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Russia Attacks Ukraine With Missiles, Tanks, Artillery, Attack Jets; Ukraine's Zelensky Declares Martial Law, Urges Calm Amid Invasion. Aired 7-7:30a ET

Aired February 24, 2022 - 07:00   ET

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BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN ANCHOR: President Putin went on state T.V. he announced a special military operation, as he calls it, saying that it is to protect the Donbas region.

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The goal that he says is the demilitarization and the de-Nazification of Ukraine. One bit of context here, though, the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, is Jewish.

Ukrainians have been told to stay in their home but this small group seen kneeling and praying in the streets of Kharkiv. Ukraine's President Zelensky pleading for peace in a nationally televised address just moments ago.

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VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY, UKRANIAN PRESIDENT: Putin began war against Ukraine, against the entire democratic world. He wants to destroy my country, our country, everything we've been building, everything we are living for.

We know the strength of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. You can, you are indomitable. You are Ukrainians.

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JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: CNN reporters and 44 million Ukrainians were in the middle of this. This is CNN's Matthew Chance. You can see him. He is in Kyiv having to take measures to protect himself, like so many millions in that nation now are having to deal with. There were missiles strikes reported near the capital city. The U.S. embassy in Kyiv telling Americans in the region to shelter in place.

So, Putin, after lying for weeks, if not, years about his intentions, Vladimir Putin declared his war as a U.N. Security Council meeting was taking place for the purpose of averting war. It gives you a sense of his disrespect for world order.

In a phone call with Ukraine's president, President Joe Biden promised that Russia will be held accountable for what he called an unprovoked and unjustified attack. At noon Eastern, President Biden will deliver remarks to the nation. The whole world will be listening. We have CNN reporters covering this story from every angle, from Moscow, to Lviv, to Kyiv.

I want to begin with CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto who is in the western city in Ukraine of Lviv. And, Jim, you are there witnessing generations of post-World War II order upended.

JIM SCIUTTO, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT: John, that's right. We wake up this morning to a war in Europe, a deadly one already. Take a moment to consider that. And it unfolded -- it began to unfold last night in what you might call a worst-case scenario. U.S. intelligence assessments for weeks had been saying Russia was preparing for a broad-scale invasion of this country beginning with an air campaign and a missile campaign and an artillery campaign. That's exactly what we saw, quickly followed by ground forces.

The first targets hit with cruise and ballistic missiles in Kyiv, the capital in and around Kyiv, the capital in Mariupol in the south, and in the northeast of the country in Kharkiv, hit by artillery barrages. And very quickly after that, that effort to, in effect, soften the battlefield, as well as strike military targets to attempt to disable the Ukrainian military came the ground forces across the border, including armor.

And it's interesting, you showed those pictures earlier of tanks rolling along the highway from north of the country in Belarus here into Ukraine. We had a lot of talk early about how the weather would cooperate, would the ground be frozen enough in the east for the tanks not to get bogged down in the mud? What did we see in reality? We saw them driving down the highway into this country at top speed. That's how quickly this unfolded.

We are hearing of this morning, though, of resistance from the Ukrainian military. There is a fog of war. We have to acknowledge that. It is hard to count casualties at this point, though both sides are claiming them. Both sides claiming as well to have destroyed targets on the other side. It is hard to corroborate those until you see them yourself.

I want to get to how this may extend beyond Ukraine, because with he heard just a few moments ago from the NATO secretary-general, Jens Stoltenberg, speaking from NATO headquarters in Brussels. And he said this. And I think, John and Brianna, this puts a point on it, if you want to say. He says that we are waking up to a new normal for our security, speaking of NATO security, that peace cannot be taken for granted. That is NATO's view, that is the U.S.' view.

And if you were listening to Putin's words as he launched this attack, also in his address to his nation on Monday, he wasn't just threatening Ukraine, that significant enough, but he seemed to be challenging the post-cold war order. He seemed to setting his sights potentially on other Eastern European nations, some of whom are now members of NATO. That is where we stand.

Just one other thing I want to mention that the NATO secretary-general spoke about, he reiterated that NATO has no of committing its own forces, its own troops to fight Russia in Ukraine. It remains a military support operation, if you want to call it that, supplying lethal assistance to Ukrainian military.

