in ukrainian families into, and invited them into their homes . reporter: complete strangers. absolutely. reporter: do you think the exodus will get worse in the days and weeks ahead? i m afraid so. reporter: on the first day of the invasion, your president closed moldova s air space so there is no commercial air travel right now. why did you take that decision? we took that decision to protect civilian air space. so we received request that indicated that there may be military operations in the vicinity of the moldova air space. who sent the request to restrict your air traffic? it was a request from the russian federation. many people may not know there are actually russian troops on moldova territory. has there been any communication with those forces? indeed. we have a separatist region on
out how to unload the gas from the lng tankers. i want to talk about this new york times reporting that some white house officials say cornering putin could cause him to lash out. he s ratcheting up in an alarming way, has ordered strategic weapons to be combat ready. you were briefed on all of this. how concerned should we be about the prospect of a nuclear attack in this conflict? we should always be concerned not only about russia, about china, every country that has a nuclear weapon is a concern. putin has taken that to another level. he knows that the united states nuclear arsenal is always ready. always available. the question here is what would trigger a nuclear war? we want to stay away from that. we don t want to go that far. we are seriously pushing on the sanctions, a very serious threat
the small country road is now lined by piles of rubble, burned out cars and a deep crater where a russian missile struck. the attack caught on a village security camera hit the home of igor in the small village of mykolaiv, now they re gone, killed in an instant. five family members and a friend, including his 12-year-old daughter who was disabled in an accident with a drunk driver. his wife just 46 years old and son-in-law, the father of his grandchildren. [ speaking foreign language ] . reporter: today, black eye and face bruised, he picked through the debris trying to
who you met right there. she told us, this is our land. we will sit in the basement but we re not going anywhere. this is our home. we will rebuild. pam? all right, thanks to alex. there is a lot to unfold here. joining us now to walk us through it is colonel cedric leighton. what are the big areas of concern right now for ukraine? pamela, one of the big things to look at here is the overall map and this is probably the easiest way to see what s going on from a strategic perspective. i draw your attention to what s happening around kyiv right now. i will circle it but take it off because i want people to see the russian forces are really close to kyiv here and here. and this becomes a very big issue because right now it gives them the possibility to encircle kyiv as a primary target. it is basically the center of gravity as the military folks would say. that means it s the most important point to go after.
blinken has said there are reports of possible russian war crimes and says washington may hit moscow with its biggest economic blow yet. we are talking to our european partners and allies to look at the prospect of banning the import of russian oil. here are other developments unfolding in the crisis. the united nations says more than 360 civilians are confirmed killed in ukraine and it concedes the real number is likely much higher. this ukrainian boy frightened and overwhelmed is one of at least a million refugees who have crossed into poland. we don t know anything else about his circumstances. i ve gotten a lot of viewer messages about this little boy right here. and minutes ago senior u.s. defense officials estimated that russia has fired 600 missiles and 95% of its amassed combat power is now in ukraine.