with our allies in belarus. in the east, where russia said, no, we had tens of thousands of troops on the border with eastern ukraine for a long time. from the south, they are also coming in, the russian navy now in the black sea. they are coming on like this, and there was talk of a pincer movement to come and take kyiv. from what we see, they are steadily moving forward. yes, ukrainian forces are fighting back, but when you look at these shocking images coming from across ukraine today, i could only think of president zelenskyy time and again saying in recent weeks, thank you so much for the weapons and ammunition that western armies have been sending us, thank you so much for the training that western armies have been giving us. but when it comes to the fight, it will be only ukraine which will be doing this fight. from people you have spoken to in ukraine in the last 2a hours, what sticks in your mind? who have you talked to and the decisions and folks in peoples minds?
crimea and eastern ukraine, it s a long list, including the assassination of his critics, both inside russia and outside of our country. and it was inevitable. because he he believed that there would be no consequences, as it never happened before. because since his attack on ukraine in 2014, despite so-called sanctions, europe, primarily germany, increased the amount of russian gas they had been buying. so putin had a very simple calculation. i attack ukraine, two, three days, i m in kyiv, i install puppet government and we ll go back to the bargaining table, negotiating some new arrangements. and you know, all of this, of course, on the backs of the ukrainian people, who are dying and who are doing everything that they can to live in freedom and to reject this invasion. garry, i m just wondering, the west clearly has changed.
people have continued to sleep in shelters overnight. where i am, the western part of the country, a refugee crisis is only growing, the u.n. saying 365,000 people have already fled the country. we know those numbers will only rise as we continue to see that border become a choke point, some folks giving up on waiting in their cars and walking now ten miles to try to get into poland, alex. let s underscore the reason why president zelenskyy should not be going to any sort of talks along the border, the fact he, he has stated that vladimir putin has made him target number one. so it would be foolish in fact for him to get right there in the midst of russians, to have a face-to-face, honest discussion. so that also adds to the good reason why he should stay in kyiv. thank you very much, we appreciate, cal perry. back to moscow and keir simmons. keir, regarding these talks, are those hearing anything from the russian point of view? reporter: well, the russians have been saying they wa
of kyiv. this was exactly the feeling in the ukrainian capital before airstrikes started last night. there are some intelligence reports out right now that indicate a new air campaign could take place by the russians at any minute. but, we have basically heard not much in the capital right now. in other parts of the country though, fighting does continue in kharkiv the second largest ukrainian city there are still reports coming in of an exchange of fire between ukrainian and russian forces. we talked earlier about some of those battles that took place not only along the northern border between ukraine and belarus but also just about a 40-minute drive from where we are at right now. so the coming hours and days are going to be critical to see how this conflict develops. it doesn t appear at this point there is any intention by russian president putin to draw back troops or slow down this offensive. his goal is to capture the ukrainian capital of kyiv. we got some interesting numbers to
this, of course, is where people are evacuating to who fled capital. we even spoke to some people who are scared they were fleeing lviv, jesse. jesse: i can see you it s just a very warm glow, lucas. you look great there and i want you to stay safe. real quick though, these 160 or so russian missiles that launched into targets, were those successful hits? were they are radiculopathy? what was the accuracy of these missiles? well, it s a good question, brit. the russians don t use g.p.s. blue dot of the iphone that s courtesy of the u.s. military. the russians use a different system. apparently it s pretty accurate. they claim they targeted mostly military targets. the facts seem to bear that out. those missiles that you saw heading into different cities they didn t go downtown. you didn t see the hotels in kyiv and near western ukraine get hit. they hit ukraine airfield, storage sites, weapons depots, runways, president zelenskyy says over 100 ukrainians were