occupied. and i think we should do our best to protection the nation. to protect the nation against russian aggressor definitely bring the risk of your own life. everybody here all the old and young people truly understand that we have this risk. somebody has a choice to go on road, somebody had the choice to be the refugee in some regions of ukraine. but many, the biggest part make a decision to take the rifle and to protect the nation. i proud for these people. i proud for this country, and i proud to be ukrainian. and a lot of people are proud of ukrainians. right now people across the world are rallying behind ukraine and condemning vladimir putin and russia s war. up next, a look at some of the solidarity protests.
press conferences. right. that s clearly part of the strategy to have this united front. the concern now, though, is of course what will russia do to retaliate potentially? the u.s. is warning the cyber attacks ukraine has suffered could be headed our way. if russia were to cyber attack the u.s. how bad could it get? yeah. it could get i mean the capacity for him to do this certainly could be there, although we have many defenses that are both covert and overt in terms of protecting our critical infrastructure. there s certainly been a lot of work done to basically get our critical infrastructure ready. in the united states our critical infrastructure owns about 80% of it is owned by the private sector so it takes these public-private partnerships. i think the bigger concern in this atmosphere is that there s sort of a down swing impact to what russia is doing in ukraine that will impact one of the nato countries to the extent that there will be a question about
the mayor adding, the night will be difficult here as well in kyiv, but we will stand our ground, and we will win because god is with us. cnn s alex marquardt reported from a roof toop just moments after a blast hit. since then for the past 7, 8 minutes there has been this pulsing glow in the distance. you have to imagine that it is some kind of fire. it is a very eerie scene. it is a location we ve been looking at earlier today because there was a missile or a rocket that hit a residential building near that airport. and here is where things sf stand with the war entering a fourth day. russia s invasion is hitting, quote, stiffer expected resistance from the ukrainian m military. the russians are also suffering heavier losses in personnel and
you know, the intelligence suggests and what ukrainian officials suggest is that russian forces are, you know, gathering their strength and poised to an attempt an assault on the city. those big flashes, those glows you saw alex report on earlier, they re still taking place to a lezer extent now. but in the distance right behind me that is the kyiv area, there s a strategic air base located there. and that s a location where we believe russian special forces were initially deployed, one of the locations. they could have used to bring in more forces, more troops, more armor in order to surround the capital and stage that invasion of the ukrainian city here of kyiv. that did not happen for whatever reason. clearly they met a great deal of resistance on the ground. it s not clear who is in control of that region right now. but, you know, as the mayor of the of the local area said, you know, those big flares we
protesters taking to the streets in cities around the world, crying out against russia emphasis invasion of ukraine. this is tel aviv. in brussels protesters chanted their demands for peace outside the russian embassy. across india students gathered calling for russia to leave ukraine. and in d.c. protesters congregated again today in front of the white house as you see in solidarity with ukraine. joining me now cnn contributor jill dougherty in moskow where she served almost a decade as cnn s moskow bureau chief. and kimberley saint julian, a ph.d. student at the university of pennsylvania studying russian and soviet union history. she studied for a time in