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00:00It was as sudden as it was brutal and relentless.
00:04Ukrainians woke up to find themselves plunged into the midst of war.
00:08Explosions and air raid sirens ringing out here in Kiev and cities across this country
00:13as Russia launched a full-scale invasion on multiple fronts in the early hours of this morning,
00:19firing missiles at key military infrastructure sites.
00:22This evening, its troops are reported to be advancing from the north onto Kiev.
00:27Other cities that have been targeted include Odessa, the major port on the Black Sea,
00:32and there are reports of hundreds of explosions in Mariupol tonight,
00:36which is located close to Russian-controlled territory.
00:39But also in towns like Lutsk in Ukraine's west,
00:42it shows the breadth of the assault from the Russian military.
00:47Ukraine has declared martial law, urging citizens to take up arms to defend their country.
00:52There are reports of heavy casualties already on both sides.
00:56And as the west threatened to cripple Moscow's economy with devastating sanctions,
01:01an ominous warning from Vladimir Putin to any country trying to interfere.
01:06You will face consequences you have never seen before, he declared.
01:10The dawn chorus that no one wants to hear, air raid sirens in Kiev,
01:21signaling that the full-scale invasion of a European country in the year 2022 was well underway.
01:27This was Antonov International Airport, 15 miles from the centre.
01:38And these were Russian helicopter gunships.
01:41This airfield is now being used to bring in the troops that will storm the capital.
01:45This was the airbase at Melitopol, in the southeast.
01:54Russia's strategy?
01:55Dominate the airspace by preventing the Ukrainian air force from using it.
02:01And this was in the far west, about 100 miles from the Polish border.
02:05So much of this large country is under attack, that the best option for escape from the capital,
02:14population 3 million, is still to head west, towards Poland, in the traffic jam from hell.
02:23At the central bus station, a mayhem of desperate departures in a year defined by them.
02:29The first Kabul, now Kyiv.
02:33These people are running away from the Russian soldiers, knocking at the doors of the capital.
02:39Running to any bus that will take them, always west.
02:43Now imagine doing this with your kids.
02:47Your whole past, present and future suddenly reduced to one suitcase and one burning question.
02:54Can you make it onto that bus?
02:56Where's this bus going?
02:57Well, they're trying to get to Poland.
03:00Yeah, and fly from Poland.
03:01But to be honest, I can't see it happening.
03:04So we don't have any buses to take us anywhere.
03:08Are you scared?
03:09I'm okay for now.
03:11I'm alive.
03:12But you never know what will happen, like, in five minutes.
03:16Can you imagine living in a Ukraine run by one of Vladimir Putin's puppets?
03:21That's a disaster, of course, no.
03:24But that's what might happen.
03:26We hope no, but I don't know.
03:28I don't know what's going to happen, to be honest.
03:32The Russian tanks keep coming.
03:34These were filmed a few hours' drive north of Kyiv.
03:38Soon they will enter the city.
03:40And this was the man who dispatched them overnight.
03:43In Moscow today, seemingly relaxed, despite all because of the chaos that he's unleashed,
03:48at a business conference dealing with the fallout of sanctions.
03:52The denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine, that was his outrageous justification for all this.
04:19The first based on a lie, the second a euphemism for invasion.
04:25He may feel that he's on the side of history, fulfilling his legacy as Vladimir the Bold,
04:29the modern czar who is resurrecting the Russian Empire by occupying Ukraine.
04:34But not everyone in Russia has bought into his mission.
04:39This was an anti-war demonstration in St. Petersburg, Putin's beloved hometown.
04:44Could the invasion create a backlash against him?
04:47Early days.
04:48But that was certainly the hope of this man, an unshaven and distraught-looking President Zelenskyy addressing the Ukrainian people.
04:56He appealed to their courage, summoning the millions of citizen defenders,
05:17telling them to take up arms, imploring them not to panic.
05:21So how's that going?
05:23Thanks to the invasion, it's rush hour every hour with the clock ticking, also at the main train station.
05:29The trains in red are the ones cancelled because the destinations have come under attack.
05:35Outside we find Irina, who's been unable to buy a train ticket and has packed her entire existence onto one cart.
05:41What's your message to Vladimir Putin today?
05:45Vladimir Putin, please, go out to our country.
05:50Go out, go out.
05:51We don't want you.
05:53We don't want war and we don't want you.
05:55But if you come, it will be very bad because I know our army, I know our people.
06:04Now it's panic, but tomorrow it will be all in one and then it will be very bad for you.
06:12Please, go out from here.
