keith, both in security, but both in terms of the future of, of, of ukraine as a whole. what the ukranian leadership, se president zelinski it wants to maintain. com. in fact, he was taking the information that he has about what's on going according to ukrainian information to social media. he's been updating people. he in ukraine about his social media house, the a via to bitter. but he, oh, so i was sort of expressing a bit of a mixed message and politics. yeah, on one hand he said stay calm, don't panic. on the other hand, he was basically calling on every one of fighting age. and of every one was able to just hold a gun to show up and fight. and to help those ukranian troops here in ukraine to fight off this offensive, this multi scale invasion,

a and aggression. that is you, that the ukraine is experiencing right now from rochelle. funny, as you mentioned, a curfew has been imposed. people have been sent it air raid shelters. how will or the people of key of reacting. some are panicking. they were trying to leave. keith is through the day. if not it's really difficult. at this point. you have to imagine that like 4 highway lanes, all of them are full of cars. it's really difficult to actually leave. keep right now, and that's the danger you end up in traffic. what's going to happen to you if you're stacking step traffic during the night? right now, others are staying poor. they're trying to look for a shelter. again, others actually have seen just before the curfew, where walking around here still as if nothing had changed. now obviously people are trying to also, of psychologically just

a go outside because they've been staying inside watching, used all day just to take up fresh a trying to in a way i am sort of relax in this very tense situation. even though that may sound strange, but again, others in fact holding ukrainian flax and, and, and by that really symbol as a, symbolizing what the mentality here of so many ukrainians is. and that is a mood of defiance. despite of all the sight, sound of siren than we were hearing, echoing through a key, seated today, the explosions. there's defiance, but there's also panic that definitely cannot be underestimated, especially if presidency. lensky scoring on people to take up arms. what is that going to mean for the security as all of keefe that is funny for shot on top of an involving situation in ukraine's capital? many facts u. s. president joe biden has given a press conference detailing fresh sanctions against russia and affirming the u. s

. military commitment to defending its nato allies in eastern europe. and he strongly condemned russian president vladimir putin jackson's. let's listen in to some of what he had to say and put his aggression against ukraine, one of caution, russia dearly economically as strategically. we will make sure that food will be a pariah and international stage. any nation countenance rushes naked aggression against ukraine will be stained by association. the history of this, or is written, who destroys, to make a totally unjustifiable war on ukraine, left russia weaker, and the rest of the world's stronger liberty, democracy, human dignity. these are the forces, far more powerful than fear and oppression. they cannot be extinguished by tyrants by prudent and his armies. they cannot be raised by people from people's hearts,

and hopes, by any amount of violence and intimidation. they endure. we have a d, w 's oliver salad standing by for us in washington, d. c. oliver. what do you make of bite in speech? what really stood out for you? yeah, those were really high tensions there. michael, in the white house in the east room just a little while ago reporter is yelling there. questions ad president biden, in a way you don't see that very often and present biden, in contrast, coming out with the very strong and devastating condemnation for the russian president vladimir putin. he gave all the responsibility to him for the current escalation, for his military attack on ukraine. he talked of prudence, naked aggression, quote unquote. and his desire to rebuild a russian empire. he says his actions were unprovoked unjustifiable. those were his

words. and you know, what stunning is how he described, how putin engaged in all those diplomatic efforts over the last days and weeks, and at the same time, really cold bloodedly, preparing this invasion, this attack on ukraine. and really, the key takeaway here i think was basically the notion of diplomacy that the west can focus on, on diplomacy, on deterrence, really that this failed. and so we might be looking back of the stay as a watershed moment for the international order watershed moment. indeed, or what actions does the us intend to take against russia at present biden proposed or of described rather a harsh sanction package, and he made sure that this was negotiated together with the trans atlantic partners . he talked about blocking for more russian bangs completely off the u. s. financial market. what we didn't hear is any,

any substantial sanctions on the energy sector and russia also swift, that a financial system was not mentioned that is needed for in financial institutions to send money in and out. for russia, reportedly, germany and italy, we're reluctant, and therefore it was not put on the sanction package. president biden, however, made clear that russia already feels the consequences of his actions, that the rubel and russian stalks are plunging. and then also describes how in the future russia will have difficulties accessing international financial markets. technology imports that are very important for the russian economy. of course, with the ultimate goal to hurt hooton's in a circle, the russian economy. and therefore, also to isolate russia from the rest of the world. there certainly oliver was a lot of dialogue guy leading up to this invasion by russia. will the us stay

