this is bbc news. our top stories: explosions are heard across the ukrainian capital, kyiv, with unconfirmed reports a russian aircraft has been shot down. this has been shot down. comes as russia s invasion enters this comes as russia s invasion enters a second day. ukraine s president says 137 citizens have been killed in violent so far. the eu is the latest in the west to take sanctions on russia, targeting its financial, energy and transport sectors. it s commission president says it is a watershed moment. putin is trying to subjugate a friendly european country, and he is trying to redraw the maps of europe by force. he must, and he will fail.
the times reports that while in a role in saint petersburg, putin granted timchenko an export license and the oilman went on to co founder gunver. by 2007, around 30% of russian oil experts went through that company committed reports. and these personal connections remain. here is timchenko at putin s birthday in 2019. 0r boris rotenberg, a childhood friend of putin and co owns a vast construction company. the times tells us they attended a judo training and are known to still spa. the third person named by borisjohnson, well, that is boris rotenberg s nephew igor. he controls a drilling company. the telegraph reports he is said to be putin sjudo partner. the uk says he has strategic significance to putin. and this is what these new sanctions mean in practice. any assets they hold in the uk will be frozen. the individuals concerned will be banned from travelling here, and we will prohibit all uk individuals and entities from having any dealings with them.
shows the david and goliath situation whereby apparently according to reports the ukrainian security officers there refused to surrender to a russian warship. there are various other sort of colourful remarks that came out of that, but itjust remarks that came out of that, but it just shows remarks that came out of that, but itjust shows really we are getting the detail, it is making it all that little bit more real now. making it all that little bit more real now. and it takes a little while more real now. and it takes a little while to more real now. and it takes a little while to get more real now. and it takes a little while to get this - little while to get this confirmed as well. i was saying ukraine by the defence ministry, and this is not confirmed, i want to underline that, they were saying russia already lost around 800 men, thatis already lost around 800 men, that is reported by the key independent. 0ur correspondences it is very hard to verify, but had president puti
us. we will also speak to george lopez, an expert on economic sanctions at the university of notre dame in the us. i asked university of notre dame in the us. iasked him university of notre dame in the us. i asked him why president putin wasn t being targeted personally. it putin wasn t being targeted personally- personally. it has more political personally. it has more political pain personally. it has more political pain in - personally. it has more political pain in doing l personally. it has more i political pain in doing that than economic pain at the start. if i had to trade anything that was put in place between monday and today, i wouldn t trade any one of those sanctions for putting sanctions personally on britain. there are ways in which the political act of sanctions can have deep personal consequences putin. we have seen it more so in not just the sanctions on the oligarchs, but you will notice in the ones from tuesday out of the united states, these are family memb
how the west response to putin. here is one example. we are sanctioning three very high net worth individuals, gennadi tim schenker, boris rotenberg, and igor roternberg. borisjohnson calls them putin s cronies. certainly they are very rich. gennady is worth an estimated $22 billion. bill browder, was the largest foreign investor in russia, argues that to target them make sense. everybody who knows russia probably knows putin properly. they ll know what will stop from doing terrible things, that is going after his money and to go after his money to go after the 50 top oligarchs. these oligarchs amassed huge wealth in the 1990s as the soviet union broke apart. state assets were given to new companies, and in exchange forfunding politicians these men got shares in those companies. they also, as the financial times puts it, got unfettered access to the corridors of power. and in some cases their wealth directly connected to putin.