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Into thursday. it could be that this was planned even obviously it s been planned but maybe even this was planned for a couple of days ago. all right. jill, i want you to stand by and perhaps you can help me out with this conversation. i want to bring our jim sciutto. jim, jill is reporting on what the russian president said earlier. and the ukrainian ambassador. you know there s this meeting live at the security council. i want you to respond to what the ukrainian ambassador is saying. he said it s too late to speak about de-escalation, that the unsc needs to help stop this war. he said it was the responsibility of this body to stop the war. the russian ambassador responding to him saying this isn t war, this is a special military operation in donbas. well, first of all, the evidence before our eyes and through our ears this morning is that it is not just an operation in donbas because of those explosions witnessed in the uk ....
But there are real questions now as to what to do with the people who live here. because this could quite quickly become isolated or cut off if indeed we do start to see a more forceful incursion coming in involving russian ground forces as well as cruise missiles and indirect fire. all right, clarissa, i want you to stand by. we ll get back to clarissa as well as matthew chance and our other folks who are there in ukraine. i want to get now to our kaitlan collins who is joining us from the white house. kaitlan, the president releasing a statement. i understand you have some new reporting but released a statement a short time ago, president pootin has chosen a premeditated war that will give a catastrophic loss of life and human suffering. russia alone is responsible for the death and destruction this attack will bring and the united states and its allies and partners will respond in a united and decisive way. the world will hold russia accountable. kaitlan at the white house, what ....
The president putting out a statement just a short time ago, and i m going to quote him here. he s saying that president putin has chosen a premeditated war that will bring a catastrophic loss of life and human suffering. russia alone is responsible for the death and destruction this attack will bring. and the united states and its allies and partners will respond in a united and decisive way. the world will hold russia accountable. and just minutes after the russian president vladimir putin announced what he called a military operation to protect donbas, minutes later cnn s teams began hearing explosions in multiple cities across ukraine including kyiv. take a look. who resist oh. i tell you what. i just heard a big bang right here behind me. i told you we shouldn t have done the live shot here. there are big explosions taking place in kyiv. cnn s teams are covering ....
This isn t war he says, this is enteration l terrorism. war is armies against armies but when armies attack civilians, this is international terrorism. the mayor called it a dangerous moment and immediately slapped a 35-hour curfew on the capital. how would you describe the spirit of the ukrainian people and your feeling about this? the spirit right now everyone is angry. i talk to the people. they don t want to leave. in this activity, much more energy to everyone and everyone understand don t want to leave, want to defend, defend our city. reporter: they are meeting this on slot with fortitude cleaning out their broken homes and just getting on with it. some have sent their families and children outside because they have known the russian military was honing in on this ....
And for those who have lived through this before, the war has awful echoes. it s terrible, terrible, granny says. her daughter interrupts. children are dying, women are dying, she says. this isn t war, this is destruction. this is genocide. they are just killing us, to get rid of us. they want to remove us from the surface of the land. so, they see their defensive these northern critical s. they re seeing constant weather here. they are nazis, he says. and, there is another attack. he waits to hear if there are landing close by. he was a swimming coach only a few weeks ago. now, everyone here is a bomb expert. the man taking us into the bunker was a tv producer. now, part of the army, keeping ....