good morning, everybody. it is sunday, february 27th. i am lindsey reiser, we have a team of reporters and analysts following the very latest for us this morning. from moscow, to brussels, to poland. moments ago, in a televised address, russian president vladimir putin praised russian special forces we said quote, heroically fulfill their duty in ukraine. this news comes, just hours after we are learning russian forces have reportedly entered kharkiv in northeastern ukraine, according to a ukrainian official. russia has also unleashed a new wave of attacks on ukrainian air fields, and the fuel facilities as the fighting continues for a fourth day. ukrainian forces appear to be holding on to the capital city of kyiv, despite the overwhelming might of the russian army. massive explosions lighting up the skies south of kyiv this morning as the fighting continues unabated. i want to show you some video here, a homemade molotov cocktail being thrown at a russian truck, rolling through a cit
nato, while it is not a member of the european union, they stand firmly behind ukrainian resistance to this russian aggression. it remains unclear what actually came out of that meeting, whether there were any concrete deliverables that came out of that. the symbolic nature of that having the three leaders for the first time since this war began enter into kyiv to meet with zelenskyy was a strong message that the whole world took note of, max. biden s message presumably coming along to brussels will be that there s wider unity, not just amongst those east european countries but across the western world in dealing with russia. reporter: that s right. this is something that the white house has touted repeatedly, that russia s aggression backfired. it has reinvigorated the nato alliance. this was the exact opposite of what vladimir putin had wanted. he wanted nato to become
remember when people say we re going to rely on more new nuclear 25% of the world does make uranium concerned russia so this is a deeply complex situation and a reminder that when you impose sanctions there is a blow back collateral damage affecting the weather is it were within an oil and gas but in many other commodities are being affected and it is inevitable that both of the world economy will be hit, some people are predicting a recession in the european union and in the uk and prices will go higher. every extra pound you spend on filling up your car with petrol and diesel is a pound you can t spend the rest of the economy so very serious economic consequences. mil the economy so very serious economic consequences- consequences. all these moves you have seen in consequences. all these moves you have seen in the consequences. all these moves you have seen in the last consequences. all these moves you have seen in the last few consequences. all these moves you have seen in t
he s also expected to attend a european council summit. natasha joins me from nato headquarters. what more do we know about this trip? yeah, anderson, so hastily arranged trip by the president to brussels scheduled for next week. he will be meeting with nato leaders on thursday, it seems, and then he will also be meeting with eu leaders that same day. all, you know, to have consultations about what is going on in ukraine, obviously, and the big question that has lingered in the minds of everyone here over the last several weeks, and particularly over this last week, has been what happens, of course, if russia does launch some kind of provocation against a nato member. what happens if even if inadvertently a russian missile, for example, lands in nato air space? and that has become all the more acute over the last several days when we saw that these russian missiles did land very close and were striking targets very close to the polish border. so, one of the main things they will be
implicit reproach to himself because in putin s russia you get jailed for 15 years just for calling an invasion an invasion. and if you stand against putin in an election, you get poisoned or shot. precisely because ukraine and russia have been so historically close, that he has been terrified of the effect of that ukrainian model on him and on russia. and he s been in a total panic about a so-called color revolution in moscow itself. cnn has reporters following the latest developments here in the states. we have more from the white house, and kiley atwood at the state department. to you first, arlette. president biden head to brussels next week for a nato summit that s being called an extraordinary gathering in light of russia s invasion of ukraine. today on cnn, the former president of ukraine said that biden should visit kyiv while he s in europe as a show of unity. what is the white house saying about that tonight?