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And he spoke of continuing that. But no NATO troops on the frontline.

That said, Russian forces and NATO forces are in very close proximity. More NATO forces have been moved closer to that eastern frontier, close enough that the NATO secretary-general highlighted that de- confliction communication continues. That is that deliberate communication between NATO and the Russian side to make sure that their planes in the air, the ships on the seas, their ground forces don't get too close too each other, don't misinterpret moves as attacks or acts of war.

That, John and Brianna, just highlights the diceyness, if you want to call it that, the danger of how when you have this much going on, the danger of escalation is real.

BERMAN: Jim, I can just give people a sense of what you're talking about there. You're talking about NATO membership. There are new U.S. troops that are rotating in to Latvia up here, that, of course, all the way up here in the Baltic region. You can see it is right on the border with Russia. Ukraine is obviously all the way down here. Poland, there's U.S. troops here now, very close proximity, as you say, to Russian troops. De-confliction is necessary.

And one other thing, Jim, I just want to point out where you are, you are over here in Lviv, there have been reports now of explosions just all over, just all over the country. This is a large-scale, multi- targeted attack, including, I should note, we're getting reports not far from you. I know you have had air raid sirens there.

What does this tell you, just the scale of what has happened over the last few hours?

SCIUTTO: It tells you that Putin wants to take over Ukraine. It's an independent country. It has sovereign borders. It is democratic. It is twice in a row elected presidents who promised closer relations with the west and more independence, not less, from Russia. Putin doesn't like that message. So, he's using force to take it over and extending, well, the whole extent of the country.

When he says peacekeepers in the east because of Nazis, for which he provides no evidence, that's a cover. He's, in fact, carrying out an invasion of this country and attacking targets across the country that shows that his intention is to is to own the country, right? And that's the way we should look at this military operation now.

BERMAN: Jim Sciutto over here in Lviv, Jim, stay safe, you and your team. Please take care.

Let's now go across the entire country to Kharkiv. That's where Sam Kiley and his team are this morning.

Sam, I know you have been hearing explosions. Give us a sense of the situation on the ground.

SAM KILEY, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, when we last spoke, John, there had been a series of very loud explosions, very loud, indeed, much louder than we'd experienced since the pre-dawn beginning of this campaign, that is focused certainly in this region, as far as we know, on military targets, such as airfields, communications and, of course, air defenses.

Now, some of that sound that we heard earlier on today could well have been outgoing fire coming from the Ukrainian armed forces because they do have some fairly sophisticated weaponry. They had been preparing for this moment. They would have known, as Jim as pointing out, it is straight out of a standard playbook, when you're going to conduct an operation on this scale, you will hit the air defenses, you will try to take out communications before launching any kind of ground incursions. So, that is what seems to be unfolding. The Ukrainians will have prepared for that.

We are still in the very early stages of this potential counterattack coming potentially from the Ukrainians. The ministry of defense claiming, and we have no independent verification for this, that already four Russian tanks have been knocked out on the perimeter circular road that encircles this city of a million and a half people in the east of the country.

But, importantly, about the geographical location of this place is that it is 25 miles to the Russian border. And just the other side of that border has been, over the last month or so, a very, very significant concentration of Russian forces, surface-to-surface missiles, long-range ballistic missiles, vast numbers of tanks, armored personnel carriers and mobile howitzers, the one -- the very large artillery pieces that have also been, we understand, in action.

So, this at still the very early stages of a campaign that, as Jim was saying, is extended very largely across the country. In the further to the east, in Kramatorsk, where we were yesterday, there was low level of shelling coming from the secessionist rebels there. They have now been joined formally by the Russian Armed Forces.

They are claiming to be pushing further into those two divided provinces in a bid, they say, to take them and secure them and relieve them, as the Russians would put it, from the Ukrainian occupying forces, their words, not ours. Under international law, by any terms other than those understood by the Kremlin, this is sovereign Ukrainian territory that is under attack.

Now, the Ukrainians have claimed to have downed several air frames there, both aircraft and helicopters, again, no independent verification.

