i mean, i think i can tell you what i ve seen which is in the places north of the city, everything has been shelled. schools, homes, businesses, even here in the center of town. we ve seen schools shelled. we ve seen factories shelled. you know, there are some military targets have been shelled, but a lot of it are civilian objects. you know, it s hard to tell intent, but i can tell you that, you know, when you re driving through those northern suburbs, this is a really densely populated city in the north, so you have just blocks and blocks of residential buildings. and many of them just have these huge craters in the middle of them. i was talking today to the governor of kharkiv, and he told me that once they get access to those parts of the city, we might find out that things were
reporter: yeah, that s absolutely right. we were quite surprised that was happening. i want to show our viewers where exactly we are. i ll step out of your way for a second here. a little more quiet, this is the last checkpoint before we go into the area where essentially that invasion is taking place. so if we go further down into that direction, that s where we see a lot of the tanks go into or towards ukrainian territory, but really the only place they can go is into ukraine around the area where kharkiv is. you re right, john, it has been a remarkable day that we have seen here in the past hour, hour and a half or so, where we witnessed those rocket artillery fire that, of course, general mark hirtling was the smerch system, one that can wreak a lot of havoc as well and also seeing russian t-72 main battle tanks also make their way toward ukrainian territory, and, of course, the interesting thing there was they were apparently
because this is such a widespread assault, targeting cities across the country, there is this sense of desperation. the only thing to do is grab what you can, and come down to bomb shelters like these, which are, by the way, subway stations. yesterday, this would have been busy with people coming and going to work. today, they have won t up in a new country, and they have no idea any longer what their future in it is, john. hundreds of people with you, where do they go? you re hearing kharkiv is surrounded at this point by enemy territory, russia, belarus, the entire nation of ukraine right now targeted by air assault. clarissa ward, please, you and your team, all the people you re with, stay safe. we ll come back to you in a little bit. let s head now to sam kiley, also in ukraine. you are in kharkiv, which is the second largest city there in ukraine. and you ve been on the receiving end or at least outside of the city, sam, from some artillery
happens next. what is their new reality, because the reality is here in kharkiv, russian tanks are making their way here and nobody knows what their objective is. are they going to surround the city, are they going to occupy the city, we heard president putin yesterday saying that they don t believe that, that they have no intention of occupying the city. but there is so much uncertainty around this moment, and about what people s course of action should be. the streets are largely deserted. we saw people buying hi, do you speak some english? can you tell me what are you doing here? we came here for studies. you came here for studies? this morning, what was your reaction when you heard that very scary. what have you been told to
increasing. i have to say also appearing on social media have been claims that russian soldiers are also dying on these rapidly evolving and fast moving front lines. we just heard from our matthew chance there, just outside of kyiv, the belief of government officials is that not only will kyiv be surrounded, but that the russian military will come straight into it and try topple the government. so a lot of things changing there on the ground, sam. and clarissa, thank you so much, live for us from kharkiv. we do appreciate those reports. russia attacking ukraine as we speak. our cnn coverage of the ongoing assault in ukraine continues. get your personal points plan! i m james corden and i m here to tell people that ww is getting even more personal. keep on shopping, ignore us. i ve lost like 28 pounds. you look great! i love that my clothes fit better, but i just love ice cream a little bit more than that. the new ww personal points program is particular to you. so what kind of foods