it is necessary to go out and drive this evil out of our cities, from our land. there have been protests around the world, but also in russia. with more companies pulling out of the country, life is getting harder. visa and mastercard have announced they are suspending their payment services, so doing business will get even tougher. and speaking in their language, ukraine s president has something to say directly to the russian people in whose name vladimir putin is waging this war. translation: | know that - many of you came to believe that ukraine allegedly hates you, allegedly will attack, allegedly will destroy. liars. liars talk about it every day on the russian television. it s theirjob to lie to you every day, but that shouldn t be your fate. russian promises of a temporary ceasefire weren t kept yesterday, which meant this evacuation centre
can. the united nations says nearly 900,000 people have left ukraine since russia launched its invasion almost all of them women and children. men aged between 18 and 60 are not allowed to leave the country. the refugees have been flooding into neighbouring countries like poland, romania, slovakia, hungary and moldova. 0ur europe correspondent lucy williamson is in the moldovan capital and sent this report. moldova s army was thinking about russian soldiers today. 30 years ago it was them facing russian troops, in the break away region. today, at the national war memorial moldova s president remembered those who died. in the shadow of a new war taking place across the border. translation:- across the border. translation: [111 , ., , ., across the border. translation: gs , . , ., .,
as well as forcing more people on the move. it s also sparking more resistance. ordinary ukrainians of all ages are getting ready to fight. i m a student, i m 21, so that s the legal age for buying your first gun or rifle here. it s unfortunate to see how many students instead of going to classes, are going to stand in queues to get arms. it s our country. i can t step back, you know. never, never. live or die, for sure. everyone every russian will die here. we will burn them. all of them. ukrainian forces say this shows their level of resistance, shooting down a russian helicopter. and the country s president has given another defiant rallying speech, with a message to his own people living under occupation. translation: you have to go on the offensive. l it is necessary to fight if there is an opportunity.
here s our reporter leigh milner. it s an interesting move by visa and mastercard, essentially what will happen is any cards in russia issued in russia won t work abroad and any foreign issued cards won t work inside russia either. the aim to make life a lot harder. it s as simple as that. now you may be wondering what if say you live in russia and you have a russian issued mastercard or visa? will it work? well, russia s major banks, including its largest lenders, verbank and the russia central bank, has said that all bank cards will continue to work. they ve been quick to reassure customers they ll be able to withdraw money, make payments, make transfers because they say all payments in russia are made through a national system. now we know that russia has been taking steps to increase the independence of its financial system for years, particularly after ties with the west deteriorated over the country s annexation of crimea in 2014. the reason this has happened in alfred kelly s
0ur security correspondent frank gardner looks at russia s military strategy and its progress so far. one week into this invasion, and this is how it s looking. the areas in red are the ones that the russian forces have taken. they re making slow but significant progress, moving into ukraine on three fronts. they ve taken a lot of casualties ukraine says over 6,000 russians have been killed. but ukrainian civilians are dying too, as russia unleashes some of its lethal firepower in heavily populated areas. there is talk of a war crimes tribunal when this all ends. russia s main effort is to capture the capital city, kyiv, here. it s the seat of the government and the centre of resistance. much of the armoured column that is moving down towards kyiv is composed of logistics, implying that russia is planning for a long haul, possibly even a siege of the city. meanwhile, here in kharkiv, the second city russian