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There does seem to be some pretty heavy fighting there. And then, critically, further south in Kherson, there's been an incursion from the Crimean Peninsula, where the administration in the Crimea, Russians, had not only captured that in 2014 but actually formally annexed it to Russia, they have now captured a very important strategic canal that could bring water into the otherwise parched Crimea, which the Ukrainian government had cut back in 2014.

I think whatever happens in a future dispensation, getting that back and out undoing the Russian grasp on that would be extremely difficult. But this is still very early stages of what may be a campaign, as Jim says, to try to take over the entire country, or at least to try to slice off a significant chunk of the country and, above all, make sure that it remains unstable and unable to apply for, let alone be accepted into NATO, or even more importantly for Ukraine, the European Union. John, Brianna?

BERMAN: I'll take it, Sam. And, again, this is where Sam Kiley is in Kharkiv, up here. He mentioned the border between Russia, how close it is. And over here, this the region, is where we have seen over the last few days amassing of equipment and personnel on the Russian side now obviously being deployed, at least to some extent, over the border into Ukraine. Sam Kiley, you and your team, please stay safe.

KEILAR: Let's get some analysis now on this situation with retired Colonel Cedric Leighton, our CNN Military Analyst and former member of the Joint Staff at the Pentagon.

Just looking here at the map, you're seeing how broadly Russia is attacking Ukraine. Take us through this, what this means.

COL. CEDRIC LEIGHTON (RET.), CNN MILITARY ANALYST: So, Brianna, it is really quite an interesting three-pronged approach that the Russians have done here. For example, you have naval forces attacking from this area, from the south, from the Black Sea. From the northeast, you have toward Kharkiv, where Sam was reporting, you have all of these areas kind of in the throes of -- in the target area of the Russian advance. And then close to Kyiv, you have from Belarus, you have Russian forces coming in this way.

So, what does this mean? Well, these guys may land here. There may be amphibious assault ships that they will use to land in Odessa, in this region right here. If that does happen, that, of course, affects the entire ea Coast and Ukrainian control of the Black Sea coast.

But what's important from the leadership perspective is what happens here in Kyiv. If something happens to the Zelensky regime, where they, in essence, do what we would call the decapitation strike, what that would mean is Ukraine would lose its civilian government. That is something you have to watch out for. I believe the Russians are trying to do that.

They're also trying, of course, to extend their reach here in the east because with that extension, he will take over, Putin will take over all of the regions in the Donbas that he has claimed as being separate and independent states. Those independent states, of course, are tied to Russia, and what that, of course, means is that it's really going to be a Russia puppet regime there. And what Putin wants to do is establish a Russian puppet regime throughout the entire country. KEILAR: And, look, let's be clear, now, you expected a broad approach from Putin. But let's just be clear. This here, this is the separatist-controlled area of Donetsk and Luhansk. This is the actual border of those counties. This is what the Russian-backed separatist control. There was a question of does he take off a bite? Does he go further in? The answer here is very clear. And it's also prompting a response from the U.S. in the form of new troops coming to the north.

LEIHGTON: Absolutely. North of here, north of Belarus, you have the countries of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, the Baltic states. They are NATO members. They fall under Article 5 protections. If Article 5 of the NATO treaty is invoked, that means we, as partners in NATO, have to protect the Baltic states and all the other countries that are part of NATO. That includes Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania.

Those countries are basically going to be on the frontlines if the Russians take over Ukraine and take over even the western part around Lviv. So, all of this becomes really important. With the deployment of U.S. forces up to the north, that becomes an even more interesting geopolitical play because the United States is now putting down several markers. We have troops here in Poland. We have troops up north. We have troops in Romania. These are all going to be critical elements in what happens next, the kind of day after tomorrow scenario that could unfold as diplomacy does whatever it does and, of course, the troops on the ground and the conditions on the ground tell us what is really going to happen.

KEILAR: All right. Colonel, we'll keep you here taking a look at this. Berman, back to you.

BERMAN: All right. Joining me is the former U.S. ambassador to Russia and the former deputy secretary general of NATO, Alexander Vershbow.

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Ambassador, thank you so much for being with us.

