capital watching as the lines of people were gathering to collect guns. they were handing out ak-47s from the federal government yesterday. while speaking to a local number of government, he was there to get to ak-47s, one for him, one for his wife. they were hunkering down in the suburbs. he told me that he was worried, that he is concerned, that he stressed, that he does not issued a gun, that he was going to go home and google it, figure out how it works. but he was prepared to protect his country, and that s something that i heard over and over here in ukraine with people ice i was speaking to. as we are expecting russians they are approaching on kyiv, and people are certainly preparing for the worst really what we ve seen so far, mostly the missile strikes that have happened here in the capital, in the capitol area have targeted military installations and air fields. is the ukrainian government being explicit
missiles. the primary missiles used last night that were based up in the belarus area where there were those 30,000 russian troops. medium range ballistic missiles also employed. cruise and surface to air missiles. they haven t yet moved into western ukraine. russian aircraft were involved in the assault last night. targets are air defense systems, barracks, ammo field and air fields. no amphibious assaults so far. no russian troops landing in odessa according to the ukraine defense minister. public means of communication is still active. the senior defense official told us it could change. the full scope of electronic warfare has not been employed by the russian forces. that could change.
strike a missile strike or artillery strike further to my south, not very far, a bit closer in to the center of town. the issue really now is whether or not the russians are going to extend their operations beyond what they say they re going to limit them to, which is to military targets, attacking what would be predictable air fields, communications centers, concentrations of artillery and so on, or whether they are going to extend their battle front and take on the ukrainian military who do have the capability for defense, who are claim something battlefield successes, but are also acknowledging there is fierce fighting in a number of locations north of kyiv in particular. real concerns that the ukrainian capital could be encircled or attacked. there are reports coming from there of this has been part of allegedly the russian planning according to british and american intelligence, suggesting a couple of weeks ago the plan was to effectively
an air missile campaign would be followed by, would soften the battlefield for a ground invasion with the intention of crippling this country, a good half to 2/3 of the country based on, again, the u.s. assessment that that is what is being looked for right now. right? the ground forces coming across. just one note about those sirens we ve been hearing in kyiv. the u.s. assessment has been that the targets of the russian aerial campaign, a shock and awe campaign it s been described to me by u.s. military officials, the targets would largely be military targets, things like air fields, aircraft. and as matthew chance was noting there s an air field quite close to the capital which is a ukrainian military air field. but also the possibility of hitting infrastructure. it was the u.s. assessment that russia would not attempt to bomb cities indiscriminately. however, with this important caveat, that from the u.s. perspective russian targeting is
hi ali, you can hear the sirens sounds. we have yet to hear further explosions. the sirens to indicate that this capital is under attack. they have been persuaded by hours of explosions, but it has been a while since we have heard the booms. the kind of booms that woke up so many citizens here in the capital. in the small hours of the morning. according to the adviser to the interior minister. crews, ballistic missiles, they have been launched on the capitol, striking military installations and air fields. no indication so far that civilian targets have been hit. but civilians have said that they broke up some of them to the windows being rattled by the sound of these explosions. it is absolutely terrifying and surreal to be standing here on this balcony alley in a flat