earlier ortiz, the correspondent ilia katrinka spoke with my colleague, den hawkins, here's what they discussed. the amateur videos of the fighting that's already going on in the residential areas of kiev. the began to appear as it became dark over the ukrainian capital. but there are quite a few developments when it comes to what's actually in these videos. and this is very worrying and troubling because we do actually see crossfire last night. it was mostly gotten fire when, when i'm talking about the cross bar here, it could actually be felt that these are either artillery rounds or possibly even missile launchers. and this is indeed much more worrying. although i do want to point out that we cannot verify their authenticity. however, now from the reports that we're getting from the locals and on social media, it has become abundantly clear that fighting is now happening inside of which is the crating capital at the city of almost $3000000.00 inhabitants. and we know that is divided by the nipper river. the russians have closed in on the city from the western side. and there is a m

let's our cross live to our correspondent ilia katrinka. you are outside the ministry of defense here in the russian capital . you know more than i do, bring us up to speed worry hello there. well, before i tell you about what exactly we heard from the russian army spokesperson, mister connor sank of i'd like to give you the latest updates from the kremlin because dimitri pascall, for president latimer, potent press, secretary has been talking to the media. and he, i got a number of key points from his speech. first of all, the when he prescott said that the word occupation should not be used when referring to what the russian army is currently up to in ukraine. besides this, mr. pess. gov was asked whether vladimir putin is ready to hold direct talks with the president of ukraine bull demur zalinski. now at his answer was that at this is an option if kiev is ready to talk to moscow about her and the concerns by the russian side, about that the security in the region. now uh, besides this, mr. pest. gov said that russia now may be in troubl

high alert also connects missile warning systems and defense against attacks from space and his ilia katrinka has more well after the russian side kept hearing pretty much every day. if not every hour as a result of what's happening in the ukraine. how the nato members steps. sorry, states are sending more and more troops and hardware to the alliance nations that share a border with russia. right? we heard the president of lot of our potent order, the russian strategic forces to be ready for any kind of scenario unfolding. indeed, russia sees this as a massive threat. however, when the white house press secretary, john saki was asked to what her reaction to the statement by vitamin was she pretty much said that a, it's actually a made up threats by the russian president. this is really a pattern that we've seen from president couldn't, through the course of this conflict, which is manufacturing threats that don't exist in order to justify further aggression and the global community. and the american people should look at it through that prism. nato secretary general against oldenburg, who was