This is CNN Breaking News.

Welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper, and we start with breaking news in our world lead

just moments ago, the White House confirming that it plans to impose sanctions on Russian

President Vladimir Putin and on Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, the U.S. following

the lead of the European Union and the United Kingdom, which sanctioned those two Russian

leaders earlier today, this move of companies growing fears among U.S. intelligence officials

that despite valiant and courageous efforts by Ukrainians to defend their country, Ukraine's

capital city of Kiev could fall under Russian control within the next few days.

That's according to two sources familiar with the latest U.S. intelligence who say that

the belief among Western officials is that Russia's plan is to topple the Ukrainian government.

In fact, moments ago, Kiev's mayor warned of a difficult night ahead.

That was shortly followed by this, the sounds of air raid sirens across the capital city

of Kiev.

The U.S. has observed at least 200 total Russian missile launches into Ukraine since the

beginning of the Russian invasion with the senior U.S. defense official confirming that

some of those rockets have hit Ukrainian civilian residential areas, though as of now.

We do not know for sure how many innocent Ukrainians have been killed.

CNN's Jim Chudow starts off our coverage from Laviv, which is in Western Ukraine.

Jim has new details on how the president of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, is trying to rally

his nation to fight against the Russian invaders.

The city of Kiev under siege attacks close to the city center with Russian military vehicles

seen on the city streets.

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