06:13Just go out.
06:18And just a quick update on the news story here in Kyiv.
06:22That airport that we showed you, the airport of Antonov, 15 miles to the north of the city,
06:26that was taken by the Russians earlier, has apparently been taken back by the Ukrainians.
06:30That is according to the office of the president here in Kyiv.
06:34We'll give you more updates, of course, as they arrive.
06:36Now, within the last hour also, we've been getting pictures from the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor,
06:43which has reportedly been captured by Russian troops.
06:47An advisor to Ukraine's president said that their forces had lost control of the highly radioactive site
06:52after putting up fierce resistance.
06:54Earlier, a Ukrainian interior ministry official claimed that if the Chernobyl depot was destroyed by artillery strikes,
07:02then radioactive dust would cover Ukraine, Belarus and other EU countries.
07:08Gosh.
07:09Well, in Washington, D.C., President Biden has just been giving a televised address from the White House.
07:15Let's hear a bit of what he had to say.
07:16Putin's actions betray his sinister vision for the future of our world when more nations take what they want by force.
07:26But it is a vision that the United States and freedom-loving nations everywhere will oppose with every tool of our considerable power.
07:33The United States and our allies and partners will merge from this stronger, more united, more determined, and more purposeful.
07:40Well, back in Ukraine, the authorities are reporting 57 military and civilian deaths and 50 on the Russian side,
07:57although those numbers are sure to climb.
07:59Much of the fighting so far has been concentrated in eastern areas,
08:03especially around the second city of Kharkiv, as well as the Black Sea ports of Edessa and Mariupol.
08:08Russia claims it has destroyed more than 80 military targets.
08:13While our international editor, Lindsay Hilsom, is in the eastern city of Dnipro,
08:17where shelling was heard before dawn this morning.
08:20Lindsay.
08:22Matt, things are quiet here at the moment,
08:25and certainly the people of Dnipro will be hoping that they remain quiet overnight.
08:30Now, we didn't start our day here.
08:32We started our day in Kramatorsk, further to the east,
08:35really near what used to be the front line.
08:38The whole country is the front line now.
08:40But what I mean by that is it was about 50 miles from the separatist areas.
08:46Those are the areas which Russia has controlled since 2014.
08:50And there was a lot of fear in Kramatorsk
08:53that the Russian troops would come straight across, right into Kramatorsk.
08:57Now, there has been skirmishing along that, what used to be called the contact line.
09:01And many of the people I met, they just weren't sure what to do.
09:05One woman I talked to this morning said,
09:06well, look, I work in an orphanage.
09:08What should we do with the children?
09:09I'm going to have to take them somewhere, but I don't know where to take them to.
09:13We decided to head a bit further west,
09:16so that's why we came here to Dnipro,
09:18passing many people in traffic, you know, not in traffic jams,
09:22but in queues for petrol.
09:24That's what people wanted.
09:25They didn't necessarily know where they were going to go with the petrol,
09:28but they knew that they had to stock up.
09:29People were also stocking up in supermarkets, sim cards,
09:33all of the things that they might need.
09:36And, you know, this war which is unfolding in Ukraine,
09:40north, south, east and west, it's all over the country.
09:44But this is how it started, first thing, here in Dnipro.
09:51All of Ukraine is a front line now.
09:54The night sky even lit up here in Dnipro,
09:56as Russian missiles hit a military depot on the outskirts of town.
10:00At dawn, a military airfield near Poltava to the north was targeted.
10:09Explosions echo through peaceful villages,
10:12agricultural fields, and now battlefields.
10:15Well, wouldn't you cry?
10:22I'm alone, she says.
10:24Where should I run?
10:25Where should I go?
10:26My God.
10:29She's in Mariupol, one of the most vulnerable towns,
10:33just near Crimea, territory Russia annexed eight years ago,
10:37when President Putin started his land grab for Ukraine.
10:41This afternoon, a military facility on the outskirts of the town was smouldering.
10:47The Russians had attacked the radar and other equipment,
10:51the destruction of air defences across the country being their priority.
10:56Here are Russian military vehicles driving through Crimea,
11:01apparently on their way to Ukraine.
11:03A security camera filmed tanks crossing from Crimea,
11:08the southern flank of today's land invasion.
11:12And more CCTV,
11:14this apparently showing a missile strike
11:17on a warehouse in the Black Sea port of Odessa, west of Crimea.
11:23At dawn in the eastern town of Kramatorsk,
11:26after overnight explosions,
11:28people I met seemed stunned as they started to queue for cash.
11:32What will you do now?
