into tree lines or dispersing. that could be forced protection because the ukrainians have continued to threaten that convoy and its progress. more sanctions against vladimir putin. president biden announcing the u.s. is banning luxury rush slan i russian items like vodka and seafood. it will row evoke the most favo nation trading status. the fight moving to that part of the country despite the challenges the russians are having near the capital. reporter: we have seen strikes in the west of kyiv than we have seen thus far. i want to check in with our senior international correspondent. the convoy that the world has been watching for days that add m
shelling going on quite violently as we speak. and we do assess that the russians are beginning to make more momentum on the ground towards kyiv, particularly from the east, not quite so much from the north. i don t want to make too much of the fact that there s satellite imagery talking about this convoy moving off into tree lines or dispersing that could just be forced protection because the ukrainians have continued to threaten that convoy and its progress. essentially, bob, we don t see any progress by it to resupply and support operations from the south. but i d be careful making too much about this dispersal stuff. it feels like i missed one. reporter: the attacks on the west. thank you. our assessment is they struck a couple of airfields in the west. it s not like there hasn t been
a fortress. the pentagon says one russian approach to the city is about ten miles outside the city s center. satellite images show the convoy of russian tanks stalled outside kyiv for days has now largely dispersed, but it s unclear what the movement means for the capital. the people of kyiv would tell you they re under assault right now. there s russian bombardment and shelling going on quite violently as we speak. i don t want to make too much of the fact that there s satellite imagery talking about this convoy moving off into tree lines or dispersing. that could just be force protection because the ukrainians have continued to threaten that convoy and its progress. reporter: russia has falsely accused the u.s. of supporting experiments in ukraine with biological and chemical weapons. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy says it s a sign that russia itself intends to use such weapons. translator: this makes me really worried because we ve been repeatedly convinced if you wan
this is a shot from february 28, 40 miles long. now it has dispersed and the images we re getting are, you know, you can see ones and twos, three, four tanks. some of them making their way up into outside villages, dispersing, going into tree lines. getting in attack position according to the analysts we talked to. and that fits with the effort to go after kyiv. so, we re watching that closely. that s the movement we ve seen in the last 24 hours. shannon, i will send it back to you. thank you, brett. the mayor of warsaw, poland is asking for international help tonight dealing with many of the 2.5 million people who fled ukraine, many arrive in poland, most of them. chris hogan shows us tonight from warsaw. i want to save my child. the safety of 4-year-old yevi is the light at the end of the tunnel for her mother and
could take an unthinkable turn. ukraine s president needs new russian propaganda as a sign moscow chemical weapons might be unleashed. the president of the united states is warning president putin the price would be severe. we start this hour in kyiv with our cnn international correspondent matthew chance. what s if latest there? reporter: thank you very much. as you came to me, the air raid sirens here in kyiv have been blaring, literally just stopped as we went live. it indicates to us here there s a lot of anxiety, concern and a real threat when it comes to the ukrainian capital. we talked about that convoy that s been dispersing, gathering up to the north of the city for some days now, if not some weeks, and it s been hit hard by ukrainian forces, and so the russians appear to have taken the decision to disperse it, it s moved off to various other locations, some of the