richard louis. right here in new york city. after this hour for you, russia's war on ukraine begins its fifth day. vladimir putin, now, facing every growing condemnation from around the world after the economic sanctions against russia central bank on saturday are seeing outcomes this hour. there is a sharp decline with the russian currency with a 20% lower. meanwhile, the european union announcing sunday it's closing airspace to all russian aircraft. that will deliver $500 million of military hardware including fire jets to the country. seemingly, the countered east development, putin, issuing an

unprecedented threat sunday as well. announcing he put russia's new killer forces on high alert. experts tell the washington post it's the first time the kremlin had made such an announcement since the russian federation was established in 1991. putin is not only isolated around the world stage. he's being repelled on the battlefield as well. as ukrainian soldiers into the seasons have put up a far tougher fight that anyone anticipated. despite beating outnumbered and outgunned, they have killed 4300 russian troops. and while nbc news is unable to clarify that number, suggests that staggering losses are on behalf of the armed forces. this weekend, russia attacks are no destroying ukraine's infrastructure. with the task on the civilian oil outside of kyiv. and a gas line pipe outside of kyiv. but despite -- we russian forces were not able to take a hold of the cities. according to ukrainian officials, russia is trying to reinforce its troops.

satellite images show a large ground force roughly 40 miles outside of kyiv sunday. meanwhile, delegations from ukraine and russia will meet in just hours on the ukraine border with belarus to try and forge some progress to stop fighting. and while president zelenskyy says he's opening negotiation for peace, he's made it clear that he does not expect any breakthroughs from that discussion. plus, this hour, reports of explosions continue in kyiv as the fight for ukraine continues. let's check in with our reporters in the conflict zone, we have nbc correspondent eric mclaughlin, in which -- we have the star senior reporter for the route, a veteran arm in the checkpoint to kyiv. and nbc news correspondent, reporting from belarus, poland on the border with ukraine. first, let's begin with ella.

but >> hi richard. we are hearing from ukrainian military officers say that they have successfully repelled in the overnight hours repeated attacks on the capitol by russian forces. ukrainian military releasing a statement from the commander of the land forces of the armed forces of ukraine, saying, all attempts by the russian occupation forces to achieve their goal failed. convoys of occupiers equipments were destroyed. the enemy suffered significant personnel losses. russian troops are demoralized and exhausted. we have shown that we know how to protect our home from uninvited guest. we have yet to hear russia's account of what happened in the overnight hours, already though, ukrainian civilians are suffering according to ukrainian government officials. 52 civilians have been killed in four days of conflict. that includes 14 children. this as efforts are underway

for a cease fire. we are expecting talks on the border between ukraine and belarus between a russian delegation and ukrainian delegation with the president. he says he is not hopeful that we will try everything to solve the bloodshed. richard? >> at this moment, as we're watching, how is that affecting operations there in the area where you are at as we understand it's been very cold and we could clearly see snow behind you. >> well yes, well, here it is considered to be one of the safest places to be in ukraine at the moment. there are very little true presence. although, we have heard sirens throughout the day yesterday. sporadically. although, it's unclear if those silence -- it is part of the siren system that stretches across the whole of ukraine. in terms of the weather in kyiv, when i was just there, it was

unseasonably warm, actually, which may have an impact on russian troop movement. their ability to move heavy weapon throughout the area. but as this continues, and persist, clearly, the conditions are working in ukrainians advantage according to the ukrainian account of the conflict. richard? >> what is the sense of ukrainians there in terms of we of entering day five. as we were mentioning, of the conflict right, now we have all these reports that, yes, the russians are getting closer but they have not quite accomplished what ukrainians are finding so hard to keep from happening. you know, it's all hands on deck throughout the country. in kyiv, last, night i was speaking to a woman who is an artist. she paints for a living. and she has now turned into a weak cocktail maker. she is hunkering down with her neighbors in her apartment building. building cocktails, organizing

