languages. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening it is a restless night in kyiv after the ukrainian capital came under a barrage of russian missiles that struck across the country earlier today, killing nearly a dozen. officials say at least 84 cruise missiles and 24 drones were used in today s attacks that russia calls an act of revenge after accusing ukraine of being behind the weekend explosion that destroyed parts of a major bridge and critical supply route connecting russia to annexed crimea the russian strikes hitting ukraine s energy infrastructure, plunging many cities into an unsettling darkness president biden condemning russia, saying it destroyed targets with no military purpose the attack comes as vladimir putin faces growing pressure at home to take a harder stand against ukraine, which has made major gains on the battlefield recently tonight we have teams on the ground both inside ukraine and in moscow let s start with cal perr
asking for help. mother from venezuela telling the new york post she s waiting for food, clothes, and a place to work. chief economic advisor says core inflation is likely on the rise. inflation will come down with a slow down in the economy or a major recession. dodger is in trouble. recovered underneath, and the giants come from behind, and knock off the packers! that was a great win, but this is not great. we start with the fox news alert, explosions rocking kyiv as russia carries out a new assault on ukraine overnight. many people are dead. was in the last hour, the u.s. embassy issuing a dire warning urging american still in the country to shelter in place. ainsley: alexandria hoff is monitoring the situation and joins us. what s the latest? residence in multiple cities have been one to take shelter. we have trey yingst on the ground reporting that, at this hour, there s currently a total blackout in kharkiv and he reports sessions are aiming at civilian
cardinali will react in a moment. sandra: cyber attack on u.s. airport websites reportedly coming from inside russia. more than a dozen airport websites were hacked and temporarily taken down but there has been no impact yet on flight operations. so far, at least. hello, welcome, i m sandra smith in new york. and gillian, welcome to you. gillian: great to be with you this afternoon. gillian turner in washington. in for john roberts today. this is america reports. bring you more on this cyber attack as we get it into the newsroom. the white house is defending president biden s nuclear armageddon comments. they say the stakes for americans are higher than in decades. comes as dozens of missile strikes rained down on ukraine early monday morning. at least 11 civilians have been killed so far. the capital city of kyiv suffering the worst bombing since the early days of the war. sandra: vladimir putin vowing revenge for a bombing on the only bridge linking crimea and russi
this latest attack you are seeing on the screen now. and he says he s always been a monster and it s never going to change. so will anybody believe him before he s released again? welcome back as america reports rolls into hour two on this monday afternoon. i m sandra smith in new york, and gillian, it s great to have you today. gillian: great to be with you. i m gillian turner in for john roberts. so chilling words from the lifelong violent criminal helping to make the case now, clearly against going soft on crime. fox news alert now. [screaming] that is the sound and sights of multiple missiles raining down on the capitol city of ukraine, kyiv, under aerial attack from russia, intensity not seen since the early days of the water. vladimir putin targeting political infrastructure, and calling for retaliation of the bombing of the only bridge linking russia to crimea, a critical supply line for his army. gillian: and ukrainian officials say the airstrikes have killed
her phone recording this as the blast went off around here near the national university. a man on a pedestrian bridge in kyiv when the explosion goes off. where to go from there? he run towards the surveillance camera. ukraine s president reacting to this. he beliefs that they re using suicide drones, the russians, and that they re coming from iran. he vows he will not back down. we are dealing with terrorists. dozens of missiles. they want to destroy our energy system. now there may be temporary e interruptions with electricity. so all of this days a after president biden said that putin is not joking about the use of nuclear weapons and we have not faced the prospect of armageddon since kennedy and the cuban missile crisis. in a moment, i ll be joined by mike pompeo. perfect guest to talk about where to go from here with ukraine. first, trey yingst reporting live from kharkiv ukraine, which is on that list of cities that were hit. hi, trey. martha, good afternoon. we