mounting. they show tracks going to try to evade some of these sanctions. it s going to be hard to inphysical. kate? evan, thank you very much. coming up for us, the united states just accused russia of us using weapons and bombs against ukra ukr uk the ukraine that are banned.
breaking news we re following. two, two massive explosions sit up the sky near kyiv. vladimir putin s full-scale assault on ukraine driving refugees to the polish border. correspondent arwa damon is on the scene for us along the border. give us the latest, arwa. reporter: well, wolf, we are still seeing the buses arrive pretty much nonstop from the ukra ukrainian-poland border to what s become a makeshift reception center. a lot of the people who you see waiting outside right now are actually volunteers. they have come here holding signs. offering free rides, free accommodation. a warm place to spend the night. because frankly most of these people coming off the buses are
of it testifies. and a community turning nightmares into dreams. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us on this wednesday night. just after the president s state of the union address where he said ukra vladimir putin will pa price, the united states has tightened the economic chokehold on russia, announcing new sanctions on moscow for what president biden calls putin s war of choice. and the justice department launching a new task force to go after putin s inner circle of billionaire russian oligarchs. meanwhile, the russian military has intensified its bombardment of major cities across ukraine, while its 40-mile convoy headed towards kyiv remains stalled due to food and fuel shortages, a senior u.s. defense official telling us the russians are
different curfews on the streets, no one is allowed to leave because of those civilian defense units and the military regulars are searching for russian saboteurs that are trying to orchestrate similar types of attacks that kind of has seen and kharkiv saw yesterday morning. jack crosby describing it for us. jack, so happy to see you safe and well. we re going to check back in. thanks so much. and that right there is going to do it for me today. i ll be coming to you from washington, d.c., tomorrow for special coverage of the state of the union along with the russian invasion of ukraine. hallie jackson is next. of ukra. of ukra. hallie jackson is next well, he may have friends, but he rides alone. that sy, right there! we re literally riding together. he gets touchy when you talk about his lack of friends.
belarus. so, the ukrainians believe that they ve held the russians up, that they need to resupply and that s why they re bringing those weapons into belarus. of course, that could spell some pretty bad news here for the ukrainian capital in the next couple of weeks, in the next couple of days if the russians do receive reinforcements through belarus. by the way, victor, ukrainians also saying that they believe that the russians also massively deploying more weapons to crimea as well, to obviously fortify that invasion that they have in the south of ukraine as well, victor. well, let s head south. ukra ukrainian forces say they ve destroyed a large russian ship in the southeast at this russian-occupied port. you spent some time in that city. what s your understanding of how big a deal this would be? reporter: it s a massive deal, and if you look at the video that we re seeing right now, there of the port, you can see that ship just completely up in flames and there seemed to be some