defense for the ukrainian troops. it's a remarkable effort underway throughout this country here. just yesterday, i was interviewing a man from lebanon. he's lived here for the past ten years. he's converted his bar into a refugee center. he's helping people, giving them a safe space for warm meals. even offering his basement for them to sleep. so, it's really an illustration that you have millions of people here in ukraine that are taking part in an all out effort to stop this russian invasion and defend their freedom. in any way they can, richard? >> and together. as you said. we erin mclaughlin, thank you for your reporting in lviv, ukraine. we now have another who's been embedded with an armed civilian force at securing a key checkpoint to kyiv. terrell, thank you for joining. us you're in a car right now. tell us where you're at, what

you're seeing. >> thank you richard. yes i'm in a car right now. we are at a checkpoint. we i am with a group of about 15 men who decided to enter into the country with weapons to defend and in fact basically the job is pretty simple to ensure that any car that is coming and going beyond this checkpoint is -- in fact, yesterday, i saw these men shoot what they suspected was to saboteurs. they were in an emergency visit -- the vehicle did not slow down. when the shots were fired into the air. finally, they finished off this vehicle where two people were killed. in fact, i'm about 100 meters away from the scene, right now,

and the bodies are still on the ground. along with the vehicle. because this is going to be an investigation. but saboteurs are known at the checkpoint. they should have volunteers and military personnel. this just shows you how dangerous it is. across the street, in fact, i am looking at a army barracks that was hit by russian missiles the other day. so, this is definitely a dangerous situation. especially for the men and women who just days ago were in their jobs as doctors, lawyers, museum directors -- rep herbal people. people who have not trained together. people who decided to do their very best to unite to defend their freedom. >> and, terrell, when you're with this group of 15, are the russians that are in ukraine? who are the saboteurs we who

they have shot and unfortunately have to take their lives? >> we have to ask these gentlemen what exactly happened. we need to know who these particular people are. usually, they are in fact russians. but what they were telling me was that it was a very -- suspicious case. because the guy was showing me that if there was a police car a medical car, they have their license plate already tag. they are all on the wall out here. the tags do not line up. they have no idea who these people are. again, it just shows you how dangerous the situation is because at this moment as the police are conducting their investigation, they don't have any idea. >> no idea. >> they know it's just not one of their people.

that's something they know for a fact. >> right. give us a sense, in your conversations as you've been traveling with this group of 15 who have taken up arms, what is their pulse like? where are the at today versus where they were yesterday? are they feeling more empowered? are they getting more worried? >> well, you know, they definitely told me that this is a very dangerous situation because again at any moment anything can happen. but there's another thing that's going on here. closer to the consequence of. or the whole time, just watching people come and go through this checkpoint is some of the people. even if they're not -- you can tell that when you see these men with these automatic weapons, you know that for some reason they freak out. so yesterday, there was a man who was driving with a man in the passenger seat, the volunteers wanted them to stop,

and for some reason, the woman got out of the car, and then she drove forward. so the guys fired one shot. they said, hey, do you understand. the guy got out. got into the backseat. put his hands up and said don't shoot. it was a very odd scene. and they basically took the people out. i thought they were going to be shot based on the brave. your but they didn't. they handle themselves as professionally as possible. they let the people go. but again, because this is a war-like environment, not only are the volunteers taking up arms. the general population is getting used to this as well. >> terrell, thank you so much for your reporting. as always terrell jermaine starr with the atlantic council. embedded there with the civilian force. on the road at the moment in kyiv. thank you so much. we return now to nbc news is correspondent who is in poland on the border with ukraine. what you are seeing there is a little bit different.

also on the road terrell, is with those who are trying to defend ukraine. you are watching people who are actually able to escape. mostly women and children at the moment. yesterday, when we spoke, buses upon buses were leaving. people weren't knowing where they're going. how is today different? >> yes, so it is interesting, as you said, yesterday we watched just buses full of people crossing this border checkpoint. this checkpoint is here. it's different than some of the other points because they don't allow pedestrian traffic. it's all vehicle traffic, but how we saw most people fleeing ukraine coming into this area was on the bus. those big gigantic tour buses. some of, them to checkers. if you look down here now, these are checkpoints where we have seen cars coming through but at some point we have been told by polish at some point last night for some reason on the ukrainian side.

the ukrainian checkpoint, they made the decision to stop allowing those big buses to cross through this checkpoint. now we're, told their only allying private vehicles to cross through this area. and when cars are coming, that's what we're seeing. but that would be a significant change a significant decision. why that's being done, we do not know. but that is what most people saw is that getting here, it was we have buses. they were being dropped off. somewhere on the ukrainian, side they were boarding these brick buses and making their way over here. most of the people on those buses were women and young children. because men who are considered fighting age, which would be 50 and 60, are being told to stay in the country and being banned from leaving. we were able to actually get on one of those buses yesterday and speak to people as soon as they made it into poland. i want you to listen to what one of them told us she said as she left and which he wishes the rest of the world would do.

