and people of russia will be hurt. so it s very important to keep this dialogue going at the united nations, expose the lies of russia, and ultimately bring international law against them as well as other means of resistance. general, i want to ask you, that adviser to the interior ministry of ukraine, his name is anton gerashenko, who said that the invasion has begun. also saying here that control centers such as air fields and military headquarters are being hit by the shelling. do you expect russia to take kyiv? i think i think that russia will move forward and try to take land that s currently occupied by ukraine. and we don t know what the extent of this operation might be, don. it it might be i aphased operation in which they try to draw the ukrainian forces and reserves east to block a breakout from donbas and then come in behind them from the north or up from the south with
russian forces have been targeting primarily military installations and air fields in the kyiv area. it s also worth noting we have not heard the capital siren system. not a single siren has sounded so far. that was a situation very much yesterday when the invasion began, we heard any number of booms and then finally the siren system kicked in. i was speaking to an official adviser to the mayor of kyiv. and he said that the siren system in the city is working but it is based on sort of an intelligence of whether ukrainian military are seeing but then they warn the people. again, it was a pretty loud boom and not a single siren telling people to get to shelter. rachel? nbc news correspondent erin mclaughlin reporting live from kyiv, thank, you we will come back to you as this continues to develop. as we continue to speak to aaron it is 4:40 in the morning and there is a curfew in place resulting in there being no went out on the street, natalie
white house divides the alliance and signals weakness to putin by refusing to let warsaw send fighter jets to ukraine. the white house blinked. do you see it that way? because the word from the pentagon is that they consider this to be escalating. this is again something i really don t understand. russia is on the war of extermination. they are trying to get rid of ukrainian people and ukraine as a country. they are standing and fighting with everything they ve got and we have capabilities that we could give them to help them defend themselves. this is not american troops, this is not even american aircraft. we are refusing to facilitate them getting to ukraine. ukraine already has mig 29s that they re trying and air fields and trained pilots. they could really use the help. i don t see why this is any different than giving them stingers or javelins. bill: let me probe that.
the child jumping on the bed and just happy. and smiling and laughing, just being a kid. it is definitely a good feeling. it is good to have wins in a situation like this. this was definitely a win. definitely a win. for more on what aaron is doing, go to cnnheroes.com. and cnn s special coverage continues right now. right now, major ukrainian cities under attack as russia sx expands its assault, taking significant fire. dnipro and multiple air fields in the west of ukraine. russian air strikes hitting a kindergarten and apartment building, the number of casualties that the hour still unclear. thank you for joining us again this morning. i m erica hill in new york.
thank you. we also want to show you some new video that we have this morning. this is of an explosion on an air field in lutsk, in the west of the country. and keep in mind, this is much further to the west than what we have seen so far in terms of russia attacks in ukraine. this is one of two air fields that were targeted in just the last 24 hours. joining us now is cnn military analyst retired colonel cedric layton. he s going to walk us through what we re seeing here. as we start with that, with the attacks on air fields, the bombardment in the west and then also in dnipro as we heard about from sam kiley, what do you make of that strategy on the part of russia? good morning. the big thing that the russians are doing here is attacking air fields, lutsk and ivano-frankivsk, close to the polish and slovakian and hungarian borders. what they re doing in my view is in this part of their campaign