but the intensity is still there. let s go to kyiv now. there was a huge explosion overnight this cbs correspondent ran for cover after a railway station was hit. this injured man was carried out by rescue workers. we don t yet know about other casualties. let s show you these pictures be aware they have been released by russia s defence ministry. they appear to show russian troops entering the kyiv region though the location is unkown. you can see they re moving in from russia and belarus, coming closer to the capital. chernihiv that s in the middle there is two hours from kyiv. there have been attacks there too. it s had heavy shelling, this huge explosion caught on camera. it s still under ukrainian control. and this is also in chernihiv the aftermath of a strike
willing to take that risk. it s a moment to pause and consider what any of us would do in that situation. let s go to kyiv. as people across this country are bracing for what will happen tonight. matthew chance is there. i know one of the things that s been happening here is understanding when reports come in and pictures come in, what s real, what isn t, trying to sort through that. what are you seeing right now here just after 8:00 our time? well, you are right. it s very difficult to get a picture of what s real and what s not. particularly when you re in these remote locations where the action and the fighting isn t necessarily taking place right in front of us. which is why this morning when i heard that an air base just outside of the ukrainian capital had been taken by russian forces, i got my crew and we headed up there. and when we got there, we found troops there who we assumed were ukrainian troops.
invasion intensifying around the world, most specifically inside russia where police detained 6,000 demonstrators. the world by and large standing with ukraine. landmarks in new york, paris, london, elsewhere showing blue and yellow in support. many european countries closed their airspace. the european union has closed its airspace to russian planes. later this morning, president biden will hold a call with u.s. allies to discuss the response to russia s invasion moving forward. let s go to kyiv where a lawmaker told us russia is unleashing hell. yaroslav is chief foreign affairs correspondent with the wall street journal . can you give us a sense of what it has been like in the city the last 24 hours? reporter: actually, it s been quieter in the last 24 hours than the previous day. the previous two nights was
the russians to stay on our land. also in the south is odesa, a port city on the black c. today a ship sunk off its coast after an explosion. residents are preparing themselves as russian troops near. one man spoke to the bbc. patrolling the street with some of my neighbours, and we heard about eight explosions above us, so things are going on here actually, but we are certain that the centre of the city is fully barricaded. there is a lot of militia travelling around the city. there is a lot of locals who are joining those forces to protect their homes as well. the spirit is pretty strong. you can feel that definitely, but the intensity is still there. let s go to kyiv now. there was a huge explosion overnight people ran for cover
sector. and there s a reason for that. because this would just not get the gas section, this would hit oil prices, you gotta remember, when it comes to oil prices, united states at the end of last year took 7% of the oil from russia. european powers, the united states. it s exactly why it took a while before all of the nato countries were on board with all of these sanctions, and that s why it s took in a while since germany decided to cancel the nord stream 2 pipeline, because the fact is, the world relies on a lot of the energy that it gets from russia. also talking about the ukrainians calling for the removal of russian from the swift system. that is the society for worldwide into her bank financial transactions. that is how world trade is done. if you can t be on the serve system, anybody who was ever sent a wire, you know exactly what that is, if you can t be honest with system, you can trade with the world. let s go to kyiv, the capital of ukraine, where those sirens continue to