>> [inaudible] >> i spoke to a man yesterday who was waiting for his family in a van on the side of the road here. it was 35 hours from when his family got in the line to try and make it across this checkpoint into poland from when they actually got here. the decision was made on the ukrainian side, last night, to stop the busses from coming through this checkpoint were told by polish border officials that the line to get in here

was 12 miles long. the average wait time to cross this checkpoint. this was the northern most, was 32 hours. that is before we heard that there was this stoppage of allowing buses through one of the other stops further south from here. the average wait time across there in the hours. richard? >> 80 hours and moving from buses to cars, wow, for those ukrainians who are trying to get. up the conversations that you have had had been absolutely eye-opening as we've been watching those trying to get away from the conflict zone. how are those conversations change allison? >> it's interesting, because when you talk to some people, first when they come, there is just a lot of quickly getting here and then trying to figure out where to go next. as we continue talking to people, it almost seems like there is a tragic silver calm

matter-of-factness that has happened. whatever happens next year for the family. they don't know that they have to figure something out. and people are making steps, planning to do just that. when we spoke to one woman who arrived with her young child yesterday, she said that it was too terrible to talk about what happened. they were just trying to get into a car to figure out where to go next, because they did not know where they were going to go. and that a mother who had left her older teen, young adult son, back in ukraine. had to come here the faces on people, particularly when they drive through those boxes and you see how packed they are. every c is full you see people standing in the aisles. you see children sitting on their parents laps. looking out through the window and that i think tells you everything about what people are going through. the words, sometimes there are not a lot, they're focused on what they need to do surviving. but you can see the faces, the devastation, the trauma they have gone through.

richard? >> signed military operations where you are out there. people fleeing, families fleeing and we get to see the help that poland is offering to all of them. a great story as always. ellison barber for us there in poland, thank you so much. up next, how the u.s., european union and others are punishing russia economically for its aggression and the impact that it might have on us here in the united states. stay with us. here in th united states. mindy! with up to 10x faster speeds, she can download a movie in minutes or a song in seconds. (mindy) yep! (vo) verizon is going ultra so you can do more.

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hours ago, the european commission president told zero news at the european union, wanting ukraine in the block. adding that they are one of us. moving to further punish russia for its invasion of ukraine. european officials are expected to approve yet a now they're set of sanctions, targeting 25 all the dark's, which include some of putin's closest friends. this comes after the eu announced that they were

closing in airspace to russian aircraft. banning transactions with the russian central bank and booting russia today and sputnik from broadcasting in the 27 countries that make up the european union. sunday, the united states, eu, uk and canada also announcing that some russian banks would be excluded from the swift payments system. that news rattled the markets, we can the russian ruble. russian central bank calling for calm as they try to stave off a run on the banks. i'm joined now by nbc foreign correspondent ralph sanchez in moscow. host of oh my world on youtube, former spokesperson for the u.s. mission to the un and former treasury spokes person during the obama administration. let's start with you on this one, we are looking at the ruble. opening 20% lower. we saw some of the futures hit even double in that case. and you and i spoke yesterday about this swift move and how

it might affect the economy in russia. what are some of the reads now as we hit monday, a business day, they're in moscow. >> richard, it is a little bit after 8:20 am here in moscow. the russian people are waking up to see the value of their currency basically collapsing in front of their eyes. as you said, the ruble has been down as much as 30%. that is a historic low. and that is going to have historic impacts on this country. and that is the point of the sanctions. they were designed to deal a hammer blow to the russian economy, to punish vladimir putin for this war in ukraine. and now it is going to affect the wealthy oligarchies. they are the people who are spending money in paris, in london, in new york, who are spending in foreign currencies. but it is also going to hammer ordinary middle class russians, who have nothing to do with this war.

