united nations are saying only a few moments ago that vladimir putin ordered his order on nuclearforces shows that russian leaders are escalating the conflict in manner thatis escalating the conflict in manner that is unacceptable. he has just said that in a cbs interview so we will get you that clip in a short while. that is a significant move coming out of moscow and instant reaction to it. i want to just recap some of today s latest developments because officials say the country s at second city kharkiv remains and you can control despite heavy street fighting and gritting vehicles driving through. president zelensky has accused russia of targeting civilian areas including ambulances in a brutal campaign. earlier president zelensky ruled out holding talks in the belarusian capital minsk saying attacks had been launched from ukraine s a
russian forces are also reported to have surrounded the city of kherson. the strategic port lies on the black sea in southern ukraine near the russian controlled crimean peninsula. here you can see soldiers wearing white armbands patrolling the streets of kherson. the local mayor says russian forces have set up checkpoints surrounding the city. and here in the southern ukrainian port city of berdyansk tanks have been seen on the streets. also in the southern city of mariupol, there were strong words from the mayor who said. russian nazis seek the genocide of the ukrainian nation. we will fight until the last bullet. if they run out, we will use our teeth against the enemy that is moving towards mariupol. so russia is not in control of significant parts of ukraine s territory. russian troops are trying to surround kyiv and have continued to fire missiles and rockets on ukraine s second city kharkiv. rabbi moshe moskovitz spoke
and the european union has announced groundbreaking sanctions, including the sending of arms to ukraine. we ll have more on all that in newsday, but we start with this report from our correspondent nick beake in kyiv. explosions. there wasn t much talk of peace on the streets of ukraine s second city today. instead, kharkiv gave us a grim warning of more to come if this conflict doesn t stop. earlier, locals in kharkiv had opened their windows to see russian trucks rolling in. other vehicles in the sights of the ukraine military did not get far. and in the south of the country, this was said to be a drone strike on a russian convoy at an airport. but some appealed to the hearts of the russian soldiers to end this misery. what are you doing?
in here, in the east. in the north east, russian forces have also surrounded ukraine s second largest city of kharkiv, which has come under heavy shelling. now let us look at the capital kyiv. the russian goal is to surround the city. they have not been able do that yet, but they are now massing forces. this satellite image shows a massive russian military convoy approaching from the north, around a0 miles long. military experts say that is a worrying sign. this massive russian convoy is extremely indicative, because it shows how much they are pouring in to surrounding kyiv, in order then to take the city, but it is a huge target for ukrainian air power, if it still exists, and the fact the ukrainians are not attacking it, is, i am afraid, a very telling indication of the fact that the ukrainians may be running out of forces they can use in any sort of organised way. there is also evidence of a change in tactics more ruthless and more brutal. one sign of that is the weapons the russi
the ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky has addressed president putin directly in a new video clip, saying that russia will pay ukraine back fully for what it has done against the state. but moscow remains defiant its foreign minister, sergei lavrov, has this morning insisted that ukraine s aspiration to join nato is a threat to russian security. fighting continues in and around cities in eastern, southern and northern ukraine. kyiv remains under ukrainian control, but the southern port of kherson has become the first major city to be taken by the russians. the mayor there said russian troops had forced their way into the city council building. there were major blasts in kyiv overnight ukraine officials say they were caused by air defence systems striking down russian missiles. there was heavy shelling in the country s second city kharkiv and hundreds of people are feared dead in the port city of mariupol, after a sustained bombardment. officials say that russian forces are tryi