# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Watch Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom | Netflix Official Site

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Over 93 days in Ukraine, what started as peaceful student demonstrations became a violent revolution and full-fledged civil rights movement. Watch trailers & learn more.

# data[].attributes.body
https://www.tiktok.com/@nbcnews/video/7068134996468567342?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id7068274034698569222

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
#Explosions heard in #Kyiv as #Putin announces Russian military operation against #Ukraine. #Russia #news #breakingnews

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.embed_code
@nbcnews
#Explosions heard in #Kyiv as #Putin announces Russian military operation against Ukraine. #Russia #news #breakingnews
♬ original sound - nbcnews

# data[].attributes.headline
A small example of Russian stock market crash

# data[].attributes.subject
A small example of Russian stock market crash

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
For technical reasons too boring to explain, we are switching our live coverage to a new webpage here.

For all the latest developments on the conflict, please follow us to the new link.

President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz have both said that cutting Russia off from the global banking system, Swift, is not being proposed right now.

But what would happen if it was?

Excluding Russia from Swift would risk severe repercussions for banks that are owed money - either now or in the longer term.

This is particularly true in Germany, which has deep financial ties with Russia and feels it has done its share of economic sacrifice by suspending certification of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

Although being de-Swifted would be disruptive for Russia, there is an alternate system - called CFPS - that Russia set up after it annexed Crimea in 2014. Similarly, China has also set up a secondary system, CIPS.

Expelling Russia would probably only push it closer to China and play into the hands of the Xi administration, which is keen to "de-dollarise" the world's financial architecture. This would accelerate that trend and ambition.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reportedly just said "the enemy has designated me as the target number one, and my family as the target number two".

In a video address carried by Ukrainian media, Zelensky says he is staying in the capital Kyiv's "government quarters" and his family is also in Ukraine. He did not provide further details.

Zelensky also warns that Ukrainian officials now have "information that enemy sabotage groups have entered Kyiv".

The president did not elaborate on what those groups might be.

More on the situation at Chernobyl tonight: White House press secretary Jen Psaki just told reporters at her daily briefing that there are reports Russian soldiers are holding the staff of the Ukrainian nuclear site hostage.

"We are outraged by credible reports that Russian soldiers are currently holding the staff of the Chernobyl facilities hostage," she said.

"This unlawful and dangerous hostage-taking, which could upend the routine civil service efforts required to maintain and protect the nuclear waste facilities, is obviously incredibly alarming and gravely concerning.

"We condemn it and we request their release."

Read more on this here.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told his government on Thursday evening that Ukrainian soldiers have been putting up a fight, tweets the BBC's political correspondent Iain Watson.

Russian forces have taken control of Chernobyl, site of the 1986 nuclear disaster and a place that remains radioactive to this day - prompting significant concern from international nuclear watchdogs.

Prof Claire Corkhill, nuclear materials expert at Sheffield University, told the BBC about the dangers of military clashes taking place near the site.

"This is not a place to have ammunition flying around," she said.

The Chernobyl site contains several nuclear waste containment facilities - including the "new safe confinement" - the protective dome that covers the reactor that was so badly damaged by the infamous 1986 explosion.

"These buildings are designed to keep radioactive materials inside, but they're not necessarily armoured; they're not designed to operate in a war zone," she said.

Prof Corkhill said that although piercing one of these structures wouldn't necessarily cause a repeat of the Chernobyl disaster - where plumes of radioactive material dispersed across Europe - it could "set us back 30 years in terms of the work that has been done clearing up the site".

It could release and disperse radioactive material in the local area, she said.

Chris Morris

BBC Reality Check

There was plenty of criticism that Western sanctions in the days leading up to this invasion did not go far enough, fast enough.

These new measures will hit the Russian economy much harder. But there are still potential gaps.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said sanctions against major Russian banks include one of the largest state banks, VTB, which will have all its assets frozen. But another major bank, Sberbank, was not mentioned.

And the Ukrainian government wanted more - in particular moves to disconnect Russia from the international payment system known as Swift, which thousands of banks use to exchange information.

The US and the UK are in favour of such a move, but some European countries fear it could damage their own banks.