and people here are absolutely terrified about what it means for their savings. they do not know where inflation is going to be. they do not know if the money that they have been saving is going to be worth anything by the end of the day. people have been trying desperately to get their hands on dollars. one man that i spoke to actually took all of his money, all have his family's money and he bought a house a couple of weeks ago, because he was worried exactly about the scenario. that the rupert would basically not be worth anything unless he put it into some other kind of asset. now vladimir putin had a plan for this. since 2014, he has been creating a financial war chest of foreign currency reserves, to prop up the rubble in exactly the scenario. but he did not expect the western countries would bring a another set of sanctions against the russian central bank. which would stop them from accessing that financial war chest. and so they are options for

propping up the rupaul this morning, not much they can do except for appeal for calm. trying to stop this slide in the rubble. we can see over the course of the day how this plays out, but people here are extremely frightened about how this means. as you see, the eu has also closed its airspace to russian aircraft. so russia is feeling more and more cut off physically, financially, diplomatically, politically right now. and the hope in washington, in the european capitals, is that is going to have a impact on vladimir putin's mindset and cause him to end this war in ukraine. but richard, as we have talked about, the russian president seems more and more cut off from his people than in any other point that we have seen in his 22 year rule. we have all kind of had a laugh

about those long tables that he has been sitting at when he has been meeting with his aides, but that is kind of a physical manifestation of a russian president who is listening to fewer and fewer people. we will see if these real world impacts change his mindset. richard? >> starting to hit the pocketbook. hud are, you know this better, putting on your treasury hat for a minute. russia has really experienced a great five years when it comes to gdp and now all of the sudden, the u.s. is saying hey, you may do 46 billion in international dollars every day in her transactions. but 80% of that is in u.s. dollars. and now we are saying but, hang on a second, we are not going to let you do that. >> it is. the sanctions are quite unprecedented. and the reason i say that, it is because the options themselves has not been imposed before. iran's actions don't look that

different actually. if you look at the options themselves. because russia is so well integrated into the international financial system because they traded so much all around the world. in particular, with the united states and europe, and these are the major countries like, australia, canada, japan. wielding the sanctions. that is why i say they are unprecedented. because of the pain that they can inflict. we'll be all the greater. and when you have a country that is integrated that well into the international financial system and doing trade with all of these countries, it presents post an opportunity and a challenge. the opportunity is that you can siphon off more money. you can probably freeze more assets. the very fact that they had these foreign reserves and had over 640 billion dollars in foreign reserves. including about 60% in u.s. dollars. it is astronomical. and it shows by the way, that president putin did not expect this kind of move.

so there is the opportunity, the challenge of course is that there will be some sort of blow back and it just depends on how it is a announced. we did not get the details as to what exactly the restrictions regarding the central bank will be, or what's financial institutions will be cut off by swift. and i imagine having been on the inside, having crafted these types of sanctions and a surgical and deliberate way, that they are trying to do as much as possible to limit the blow back as much as they can. you >> are really good at simplifying the u.s. presidential stuff. but when it comes to the central bank, that was kind of like russians piggy bank. they needed more money during this war, as this war goes on longer, as this conflict goes on longer, they needed to access it. is it basically all of the banks of the world potentially saying, yeah, you've got this money in your bank, but a lot of these are ious and we are not going to give you the money. is that what it is coming down to? >> essentially yes.

yes. again, we do not have the specific details of the sanctions on the central bank. but based on what we have saw from the white house, they spelled it out it is essentially saying that whatever the restriction will be, it is to prevent russia from getting its hands on its own money that is stashed abroad. and as ralph mentioned, that money, one of the -- all of the countries have foreign reserves. and most of them love to have them in the u.s. dollar and euro. so that is not uncommon. but, when you siphon that off and you say there is going to be a way where we are not going to let you access that, then yes, they cannot use it to prop up the ruble. and more critically, to finance these violent missions. and if they are going to be struggling and to take over ukraine, it's going to be an expensive endeavor to that. and if they are not going to have access that cash, that is for sure going to put a dent into president putin's plans.

perhaps that is why he was so angry and reacted so irrationally with his announcement of putting his nuclear facilities on alert. hagar chemali, thank you so much. raf sanchez great explaining. not an easy topic. i really appreciate both of your coverage. the russian invasion of ukraine continues, right after this. invasion of ukrain continues, right after this.