11:34Will you stay here or will you try and go west?
11:37We don't know yet,
11:38because this is happening all over the country.
11:40So where should we go?
11:42As we drove west, we passed long queues for petrol.
11:46Everyone wants to fill up,
11:47even if they don't know where to go,
11:49or if they just want to defy the invaders.
11:54I'm going to fill my tank and go fishing.
11:58And what do you feel about President Putin this morning?
12:01Why is it coming to our country?
12:03We can sort out our own problem.
12:05Why interfere in our lives?
12:07A fighter jet releases a missile.
12:13What has the baby done to deserve this?
12:17Over the border in Russia,
12:20missiles target Ukraine's second city, Kharkiv.
12:23A residential block was hit,
12:26killing at least one person.
12:28Ukrainian firefighters do what they can.
12:31But pensioners,
12:32who once might have seen Russia as a good neighbour,
12:35are now homeless.
12:37And Ukrainians face another night of fear.
12:39One of the things which is important to understand
12:44is where do all these pictures come from?
12:46Now, some of those pictures,
12:47we talk ourselves on our journey,
12:49but others are taken by ordinary Ukrainian citizens
12:52on their iPhones,
12:53and then there are news agencies everywhere.
12:56The Ukrainian authorities are also putting out pictures.
12:59This is the modern world,
13:00where pictures come from everywhere.
13:02You can see what's going on.
13:04The Russians have not closed down the communication system.
13:07What does that tell us?
13:08It tells us that they want the world to see their power.
13:12They want the world to see what they're doing.
13:14And this clashes with what the Americans
13:16and the British and their intelligence agencies
13:18were doing before.
13:20What they hoped was that by shining a light
13:23on the preparations,
13:24this would make Vladimir Putin think twice.
13:27That's why there has been so much information
13:29in the last three weeks or months
13:31with President Biden and others saying,
13:33this is what he's going to do.
13:35We know he's going to do it.
13:36We have all the intelligence.
13:38And yet that didn't stop him.
13:40Because I think that what Vladimir Putin wants
13:42is not just the Ukrainians to feel his power,
13:46but for the whole world to see it too.
13:48And that is going to be the challenge
13:50to the system that we have at the moment.
13:53How do you stop him?
13:54How does the West stop him?
13:56Especially if they're not going to send their military here.
13:58And they say they're not going to send their military here.
14:01The Ukrainians are going to have to fight this alone.
14:04And they're fighting a much superior force.
14:07Lindsay Hilson in Dnepro, Ukraine.
14:10Well, all this, of course, is moving very quickly on the ground.
14:12So let's take a look in more detail
14:14at exactly where military action we know about is taking place.
14:18Jonathan Rugman is here with me.
14:20Jonathan.
14:21Krish, this is a multi-pronged advance,
14:23which is clearly aimed at taking over a sizable chunk of Ukraine.
14:27We don't know how much at the moment.
14:30The Ukrainians are talking about over 200 attacks today.
14:34Clearly, there's the fog of war.
14:35There's propaganda on both sides.
14:38But what a lot of those attacks seem to be about
14:40is achieving Russian air superiority
14:43prior to any massive advance of Russian troops.
14:48That shouldn't be too hard.
14:49There are over 1,000 Russian combat aircraft
14:51versus about 120 in Ukraine.
14:55But what we know about the troop movement so far
14:58is that they've crossed the border from Belarus,
15:01from the northeast near Kharkiv,
15:04from Luhansk in the Donbass,
15:06the disputed region in the east,
15:08and from Russian-annexed Crimea.
15:10That was annexed in 2014.
15:13There have also been explosions near big cities,
15:16including Lutsk and Ivano-Frankivsk in the west.
15:19And there have been helicopter attacks on airports
15:22and one on the military air base of Hostomel near the capital.
15:27Now, what we don't know is how far Vladimir Putin is prepared to go.
15:31Is he really doing all this because he wants an assurance
15:34that Ukraine is not going to join NATO?
15:37That seems like ancient history now.
15:39This seems much bigger.
15:40This looks like an attempt to install a puppet regime
15:43which is favourable to Moscow and in Moscow's orbit.
15:48Will he fight in Kiev to achieve that
15:51or will he just hope that he can go to the borders of the capital
15:56and that there will be some kind of surrender?
15:58We just don't know the answer to that.
16:00But I think one of the very worrying things if you're Ukrainian
16:02is that if you look at what Russia has done in the past,
16:05in Chechnya,
16:07and when it intervened in the Syrian civil war,
16:10which began in 2011,
16:11it is not afraid to inflict civilian casualties
16:15if it doesn't get what it wants.