open to dialogue with russia at this point? and that's a very important point because until now, until this invasion began, really, all effort was on negotiations and we sit, we saw that this did not bring the success that the western countries wanted. so under these circumstances right now, present biden rebuke. the question of meeting putin and of talking directly to him on the contrary, really, both country have expelled their deputy ambassadors in the last hours of the situation is described as a major disruption of you as russian relations. and that will certainly not change until prudent stops his attack on ukraine. that steve, you corresponded oliver's salad in washington. many thanks, only of course, monetary sholtes now with a debrief of an exclusive nato briefing she attended a short while ago. so what i've been told by this western intelligence source is

that they very much fear that if the piece of the invasion continues as it has up until now, that key of could be encircled and fall to the russians within 24 hours. of course, i mean that is not a 100 percent certain assessment, but this is what it looks like now from the success that the russians have had in taking over the country all the way to the capital. they now control this official says, all of ukrainian air space, they control both the military and the civilian airport and in a near cave. so this of course is a very, very key asset for the ukranian government that has been lost. this official also fears that a, that putin does intend to go all the way into the capital and try to remove presidents zalinski and replace him with a puppet president that would, would carry out moscow's wishes. so the assessments are very, very dire at the moments nato is not going to go in and,

and joined the ukrainian side by side. in this combat. today we heard secretary general silverberg praise, the ukranian men and women in uniform for fighting bravely. i think everyone's hearts are breaking as they watch this, but there is simply would never be an agreement by 30 allies to go in and and fight for ukraine that was never going to happen. t w's. terry schultz, the ukrainian government says dozens of its soldiers have been killed despite there's, they're promising and all out. the french with dawn came the bombs rusher attacked sites across ukraine. the russian troops that had been amassing on the border for weeks started rolling in, recorded on surveillance cameras by ukraine's border police brushes. lida latimer, putin announced the military operation in abroad. call some russian tv. he disparaged

ukraine's democratically elected government and ukrainian soldiers to surrender. ukraine's president followed amir savanski introduced martial law. and he made an emotional plea to russian questions can. i'm addresses you the russian people as a ukrainian citizen, bullied, we are separated by a border stretching more than 2000 kilometers. and right now there are 200000 of your soldiers. there are a couple of your leadership has authorized them to move into the territory of another country yet. and this could mark the start of the major war on the european continent. now you can continue black smoke from a ukrainian military airport and shogi have in the east of the country. russia

confirms that they bombed the site for housing block with hit and distraught residents were left, grieving the 1st casualties in a new war. they did not want as the world condemned russia's attack on its neighbor. the e u commission president said all of europe is under threat. give over the russians target is not only done, but the target is not only ukraine. the target is the stability in europe. and the whole of the international piece order and we will hold president putin accountable for that. germany's chancellor love shalt promised more sanctions will be coordinating closely with our international partners in nato and in the european union today in order to place further severe sanctions against russia now

. but clank sions can't come soon enough for many ukrainians. in the capital, keith calls jammed the roads as the residents tried to flee the city dw vladimir. yes, he is a russia expert enjoined me now from london. greetings. vladimir, what has the russian government been saying about the invasion and its military aims grow? and there are, some was already mentioned, some em, the complete ukrainian air spaces on the ration control sorts of all their areas, scripts and airports are took over by russian by russian troops. and in the last hours, they had some very symbolic steps by the russian troops made, for example, the chernobyl nuclear plant remains of that, you're not talking about national troops. first of all, in the 2nd reach,

a kylie symbolic for us, and quite important for crimea. the water general from the ukranian mainland, which was bringing water from the ukrainian mainland, cramming peninsula is taken over by the russians as well. so the crime will be getting water some from the ukraine and mainland. so the russian forces are in complete control of all other ukrainian aerospace and this is the most important result of the state of this attack. and so they've managed to seal a very specific passageway and also to stabilize the military installations there. what reactions are coming out of moscow to the raft of new sanctions being impose well interest, interest in, excuse me, interesting. the, the ration are both ross and current in their us and talk on the right after and by the beach. so the russians were expected over the us,

european union would pull the nuclear option. and so down the inter bank payment systems for us. and they didn't happen so far. so or, or bit their us market was expecting the worst option for them. and they didn't happen, so their 1st reaction on the market is quite a stronger robles and strong stock exchange. surprisingly, vladimir, you've heard this before. i mean, ukraine is a vast country. more than 40000000 people. can russia really afford to continue to wage this war? i mean, on the financial and by this yes or russia has a huge foreign currency reserved $66600000000000.00 and to blame for in the words of the china drop on in switzerland and came stress of it really huge currency reserve. so for the time being right financially can,

can afford to store yes. and it's moving very fast as it's with either moving very fast and then you can the mainland so it's, it's very fast developing fast indeed. that's the w. vladimir. yes, he bought many thanks. let me let's have a look at the situation on the ground and ukraine. russian president vladimir putin said the operation was launched to protect the people. and what moscow recognized as the done yet skin la hans people's republics. earlier this week, parts of those regions have been held by pro russian shepherdess since 2014. but the russian military attack targets across ukraine, explosions were reported across ukrainian territory, including new or in the cities of khaki. my report, or desa and the capital give an ukraine says it was attacked from 3 sides from the territory of bella luce, in the north, from the breakaway regions in the east,