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to have more than 134,000 volunteers. it has been conducted weekend training sessions for months. as president zelenskyy urges his people ever more now to take up arms. joining me now is ukrainian parliament member, corona. thank you so much for being with us. we appreciate you being with us, representative. can you tell us about how the culture of guns is in ukraine. and with this move is to bring together 130,000 people to take up arms. and whether that's consistent with ukrainians culture and guns. >> hello good morning. thank you for having me. so, if you ask me personally just 5 to 6 days ago, i was in the situation of firing guns or wearing arms people got so angry and --

that the resistant troops started being assembled. thank god that we had the guns that the government possessed. we were able to give them away. just two days before the war began, we voted for the legislation that would allow people to bear guns. so, this piece that we covered right now, it's illegal. as for the general strategy, we have a strategy to create territorial defense or resisting groups as a part of protection of the country a while ago. because we are at war with russia for eight years now, there are many people who were commissioned after the war and many people who were commissioned [inaudible] they wanted to train and protect.

so this is as a country. plus, addition to that, after what started, there was such a huge moral and flow of urged to protect our country. the people are basically forming alliance to get additional guns. >> representative, how did you get your gun? and what type of gun do you have? >> so, i have a gun that i got the first day of war. and when the government was arming all the members of parliament. we were first in the line to get our guns and to be able to motivate people to arm themselves. these guns were to protect ourselves for what's to come. >> what is the framing that you have described and mentioning at the top of this conversation.

about eight years about trying to train folks to get ready for this than this time? what would those trainings like? and then you go through one of those trainings? >> yes. i have gone through the weekend trainings. they teach you how to not fire gun. how to behave with. it had to make sure that you don't hurt anybody. how to be careful with it. however, right now, after i got my gun, for the last two or three days, i have been training here with my resistance crew. and we have been training altogether. well we trained to arm it, disarmament. to shoot it. distorted. assemble and disassemble it. and most of all, you just hold it. you will never have to use it. but once you have it you feel much more confident. especially when russians are

trying to get this for the first night in the road. they are getting anger and anger. and every time putin will raise their stakes we have preparation in kyiv of groups that will be coming in. >> and, who is in your resistance curve? how big is your resistance crew? >> well, i cannot tell you how big it is. but it is significant. it consists of my mps. my friends who fought in a war with russia. members of the kyiv local council members of the holster party. it's a significant course right now. they are all standing in kyiv. and we are all training together. we are ready to fight back if necessary. we are helping our army to patrol the streets.

i feel much more confident knowing that we are doing everything that's needed and possible to protect the city and our country. i have never fired the gun myself. >> representative, its men and women, about 50 50? >> no. it's less women. but most of them are men. but, women arm themselves as well. some of 20 people that we have in the ukrainian parliament nine are women. and all of them are armed. >> representative, thank you so much. i appreciate you taking the time, kira rudik, the member of parliament in ukraine. thank you so much for spending time with us this monday morning. already, more live coverage on the invasion in ukraine. that continues, right after

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his country, one of ukraine's biggest rock stars gave an impromptu concert on a bridge in kyiv. slovakia troop, lead vocalist of the band poking ellzey, told abc that his country is fighting for the billions of people who want to live in freedom, dignity and democracy. a former member of the

ukrainian parliament as well, he was a key member of ukraine's successful uprisings in 2004 and 2014, which turned several of his songs into protest anthems. slovakian joins us now from within ukraine. thank you for being here with us. >> thank you very much. >> i want to start, first off, when you gave that cancer, and as you have panned many a song that have become anthems. what's surprised you know the most about what you are seeing about what ukrainians were doing in the face of military incursion from russia. >> first of all, it is very important to say that we did this impromptu concert one day before the invasion. so everybody was still hoping that the inevitable will not come and then people came to this bridge in the center of the city, in the course of minutes. we never announced about it. we announced 40 minutes before.

