Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, we are very quickly approaching a full scale European war
between Russia and Ukraine in just a period of a few hours, things went from U.S. intelligence
believes a large invasion is coming within the next 48 hours and then just a few hours later,
bombings starting all over Ukraine by Russia. Further, Russian troops entering Ukraine and we
are now in the middle of a full scale invasion of Ukraine by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
There were still people, even up until minutes before saying This is not likely
to happen. It's not likely. It just doesn't seem like it's what Putin wants to do.
And yet it is what's happening, and we are doing the best we can to keep up with all of the news,
which is changing very quickly. Let's just start somewhere with the headline Russia invades Ukraine
in Europe's darkest hours since World War Two. Reported by Reuters. Russian forces
invaded Ukraine Thursday and understand that it was Wednesday night in the U.S., being seven
hours later in Ukraine. It was early Thursday morning in a massed assault by land, sea and air.
The biggest attack by one state against another in Europe since World War Two. Missiles rained down,
Ukraine reported columns of troops pouring across its borders from Russia and Belarus and landing on
the coast from the Black and Azov Seas. Ukrainian troops fought Russian forces along practically the
entire border. Explosions were heard before dawn and throughout the morning in the capital Kiev.
Three million people in the city. Gunfire rattled, sirens blared and the highway out of the city
choked with traffic as residents fled. Russia attacks Ukraine, peace in Europe, shattered, as
reported by The Associated Press. Russia launched a wide ranging attack on Ukraine Thursday, hitting
cities and bases with air strikes or shelling civilians piled into trains and cars to flee.
Ukraine's government said Russian tanks and troops rolled across the border in a full scale war.
Could rewrite the geopolitical order and whose fallout already reverberated around the world
in unleashing Moscow's most aggressive action since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in
1979. That's 43 years ago, Putin deflected global condemnation and cascading new sanctions. This is
now starting to pull in other European countries in the sense of triggering NATO's Article four.
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and other allies are holding consultations
under NATO's Article four after Russia has attacked Ukraine under Article four of the
Naito agreement, the allies can hold consultations whenever they feel the territorial integrity,
political independence or security of an ally is threatened. This is the next signal
of what could be next and what could be next would be. And I mean, it's it's it would be something
approximating the scope of a World War, and I I don't want to be hyperbolic, but when we are
talking about a full scale invasion by Russia, of Ukraine and by Russia of Ukraine, and then we are
talking about the surrounding allies, including Estonia and Latvia, Lithuania, et cetera,
getting involved. How can I not say we're talking about something approximating a world war?
I was going to report to you today. U.S. warns full scale invasion of
Ukraine could be imminent. This was again in the afternoon. Yesterday, the story was, we believe
the intelligence points in this direction. It could be coming. It could be 48 hours.
And then within hours, it happened, within hours it happened. Biden warns Russia of further
consequences after Putin's declaration. It's going to get very ugly politically and economically.
Biden issued a statement Wednesday night condemning Russia's President Vladimir Putin's
announcement of a quote special military operation in Ukraine. Moments before Ukrainian cities were
bombarded by Russian missile strikes. Consider that there were people. There were people up.
And I mean, some this morning are still saying it. But there were people up until last night saying
everything Putin is doing is justified because by not ruling out that Ukraine will ever join Naito,
Putin is justified in everything. The invasion, the bomb, everything. Got some real,
real problems out there. Putin sent in troops disguised with white peace monitors, symbols and
Ukrainian officials, folks. It's a full invasion. Troops entering the country from Belarus were
reportedly disguising themselves in Ukrainian military and police uniforms. We have various
locations of where explosions were heard. We have a map up on the screen and as you can see,
it's basically the entire country as of this morning. The western piece of Ukraine,
which borders Romania, Hungary, Slovakia has not yet seen explosions.
But you have locations where CNN heard explosions and then locations were local residents reported
explosions. CNN reporting that the Ukrainian Interior Ministry says they have experienced
hundreds of casualties from just the first missile strikes. Hundreds already killed in Ukraine.
Speaker 2: The vibrations, obviously those attacks, those missile strikes coming in much
closer is the sort of news that we've got from the defense officials saying that this is now and this
is a quote I'm getting from the president's office at the moment. A full blown nation wide attack
with military infrastructure that is being attacked nationwide. So the emphasis being
on the military infrastructure that they say is coming under attack. We've also spoken to again
our contact at the Interior Ministry, an Interior Ministry official saying that across the country,
as a result of these attacks, there are hundreds of casualties. Now, we don't know
how many of those people are dead, how many are injured or whether that figure is accurate.
But we do know that the Interior Ministry of Ukraine is putting the number of casualties so far
in this nationwide assault missile assault at this stage, for the most part in the hundreds.
Speaker 1: And I apologize. I said hundreds dead casualties does not necessarily mean
dead. It means injured or dead, and we're still going to be standing by
to learn more about that. But it is. It is not looking particularly good. The plan now is for
more sanctions. More sanctions world expresses outrage plans, stronger Russia sanctions,
as reported by The Associated Press. World leaders today reacted to the invasion with vows of
unprecedented sanctions, and we will we will focus in more on the sanctions. And in another segment,
we have incredible video from Kiev's central train station, just flooded with people trying
to get out of the city. Desperation rising. And we're showing that video to our audience, just
people desperate to get out. There are reports of troops coming into Ukraine, Russian troops
from all sides. CNN has video of troops crossing the border of Belarus into Ukraine. That's one
direction from which they are entering. There are reports of Russian military forces
entering Ukraine from Crimea, making that invasion from eight years ago all the more relevant
today. This is going to be painful for Russia. I mean, the Russian stock market down 40 percent.
It's it's, you know, if retaliation really gets going. And Ukraine says there has been some. We
don't know the full scope of it yet. It is going to be painful for Russia, but it's not clear Putin
cares. Ukraine's military says its air defense did shoot down a Russian plane in eastern Ukraine.
Ukraine is saying anyone who's ready and able to hold a weapon can join territorial defense forces
and understand that the Russians will want to persuade Ukraine to surrender. And not
only are they launching a multi origin multiplatform attack, they are also likely
to use disinformation, fake video and fake photos to encourage that Ukrainian surrender
and the next several days could be some of the most insane we have seen on this planet
geopolitically. I don't even I don't even know since when in a very, very long time,
and the threats are now starting to come to the United States