tomorrow. nevertheless in particular if they can work on the swift banking circumstance and get them pulled out of that, that should get some sort of impact, trace. trace: that s why i asked you because i knew there d be great insight. thank you. we appreciate it. in the meantime here to talk more about that sanctions is economist and former naval officer john jordan. thank you so much for coming on pistol looking at live pictures. this is kyiv, this is coming west out of kyiv, the capital city. what they are doing is going toward a couple of places. one is lviv as one of our reporters on the ground said. they are going there because the mayor of lviv said to them, we will take in refugees. we will give you some of our college dormitory because apparently even though it is in ukraine, it is considered a safe haven. the other aspect of that as a lot of these people might be going to poland, and poland is expecting according to intel as many as one 25 million refugees
0 ukrainians are prideful, passionate, strong people. the russians do not have that will to fight but you cannot imagine the conflict people are going to having to kill their fellow native russians in ukraine. trace: we have to go. thank you all for coming on. thank you. trace: continuing coverage right now. the sovereign nation of ukraine this morning under fire as russian forces unleashed a violent and massive military attack. at this very hour, explosions can be heard rattling in at least three ukrainian cities be air raid sirens blast across the capital city of kyiv paid moscow claims it s already knocked out ukraine s air defenses. the country now under martial law and its only beginning a war we ve been fearing for months. good morning, everyone. it s trace gallagher continuing live team coverage of the crisis in eastern europe. it s now midnight here in los angeles, 10:00 in the morning in kyiv. dark morning for people there and around the world. for months we were told th