you just saw and heard. reporter: yeah, in the last hour, jake, we ve had three or four times low-flying jets coming down over this important city. essentially it s the route up from the long russian-occupied peninsula of crimea. we ve seen since this morning s invasion began those armored columns moving north. they moved north through here very fast actually. there s an ambulance just rushing in the dark around behind me here. those air strikes seemed to drop those aircraft seemed to drop bombs. we heard some thuds in the distance after they have flown low over this town which is trying to enforce a blackout. it s sort of startling to go around a town looking for the hostels that we understand have taken in injured and they have closed their outer doors so they can t be spotted from above. quite a chilling scene here. as we came into the town it seemed that the russian forces that were initially south of the river that this town sits on were fighting hard for a key
right now. again, this is the southwest part of the capital. we heard a large blast. and then, since then, for the past seven-eight minutes, there has been this pulsing glow in the distance. uh, you have to imagine that it is some kind of fire. it is a very eerie scene. this city is, right now, completely quiet. it has been quiet for quite some time and then every so often, you that silence is pierced by some sounds of of fighting or war, whether it s gunfire or thuds in the distance. this was an explosion that was relatively close by. we don t know what the target is but that is the general direction, general location of of kyiv s second airport. um, it is a location that we have been looking at earlier today because there was a missile or rocket that hit a residential building near that airport. um, and and that was the the main incident today, i would say. it has been, otherwise, a relatively quiet day.
carcassonne and going to odessa. here in the kyiv a desperate situation as they wait for what they consider an inevitable russian invasion. the streets are empty here. throughout the night there has been the thuds of artillery shells and the flashes lighting up the sky. at gun power occasionally. it has fallen quiet at the moment but people say that is just a matter of time. it is moving many directions as we have seen president zelenskyy reached out, again, urging more support and more help. but very clearly we heard from secretary of state blinken today there d be no support at the way the ukraine ants want to. no no fly zone and it is taking far too long to get the weapons into this country that they so badly need. the precarious situation right now one which people feel it s going to get worse. again the humanitarian situation on the ground getting worse as well. 1.2 million people have fled in the last nine days. it is a worrying strain of
until monday morning as russian troops advance on the capital from all directions. alex marquardt is back with me. last hour you said from the north, south, east, and west that troops are making their way, russian troops to kyiv. have you been hearing any other kind of activity? reporter: yeah, we have, fred. we have indications now that the sun has set that this is probably not going to be a quiet night. just in the past few moments we have heard air raid sirens going off in the capital, the loud, very familiar thuds and low rumbles of explosions in the distance coming from the north and from the east, we believe. we ve also heard gunfire coming from those directions directly behind me as well. this was essentially right on cue as the sun had set after what had been a relatively quiet day. we are now hearing ominous sounds from the kremlin and from the russian ministry of defense. they had claimed that they had
minutes there has been this pulsing glow in the distance. you have to imagine that it is some kind of fire. it is a very eerie scene. this city is right now completely quiet. it has been quiet for quite some time, and every so often that silence is pierced by some sounds of fighting or war, whether it s gunfire or thuds in the distance. this was an explosion that was relatively close by. we don t know what the target is, but that is the general direction, general location of kyiv s second airport. it is a location that we ve been looking at earlier today because there was a missile or a rocket that hit a residential building near that airport. and that was the main incident today i would say. it has been otherwise a relatively quiet day.