let's go live to daniel sanford in moscow. this picture, daniel, seems to be changing all the time.is the latest on the convoy? >> if russia achieved anything with its theatrical convoy of more than 200 shiny white vehicles charging towards the ukrainian border carrying humanitarian aid, it managed to sow confusion. the president of ukraine had signed up for that, but russia then jumped the gun, started sending this huge column of trucks to the border. it seemed as if that aid was going to be allowed across, even first thing this morning, even if it might have been transferred into other trucks. but now the interior minister, who i should say can be -- speak slightly off message -- ended up saying there was no way he was going to allow putin's convoy into ukraine and perhaps more importantly the prime minister said the level of russian cynicism is boundless, first they delivered tanks and rockets and terrorists who fire on ukraine and now they're delivering water and food. so clearly there are senior members who are quite against this convoy. whether that means that none of the aid

we can speak to our correspondent daniel sanford. daniel is in moscow for us. we got the picture up of the location of where the trucks have headed off from. they must have made their way towards luhansk. what sort of distance does it have to go? >> it's not very far. it's typically less than an hour's drive in normal time. the problem is that there's a kind of double front line between the border and the city of luhansk. the area around the border is controlled by the pro russia gunmen. they're in control of the border points and around area it. luhansk is controlled by pro russian gunmen. in between those two areas controlled by pro russian gunmen, it's a line of ukrainian government forces. they've basically cut that road from the board torder to luhans. if that goes up the board tore li -- board tore lirder to luhans going to bump back to the territory. they're under the red cross convoy. red cross has nothing to do with it now. ukrainians have a decision to make about the convoy. will they stop it and say it can't proceed? what kind of reaction will that p

. >>> now daniel sanford is in moscow for us. daniel, how do you read this? seems russia has lost patience. are they ready to contemplate a direct confrontation with ukrainian forces over this convoy? >> i think nobody really knows the answer to that question. nobody is quite sure why it is that it became so important for russia to get a significant chunk of this convoy. it's not the whole convoy of more than 200 vehicles. looks like 70 or so have driven across the border without permission from the ukrainian government. the question is why is russia decided to go for that? obviously it will explain tensions. you already quoted the remark from the head of ukraine agency saying it's direct invasion. though as you say, he did go on to say they did not want to attack the convoy. they didn't want to provoke reaction from russia. russians will say they want to get the aid into luhansk which everyone agrees is a desperate situation. why it is that russians decided to go ahead with this without the international economy of the red cross without the agreement isn't c