and from crimea in the south. let's take a closer look at ukraine. it's key industries, geo strategic importance in recent past by territory. ukraine is the biggest country in europe, and it's located at a strategic crossroads, all it's western neighbors, except moldova, are nato members, while russia and bella, bruce, surround it to the north and east. around 44000000 people live in ukraine. the official language is ukrainian, but most people are bi lingual and speak russian. about 8000000 ethnic russians live in ukraine, mostly in the countries the south and east. that's often moscow's pretext for its interest in ukraine, which became independent in 1991 after the fall of the soviet union. ukraine subsequent tilts to the west, brought tensions to

a head. in 2014 russia annexed the crimean peninsula and to pro russian eastern provinces declared themselves independent. launching a war that's dragged on for 8 years. ukraine has long been known as the bread basket of europe. among its top exports is wheat with big buyers in northern africa. if there is a wheat shortage in ukraine, bread prices go up in cairo, but it's economy is diverse. ukraine also has heavy industry, coal, and tech. several apps, including the popular face swapping app, re face were created by ukrainians. i'm joined now by board quote, house member of the european parliament. he is in forbush, near the hague, in the netherlands. welcome sir. you just let a delegation of the security and defense subcommittee on

a visit to the estonian capital tollen and the lithuanian capital vilnius, neighbors of russia and nato members. what was the situation there? well, the situation was very dire because food actually explained what is actual agenda, is that the agenda for score in russia before 1979 and they all, they were on fire. and as you know, these 3 countries, lithuania, and assume you are all part of nato and bob you. so they feel that they fear that they might be next. and i think that we have to be very make sure that we understand the main objective of the visit was to receive 1st and information on the threat from cyber attacks in the context of escalating tensions related to the ukraine crisis. what exactly did you find out? well, what we found out is that they are just as easy and it's august is the ukraine for cyber? because it's below article 5 very well, easily executed by the russian services. and gaining that effect is quite easy.

they are the 1st front of confronting nato and the you and those baltic nations have a different security. 2 posture that we have in western or southern europe. so it's very good to take the rest of the members of european parliament to that part of nato area natal territory and let them feel that show what the security threat landscape looks like. and i think that we took a very good, a deep look into that and was very successful because now i think everyone is very aware we have to be united against the spirit that comes from russia. it will not go away by itself a possible cyber attack target, but was there any evidence that they have in fact already been targeted? well, yes, as you know, there's new wiper malware, destructive malware going around, you created especially. but some of the companies in last year lithuania and also stony, i have been hit by the same malware. and as you see is part of the plan. if you

listen to a speech or more general, never restoring that russian empire, then his target area is there, your fault ration that he had on the cyber re. next is that is fits and it resembles and, and it's very important for us to help those countries in the cyber posture, better shape. and as you surely know, baltic countries in particular, in past years, were often the target of companies by campaigns, i should say, by russian state, back hacking groups. how did they take action? well, one of these hacking groups, ghostwriter, i think that was executed from below. and this is something new that the bureaus surfaces together with russian secret services conduct this information operations and cyber operations in that area. and it's been attributed by many of the nations and nations and allied nations around the world. and i think the corporation between billows and between the russian services illustrates this new era. we go

into this new era, if you would see what could miss up to right now with ukraine, he might end up a controlling that area as well. and some of the needs of territories of being more and more surrounded. and it's very worrying from a cyber perspective, especially from a military perspective. that is a broad hoot house and many, many thanks for your time and perspective, sir. you're welcome. thank you. recapping our top store, u. s. president joe biden has announced new sanctions targeting russian financial institutions. after russian president putin launched a full scale invasion of ukraine. he also said the u. s. would send additional troops to boost nato allies in eastern europe. russia has been carrying out attacks with air and land forces right across ukraine. key f says dozens have been killed and many injured in an assault that nato says amounts to a cold blooded invasion. western intelligence sources fear that keith could fall

into russian hands within 24 hours. western leaders have promised to impose crippling sanctions as a result of the invasion. stay tuned for our continuing coverage of russia is war against ukraine. a michael oke, who in berlin, thanks for watering. ah, [000:00:00;00]

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with war has returned to europe in the early hours of thursday. russian tanks and troops rolled across the border and a full scale invasion of ukraine. just moments after their president vladimir putin announced on television, he would launch a so called special military operation. that operations prompted a chorus of condemnation and vows to hold the kremlin accountable. but when it comes to defending the nation under attack,