Ambassador, I'm just standing in front of this map right now, which has got locations of at least 16 places. And I'm sure there are more by now that have been targeted by the air from Russia and Ukraine, blasts in this nation. What does the scale of this tell you this morning?

ALEXANDER VERSHBOW, FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA: Well, John, first of all, this is a very sad day for the people of Ukraine and it's a very sad day for those who believe in a world order based on the rule of law rather than might makes right. Clearly, the Russians are proceeding very methodically with this aggression, overnight taking out air defenses, command and control communications, terrifying the population, as we're seeing now with the mass flight that's unfolding from Kyiv and other cities.

Clearly, this is not just about Donbas, as Putin announced in his speech overnight. It looks like they are aiming to occupy at least the capital and several other major cities, and maybe try to occupy the whole country with the view of toppling the government and installing a pro-Russian regime. So, this is deserving of the strong condemnation that we have heard from the United States, from NATO. And I think it demands a very firm response.

This is totally unprovoked, unjustified. The justification that this is to stop genocide and Nazis is just completely ludicrous, it's an insult to the victims of Nazi genocide during World War II and to the millions of Soviet Citizens, including Ukrainians, who helped defeat the Nazis. So, it's a very terrible turn of events. And now the international community has to make sure that Putin pays a very heavy price for what he's done.

BERMAN: Again, just so people know what you're talking about, Putin is making the absurd claim, it is all about this region over here is his claim. But yet you can see the blasts, the incursions all over the entire country here, which just proves the lie that he has been relying on for the last several days.

So, a violation of the world order like this, what do you do about it? If Vladimir Putin is willing to thumb his nose at generations of norms, how do you stop him now?

VERSHBOW Well, that's the challenge that the free world now faces. And we have to be methodical ourselves, just as he has been methodical with his aggression. I think we have to start by rolling out all the remaining sanctions that have been considered, these massive sanctions that will --

BERMAN: Ambassador, I don't mean to cut you off, but our Frederik Pleitgen is in a key location over the border from Ukraine and Russia. Fred, tell us what you're seeing.

FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Hi there, John. Those streaks that you are seeing up in the sky, I don't know if you can see exactly right now, you can see more artillery rockets apparently be firing from Russian territory towards the territory, I would say, around Kharkiv. I don't know if you can hear this right now. I'm just going to not talk for a second.

So, that's another salvo of what we believe is multiple artillery rocket launchers that have been going off here. This is the second or third salvo that we saw down here.

I just want to explain really quick where I am actually, John, because I'm at the last checkpoint before the frontline near Kharkiv. I'm on the Russian side. I'm south of the town of Belgorod. And what you see behind me over there, that's the sort of last checkpoint. And in that direction over there, that is where Kharkiv would be, where we had Sam Kiley was before.

So, what we have been seeing here over the past couple of minutes, over the past, really, 45 minutes since we have been here, there's more rockets that's being fired right now. If we look to the sky, we can see it there. If we pan up, there's another salvo is being fired right now.

So, you can see in this area, the Russians firing artillery rockets towards Ukraine. And at the same time, we have also seen them move in heavy, heavy armor through the road that I just pointed to before. We saw howitzers going down that road just a couple of minutes ago. We've seen armored vehicles going down that road and troop carriers going down that road as well.

So, this seems to be one of the main supply lines for the Russian military, for their offensive, at least for the Kharkiv region. This seems to be where the Russian military is sort of feeding that offensive from right here. In fact, if we pan over there, you can see there's another sort of troop transporter that's actually coming out of the area from the frontline. So, as you can see, there is that sort of movement that's going back and forth.

And the folks are manning that checkpoint, mostly police officers. They're very nervous. And they stopped us from filming already a couple of times, especially when that heavy armor moves through, clearly not wanting to show the full extent of what is actually going in there, which is a lot of military hardware.

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And all of the vehicles that we've been seeing going in there, they all have the Z marking that the Russian military seems to have put on their vehicles for this offensive. So, this is certainly a key location right here. South Belgorod, really not very far at all from the Ukrainian border, guys.

BERMAN: All right. Fred, just bear with me for a second here. I want to show people where you are. Again, this is Belgorod, this is on the Russian side. Right here is the border, and this is Kharkiv. That's where our Sam Kiley was just moments ago. I'm going to take this off the screen so people can see it once again here.

