helicopters targeted a military airport outside kyiv. ukraine says several were shot down. the invasion was by air, sea and land. president putin, who insisted it would never come, warning that no one should try to stop him. translation: whoever tries to interfere with us or threaten our country should know that russia s response will be immediate and lead to such consequences that have never been experienced in history. hours after he spoke, this was the picture in cities across the country. air raid siren wails distant explosions images from ukraine s northern and southern borders showed moscow s forces streaming in. ukraine s beleaguered president, volodymyr zelenskyy, addressed the nation, dressed for battle.
duplicitous. a deliberate choice was taken consciously by president putin to launch a war when it was still possible to negotiate peace. 0k, these are pictures that i want to bring you from kyiv, as you can see, it is 5:30am there. we are getting reports of blasts in the capital from a number of sources, the cnn team in the city reported hearing two large glass, a third loud explosion in the distance. although thing the interfax ukraine newsagency reporting two explosions, similar sound to what we heard a day earlier. as we follow that, we are seeing a lot also on social media, people who are in the city also reporting on those blasts. no comment yet from ukraine s military, but as i get that, of course i will
david willis is in washington for us. we had a bit about from us presidentjoe biden on what he is introducing. talk us through a bit more at length on what people can expect?- what people can expect? well, toda the what people can expect? well, today the president what people can expect? well, today the president announced j today the president announced sanctions against banks and russian oligarchs, five banks, ten members of president putin s inner circle, not vladimir putin himself. those measures, aim does president biden put it, and cutting russia off, effectively, from the international or certainly the international or certainly the western financial system. but the threat of course, these sort of sanctions has been in place for some time, and has not deterred vladimir putin from invading ukraine. indeed, administration officials acknowledge it could take some time for some of these sanctions to actually have an effect. there is a lot of
george ilopes, an expert on international sanctions at the university of notre dame. good to have you with us, thank you so much forjoining us. what about that question that my colleague david was raising, and i think other people were, when president biden was speaking earlier. why not impose sanctions directly on mr putin himself? why don t they? i think that is because it is one of the last arrow left in the quiver, and has more political pain in doing that than real economic pain at the start. if i had to trade anything that was put in place between monday and today, i wouldn t trade any one of those sanctions, for putting sanctions, for putting sanctions personally on vladimir putin. there are ways in which the political act of sanctions will have deep personal consequences. i think we have seen that more so in notjust be sanctions on the oligarchs, but you will notice the ones on tuesday, out of the us, these are on family members of the oligarchs, and that has a particular bite.
went into overdrive, backing the assault, claiming ukrainian soldiers were surrendering en masse. a different mood here at one of russia s last surviving independent papers. to show solidarity with ukraine, tomorrow s edition will be in russian and ukrainian. the paper s editor, dmitry muratov, won last year s nobel peace prize. he believes that president putin has done irreparable damage to his country. translation: unfortunately, i have to say very bitter words. i think that today, february 2a, russia s future was taken away from it. 0ur peace loving russian people will now feel the hatred of the world, because we are starting a third world war in the centre of europe.