Suspending Russia from Swift is still under consideration, but the hesitation is a reminder that in a globalised world all sanctions tend to have an impact on the countries imposing them as well.

And the real trouble with sanctions is that they don't work quickly.

They do increase pressure, and they can do damage.

But the international community is not trying to damage the Russian economy just for the sake of doing so.

It wants economic pressure to force a change in Putin's political and military calculations.

Meanwhile, the invasion of Ukraine continues.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has just signed a decree ordering a general mobilisation.

All Ukrainians who can carry arms have been urged to defend their homeland.

The country's conscripts and reservists are also being called up, according to the decree, which is to be in effect for 90 days.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says 137 Ukrainian citizens - both soldiers and civilians - died on Thursday, the first day of a massive Russian military assault.

Gordon Corera

Security correspondent, BBC News

The head of Britain's MI6 has tweeted about intelligence on Ukraine.

"US and UK intelligence communities uncovered Putin's plans for Ukraine. We exposed his attempts to engineer 'false flag', fake attacks to justify his invasion. We revealed his plans to assassinate Ukrainian leaders and senior officials," Richard Moore, also known as "C", said in a tweet.

"This attack was long planned, unprovoked, cruel aggression. No amount of Russian disinformation will now disguise that fact from the international community," wrote the Secret Intelligence Service chief.

US and UK intelligence seem to have had an unusual and highly accurate level of insight into Putin's plans and strategy.

The unprecedented publicising of some of that intelligence has had tactical success in partly disrupting Putin's plans - including for provocations and false flags.

It may have also helped draw Western countries closer together. But even this level of insight couldn't provide a way of stopping or deterring him.

All Ukrainian men aged between 18 to 60 are now banned from leaving the country, Ukraine's state border guard service (DPSA) says.

It adds the measure is aimed at "guaranteeing Ukraine's defence and the organisation of timely mobilisation".

The temporary ban will remain in force for the duration of martial law declared on Thursday morning.

Steve Rosenberg

BBC Moscow Correspondent

I think Vladimir Putin is fuelled by resentment at how the Cold War ended, with the West declaring victory and Russia losing power, influence and territory.

I think he's also motivated by an almost semi-religious belief that Ukraine must be with Russia, must be in Russia's orbit, and Russia as a great power has the right to its own sphere of influence. I also think he has disdain for the West and Western leaders, whom he deems weak and disunited.

What can the West do about this? It's very difficult to say. I think the Kremlin would've factored in sanctions. The Kremlin will know that the US will not put boots on the ground in Ukraine. The West does not want a war with Russia and Russia knows that.

But I would say this. If you've been in power for 22 years, as Putin has, you start to feel invincible, you start to think you can't put a foot wrong, that you're Teflon. And that's when mistakes start to creep in.

Just from speaking to people on the streets and witnessing the strength of feeling against this offensive, I wonder whether this Russian invasion will turn out to be Putin's fatal error.

Countless Kyiv residents are sleeping in underground metro stations as midnight approaches in Ukraine.

The people - some of whom have brought their pets, extension cords and even air mattresses - are mostly calm, according to one evacuee.

The place is "not too crowded, most people are scrolling their phones, trying to catch the latest news", says Oksana Potapova.

"We seem settled enough to spend the night here," she wrote on Facebook.

"And given the news about heavy fighting near Kyiv, the takeover of Chernobyl power plant, and forecasts of possible attacks on Kyiv, it seems like a good decision."

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Ukraine invaded: Casualties as fighting rages after Russian attack - BBC News

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
For technical reasons too boring to explain, we are switching our live coverage to a new webpage here. For all the latest developments on the conflict, please follow us to the new link. President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz have both said that cutting Russia off from the global banking system, Swift, is not being proposed right now.

# data[].attributes.headline
Lai nebūti tikai karodziņi uz profila attēla, varam izdarīt ko vairāk: https://www.ziedot.lv/ukrainas-cilvekiem-4203

# data[].attributes.subject
Lai nebūti tikai karodziņi uz profila attēla, varam izdarīt ko vairāk: https://www.ziedot.lv/ukrainas-cilvekiem-4203