this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. i m shaun ley. the ukrainian capital, kyiv, is coming under further missile attacks, with residents forced to spend another night sheltering. president volodymyr zelensky has said russia will try and storm kyiv tonight. his spokesman says ukraine is ready to talk about a ceasefire and peace. in new york, russia has vetoed a united nations security council resolution censuring it s invasion of ukraine. this is the scene live. it s as the us joins the uk and eu in bringing sanctions against president putin and his foreign minister sergey lavrov.
and it has an air of normalcy for a minute, people were out and happy to be going through the rituals of daily life while there was a break in the curfew, but once they got the supplies they went back home and there are air-raid sirens sounding every now and then. a moment ago you just heard air-raid sirens? yeah, and it s not clear why we are hearing those air-raid sirens here. one of the running theories is maybe it s connected to the system nationally, and maybe when they go off where richard is they are going off here because we are more than 350 miles from kyiv. while i think this nation is shocked at the scope of this war, it would be a real development if russians were to put planes in the air or trying to do something so close to the border with nato and the border with europe, the european union.
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force, and they are there to assist with any evacuation in assistance for americans coming across the border, and there has not been a need to do that, and there has not been a large outflow of citizens from ukraine. and those that have come by in a vast majority, they did not need assistance, they made plans and know where they are going and good transportation available to them in poland. that s spokesperson, john kirby at the pentagon. i want to bring in a guest, currently a global fellow with the wilson center. thank you so much for being here. let s talk about what kirby was just saying. don t assume he said that because russia s military has been slow that it will stay slowed. there are also worries now with the number of troops currently trying to get down to kyiv that russia is going to try and siege
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