16:17And I think that's something that many Ukrainians
16:20will be very worried about tonight.
16:22Jonathan Rundman.
16:25By the way, as you might have noticed,
16:26those buildings behind me are not quite as lit up
16:29as they normally are,
16:30including the foreign ministry over this shoulder.
16:33And that's because they don't want to draw attention to themselves
16:35when there's a very imminent danger of Russian jets
16:38flying over the skies of Kiev.
16:40Well, I'm joined now by Ivana Klimbush-Cinzadze,
16:43who was the vice prime minister of Ukraine
16:46in charge of European affairs.
16:48Thank you very much for coming back on the programme, Ivana.
16:52Is there anything that the West, in hindsight,
16:54do you think could have done
16:55to stop what is happening right now to your country?
16:58Well, obviously, we can discuss that at this moment,
17:03but I think it's already will be in vain.
17:07I think preemptive sanctions could have worked.
17:10Preemptive actions would have worked against Russian Federation
17:14and not only disclosing the information that was available to intelligence.
17:18As we see, this is not something that stopped Putin from acting.
17:24We all were listening in to what President Biden had to say today.
17:29We, just a couple of minutes ago,
17:31we also listened to what decisions Britain has taken.
17:35We are waiting to hear also that what the EU has decided.
17:39But you know what?
17:40We all woke up this morning at 5 a.m. in the morning
17:44to the blasts and shellings,
17:48and to the sound of blasts and shellings.
17:50And it's 17 hours since then,
17:53and only now we are hearing that all the pre-agreed sanctions
17:56are going to be introduced.
17:59I think a much, much wider action should be taken
18:03against Russian Federation,
18:04starting from SWIFT being cutting off for Russian companies
18:09to use it, you know, banking systems,
18:13maybe Visa and MasterCard.
18:14It's not something that they should be,
18:15should be having the privilege of using as well.
18:20I think, you know, you can go on embargo on Russian gas and oil.
18:24That will be challenging for your people.
18:26But I understand that if we do not really, really stop him,
18:31it's not this wave, the wave will be hitting
18:36not only Europe, but the whole world.
18:38And you know that Chernobyl is already under Russian occupying force.
18:43I think that's another very serious concern.
18:45Yes, we just reported that.
18:46Yes, we just reported that.
18:49Just on the airport, which is important, of course,
18:51we reported that actually, according to the president's office,
18:55your forces had taken the airport back
18:57that was supposed to be used perhaps as a staging post
18:59for the occupation of Kyiv.
19:01Can you confirm that?
19:03I hear that after that, there has been yet another fighting.
19:09And my understanding is that at this moment,
19:12we have destroyed the lane to which the planes could be landing
19:19there at Hostomar Airport.
19:21OK, because once that airport has been taken,
19:26then, of course, the next thing that will happen
19:29is probably the occupation of Kyiv itself,
19:32where people are afraid that politicians like yourself
19:35could be arrested, perhaps even killed
19:37or certainly detained by the Russians.
19:40Are you afraid that this might happen?
19:42Is this something that you've been working towards,
19:45trying to avoid?
19:46It would be stupid not to be afraid.
19:50I think, yes, we understand that we have been on the Russian ban list
19:55for quite some time.
19:56So everybody who has been pushing back on Russian aggression
20:01since 2014 is among those people who are a target.
20:05And obviously, as a former deputy prime minister
20:10for European and Euro-Atlantic integration,
20:12as a current MP and chair of the European Integration Committee,
20:16I totally understand that it would be strange for them
20:19not to include me in that list.
20:21Yes, I am worried.
20:23Yes, I am probably even scared to an extent,
20:27but I think that it's about necessity to be in touch with others
20:34who are thinking alike that helps us to stand together.
20:40But also, it's devastating to watch
20:43that the world is not reacting as strongly
20:46as we were hoping that it would.
20:50Let me ask you this, Ivana.
20:51The Russian government apparently wants this government here to surrender.
20:56Will they? Can they?
20:57You know, it's the government that was elected by Ukrainian people.
21:05I would hope and pray and encourage them
21:08and sending them all of my support in this particular moment,
21:13even though I'm from a position to actually stand against these demands
21:21of the Russian Federation and not give up on the country.
21:24I think that would be devastating for any beam of light of the future
21:33for Ukrainian people if they surrender
21:35and if they agree to actually evacuate.
21:42And very finally and briefly,
21:44can you imagine life under a Putin puppet regime here in Ukraine?
21:48No, not for me.
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