you know, just on the streets, for example, what what s really jarring right now is that you have these uh you know, silence piercing series of explosions and gunfire. but other than that, it is extremely quiet. i mean, the sun is coming up here as as well as lviv. you can hear the birds chirping but it is incredibly quiet in the streets. no one is about. no cars. but of course, michael, many, many people not just in kyiv but across the country, are going to want to be fleeing and they already are. the ukrainian train service, put on special trains on friday to get people out of the capital. their goal was around 10,000 people. you saw those scenes. those those trains being mobbed. um, it is such a stark contrast to just a couple days ago, when so many ukrainians, including the president, did not believe that a war was going to happen. of course, that changed very quickly, um, with with this
as the as their efforts go on. and so, we know that tomorrow, in terms of monitoring what is happening, the president will convene a rare saturday-morning call with his national security officials and the vice president really to update him on what happens overnight here. michael. and just real quick. president biden manpla planning take sanctions a step further. tell us how that decision was made, what might they be? president biden will impose sanctions on russian president putin, himself. marking this really the highest-profile person that the president will sanction over russia s continued aggression in ukraine as it tries to deter but also punish russia as it seems that determent is not something that is really motivating at this moment president putin to stand down. and so, this comes after, um, both the eu, uk, and canada
good fight. president zelenskyy saying that hundreds of of russian troops have been killed. of course, as you noted, there have also been losses on the ukrainian side, as well. this is, as some of my colleagues have have said it is a david-and-goliath situation. but having spent a couple the past-few weeks here, um, there is a lot of confidence in this ukrainian military that has grown so much over the past eight yearers, since crimea was illegally annexed back in 2014. but that, then again, michael, we increasingly worrying signs that the fight is quick. coming to a head, you mention icranian forces we saw earlier just a few seconds augo, the scenes at the train station. can you give us a sense, paint a picture of the the mood there? i mean, how are people reacting? not the military, the people?
imposed or said that it would impose similar sanctions on president putin and russian foreign minister, sergey lavrov. and now, white house press secretary jen psaki, she told reporters today that it came about in the last 24 hours, really in concert with u.s. allies trying to make sure that they are un unanimous and really united on in terms of their punishment for president putin as the white house looks to ratchet up things. really, trying to, um, make russia pay a price even if it happens in the long-term here. michael. all right. jas jasmine wright at the white house. we going to take a quick break. when we come back, he played a president on television until he became one. coming up here on cnn newsroom, more on the leader now standing firm in the face of aggression from russia. stay with us. we ll be right back.
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