retailers are trying to jump-start holidays to get consumers kind of in the groove early to start buying, teeing them up because they know that consumers are going to be getting hit with higher prices. so they want to get retailers in the mood to shell out their money earlier. victor? three weeks ahead of halloween and folks are already buying christmas trees. alison, thank you. thank you for staying with me. i m victor blackwell. jsh joe biden and world leaders are condemning russian missile strikes that targeted civilians in ukraine. [ explosions ] wow. overnight, russia unleashed a barrage of missiles in kyiv. multiple other cities too across the country, knocking out critical infrastructure. at least 11 people are dead, dozens more injured. today, putin is boasting about the attack and vows there will be more. he says this blitz is retaliation for the weekend attack on a key bridge that links annexed crimea to russia. joe biden says russia s attacks demonstrate the
dozens more are hurt. today, putin is boasting about these attacks and vowing there will be more. he says the attacks are retaliation for the weekend attack on a key bridge that links annexed crimea to russia. ukraine s president zelenskyy meanwhile says putin s latest assault shows a world he is a terrorist. cnn nick paton walsh is in onei targeted overnight. nick, what are you seeing there? reporter: what we saw here was a sign that while russia boasts about the precision firepower, it s hard to discern what the target was and clear it hasn t really hit it. across ukraine, we ve seen startling brutality, frankly. this is not the first time that russia has it seems targeted or killed civilians since the start of this war, but we haven t seen a level of violence unleashed across pretty much all of ukraine s major population centers like we ve seen today for a number of months, possibly since the start of the war. kyiv fundamentally gained the blunt brunt of this. carnage, m