and we have thousands of people in one hour there. the first time in my life. people were very enthusiastic and very united and when i said that we are all together, it helps them to pump up their mood. and still, we are together, and still we are pumping up that mood. and now in different stories and reasons. military getting refugees from dangerous places, working as a driver, not as a singer today. but together uniting people >> tell me about one of your protest anthems, why became so popular, what are some of the words in your anthem that has become so popular? >> in times like this, every song, with innocent lyrics that are not meant to be revolutionary or military they become so. there is a song which is called i do not give up, i will not

give up without a fly. which was a love song. but it turned out to be revolutionary or a song of resistance. and people saying all over the world. we have seen videos from european capitals yesterday. yesterday my friend, professor schneider from yale sent me a video. from yale university, singing the song. it gives me goose bumps. everybody is kind of helping ukraine now and supports us and it is great. >> maybe it is a love song for the country. showing that so many are now taking arms, and we were speaking with one of the members of parliament in ukraine, who was talking about the 130,000 people becoming part of taking up arms and joining these groups. >> absolutely. the interesting coincidence is that they are the one that i

brought to parliament. it was me who said that you need to be a member of parliament and then i kind of gave some start out to the career. >> wow. >> the most important thing now is that though people are enthusiastic and they are agreeing to fight, we need your help. i need the help of the civilized world. of western democracies. because what is going on now in ukraine, it is not fight for ukraine. it is fight for the future of mankind. the future of every country in the world. because i think that we are at the edge of something very important. it is a tipping point. if we win, i think democracy will prevail. all over the world for the future. and i'm not diminishing that fact. i really need it. and so everybody in ukraine is fighting with guns, with words, with everything. not only for the sake of our own country, but for the sank of the whole free world.

>> it is been a great weekend on that no. i know that you want more. with the number of countries have stepped up with not only arms, but also finances to help that ukraine. i want to finish with this, a little known fact about your political background. you actually ran the same time that zelenskyy, the current president had ram. can you tell us about him? >> yeah. first of all, i never ran for the office. i just joined the parliament because it was a time for me having my voice to help. and then i am still a musician, doing my job. i just did what i wanted to do, bringing people to parliament. but i think today, everybody is united around the figure of commander in chief. so we all are united. we support him, we support our army, we support our defense porpoises. and units, we are united. we are one team. led by our leadership.

and i only wish all of us that we have not only good luck, but that we have a lot of courage. and perseverance and grit. because that is what we need now. we need to fight until we win. it is not over. , it's a very difficult part of this. and we need more arms. we need more harsh sanctions on russia. we need no hesitation for our partners. all of us are ready to fight till the end, and we will. we will fight until the last boot of russian soldier is out. >> thank you so much. >> thank you, please stay with us. glory to ukraine and god bless america. >> thank you sir. more on the russian invasion of ukraine and the refugee crisis that it has created, right after this. fugee crisis that it has created, right

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already caused thousands of ukrainians and other foreign nationals to flee harms way. the united nations says that at least 368,000 ukrainians have sought refuge in neighboring countries. and european leaders are bracing for that number to rise to the millions. more now from nbc's kelly cobiella. but >> tonight, a humanitarian disaster at ukraine's borders. this train, packed with 1600 women and children, running from more. 29-year-old father maxime, relieved that his young family made it out. his pregnant wife said that the fighting was just 12 miles from their home. tens of thousands are fleeing every day from poland, to moldova. >> dangerous for my family. >> to hungary.

the student says that food is scarce and people are desperate. >> we have to fight our way each and every chain that we want to. >> european officials today said that 7 million ukrainians could be displaced inside of the country. fathers are sending wives and children to the border, while they stay and fight for their homes. >> we left that in kyiv and we'll be selling things and helping our heroes, our army. he might even fight, this little boy says. in border towns, volunteers are handing out food, warm clothing, blankets, donating supplies by the trainload to be sent to ukraine. >> thank you poland for welcoming us, this woman says. but we want our home back. if you can, please help us. >> nbc's kelly -- stay with. us much more ahead in our next hour. staying in kyiv. for now, ukrainian soldiers are managing to force all russian advances on the ukrainian capital city, but for how long?

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