And, Fred, just to be clear, you are hearing firing and seeing firing from the Russian side to the Ukrainian side right now?

PLEITGEN: Yes, that's absolutely correct. Yes, I'm seeing artillery rockets being launched from right here where I am, which is really -- it's not far from the border at all. I would say maybe about 10, 15 miles away from the border towards Ukrainian territory. So, some of the impacts that our crews are hearing in places like Kharkiv is probably originating from where we saw just there, that you have those salvos of the artillery that are being fired, but then also you have the Russian ground operation clearly also being fed here via this checkpoint as a lot of that military hardware goes towards Ukraine from this very place.

And they've obviously shut down traffic for civilians to that area. And on the roads, you do see a lot of vehicles, military vehicles sort of going back and forth. Fairing things, you see armored vehicles clearly providing support for that massive Russian operation that is happening in Kharkiv and, of course, in other places as well in Ukraine, John.

And, Fred, this is also very important here, because what you're saying here is we've heard reports and seen the explosions, but you with your very own eyes at the border are seeing what is an actual incursion. You are seeing troops and material going from the Russian side to the Ukrainian side. Yes?

PLEITGEN: Yes, that's exactly what we're seeing. We're seeing those artillery pieces, we're seeing troop carriers going towards Ukrainian territory. I mean, obviously, we can't see all the way to the Ukrainian border from here, but there really isn't anything else between here and the Ukrainian border except the border checkpoint, and then the next town on the Ukrainian side is essentially Kharkiv. So, that is pretty much the only place they can go unless they set up positions somewhere before the border. But they are clearly massing in that direction.

And on the other hand, what we've also seen is obviously that artillery fire. But I can tell you, from having been here the entire night, we got here late last night, we were here when the Russian offensive started. And they have been launching a lot of heavy stuff here from this area as well. We've what was clearly artillery fire. We've heard some pretty heavy rockets that were launched as well.

And the other thing that you also hear a lot here, John, is military warplanes overhead, jet fighters going overhead that obviously are also heading in the direction of Ukraine as well. And Belgorod has been one of those sort of areas of troop concentrations for the Russians. It's one of the things that the U.S. has said that a lot of the concentrations that we've seen have been up here in Belgorod or down further south towards Donetsk area. But this is where a lot of the Russian forces are, and, clearly, also where a lot of their heavy rockets, artillery and also their heavy armor are as well, John.

BERMAN: Again, the explosions have been going on for at least four hours now. Fred, I should say, if you need to protect yourself in any way, please let me know.

But in the meantime, I will keep on asking you questions because this is so important what you are saying. You are witnessing the aerial attack on Ukraine from Russia. You are witnessing the ground assault, the physical incursion over the border from Russia into Ukraine.

There was some question, Fred, from our Sam Kiley, who is in Kharkiv, right here, about whether or not there was outgoing fire at this point, return of fire from Ukraine into Russia. Have you had any sense of that?

PLEITGEN: Yes. There's been -- I mean, from what we've seen, and we've been in Belgorod and sort of going south of Belgorod as well, there's been absolutely no return fire that we would have seen or would have witnessed. It doesn't appear to us as though any sort of incoming fire was going on.

All of the thuds that we were hearing, all the launches that we were hearing, to us, appeared very much to be coming from Russian territory. Also last night, when the offensive started, you could -- from our vantage point, you could see the flashes from the rockets taking off. You could see also some of the flashes from the artillery being fired. So, it certainly seems to us as though what we are seeing here is outgoing fire and really nothing in the way of incoming fire.

And also if you look at the posture here, I mean, if you look around, you can see that the folks who are standing at that checkpoint, they are pretty calm. They don't look like they need to be taking cover any time soon. There are no shelters around. There are cars around. There are civilians around. No one is trying to sort of direct those civilians to and take shelter or anything.

It certainly doesn't seem as though the folks on this side of the border are very nervous about sort of incoming fire that could happen here. What's going on here is that the Russian military is firing in that direction, which is Ukraine.

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And they are certainly doing so from many, many positions here along the border. It's not just here where I am but it's also in places around the border as well, where we have been hearing those outgoing fire going on at varying distances also. So, there must be other positions as well and other places along the border that are also firing towards Ukraine, John.

BERMAN: Frederik Pleitgen, again, over the border in Russia near Belgorod, where he is witnessing fire going across the border into Kharkiv right here on the Ukrainian. There are reports now from Washington Post reporters and others of explosions inside that city, maybe from the very devices that Fred is seeing fired there.

Fred Pleitgen, please stay safe, keep us posted. I know you're witnessing a lot of things right now. We'll be back with you in just a second.

In the meantime, I want to bring in retired Lieutenant General Mark Hertling. General Hertling, your reaction to what Fred just reported?

LT. GEN. MARK HERTLING (RET.), CNN MILITARY ANALYST: Yes. What Fred is describing, John, is a system called a multiple-launch rocket system. The NATO name for it is Smirch. It has a range of 96 kilometers, about 55 miles. So, he is with them outside the range of counter-fire that we talked about earlier. A normal artillery piece can fire at most about 30 kilometers or between 19 miles or so.

So, what you are seeing is a rocket system, and each one of those vehicles holds 12 very large, high-explosive rockets, about 220 millimeter. So, these are going to be big explosions on the other side. We talked earlier about area-fire weapons. You can tell just by the launch system what is happening because they're going out in series of 12s and they're going to hit a big area, not a precision strike but a large area strike, which is going to cause a lot of damage somewhere.

What they are aiming at, they probably either have locations of potential Ukrainian troops, airfields or whatever. But as we have seen before, they've also hit apartment complexes and caused civilian damage. So, what Fred is seeing and why no one in his area right now, why the police aren't scurrying for cover, is because Ukraine can't hit back. They are 12 kilometers from the border, which is outside -- even if the Ukrainian artillery was on the other side, they can only hit, about max range about 19 kilometers.

So, these MLRS systems, these Smirch systems, have an advantage of close to 30 miles on any kind of artillery piece. But what Ukrainians may have been firing on last night, as Fred mentioned, he saw tanks, BMPs, artillery pieces rolling across the border, and that's what could be fired from within Ukraine that Ukraine soldiers were firing back on. I hope that makes sense.

BERMAN: Yes, it does make sense, General. What are you making of the reports that fred is seeing there of the ground forces moving over the border? What does that tell you?

HERTLING: Well, first of all, I'll go back to the artillery, this is the preparing the battlefield that we talked about. They will use these MLRs systems and the overhead aircraft and perhaps helicopter assaults to not only prepare where they might eventually go with the tanks and the BMPs, but it could also be --

BERMAN: General, if I can ask you to pause for one second here, Fred, I do think we see some equipment behind you rolling in. General, look at this if you can.

PLEITGEN: Hey, John, yes. There's a column of main battle tanks that are coming through here. I would say it's some sort of a T-72. You can tell they are rolling past us. I'm going to have to speak very loud because they are obviously very loud as they roll along here. They're rolling past our position right now. And what you can see here is that their tracks are very dirty. So, they must have been dug into some field and now sort of switching their positions, coming past us right now.

And this is really something. If we get close, you can see that their tracks are really covered in mud. They must have been sort of dug into some sort of field position as they're rolling past us now.

And now, if we pan over, you can see that those vehicles also, John, are now moving forward. Those vehicles are clearly now moving forward towards the territory of Ukraine. They have come from somewhere on the side. They have just made that turn and that is exactly the road leading to Ukraine. So, that's certainly, to us, appears as though right now what we are seeing right here is parts of the Russian military moving further into Ukraine, moving their hardware into Ukraine.

So, this really seems to be the Russians now, or at least some of their tanks, going from right here to then move towards Ukrainian territory, certainly advancing closer towards Kharkiv, where Sam Kiley is.

So, that is something we have seen similar throughout the time that we have been here, but these main battle tanks, obviously, right now, that is an ominous sign that the Russians certainly are moving some pretty heavy army towards Ukrainian territory, if not, directly into Ukraine, John.

BERMAN: So, Fred Pleitgen, again, over the Russian border here, near Belgorod, literally seeing tanks rolling in, tanks rolling into Ukraine.

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