have been never started. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is tuesday, october 11th. 9 a.m. in london, 11 a.m. in kyiv. people across ukraine on the verge after the heaviest russian bombardment since vladimir putin s russian forces invaded back in february. ukraine thought 19 people have been killed, more than 100 others wounded. just in the past few hours we ve received reports that one person was killed in a missile strike on zaporizhzhia. the u.s. says it believes monday s attacks were planned far in advance. when you look at the size and scale here of these missile and drone attacks, more than 80 reportedly, that s not the kind of things the russians can just throw together in a couple of days. it likely was something that they had been planning for quite some time. that s not to say that the explosion on the crimea bridge might have accelerated some of their planning, likely this was not in retaliation but was something very much a contin
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
the situation room. tonight, president volodymyr zelenskyy is vowing ukraine will not be intimidated by russian air strikes. our senior international correspondent fred pleitgen is on the scene for us in kyiv. sfw reporter: it was in the middle of morning rush hour that they hit the ukrainian capital and other cities sending people scampering for their lives. my hands are trembling as i ve just seen how the missile was flying overhead and i heard that sound. reporter: ukraine said the russians launched more than 80 missiles an more than 20 atrack drones. while the air defenses took many out, they couldn t stop them all. ukraine s president quick to condemn the attacks. translator: we are dealing with terrorists. they want panic and chaos. reporter: ukraine cities reported power outages after russia s attacks. the head of the presidential administration telling me they are working to get the electricity grid back up and running. of course critically for us it is
attacked this morning by an intruder who broke into their san francisco home. first word of this came from pelosi spokesperson drew hamel, a spokesperson for the speaker said that paul pelosi is in the hospital receiving treatment but is expected to make a full recovery. speaker pelosi was not at the home at time of the attack. the suspect is in police custody according to san francisco police. cnn s manu raju is following these breaking details coming in from capitol hill. what is the very latest that you re hearing? reporter: this is a scary and staggering situation that occurred, according to san francisco police, at 2:27 a.m. this morning. that is what we are learning that an assailant broke into the home of the pelosis through the back of the house and attacked mr. pelosi with a hammer. now, according to the speaker s office, mr. pelosi is in the hospital. he s received care and expected to make a full recovery. they give more detail in the statement from pelosi spokes
off in ohio with tim ryan. everyone knows why these races matter, control of congress, the first election since the supreme court ended the right to choice, and the premise here is of course the votes will decide the outcome. i shouldn t have to say that, right? the reason i shouldn t have to say that is this is still a democracy. so here we are tonighted in midterms homestretch, and this is america. it s not like many other countries where you have authoritarians or december cots that make it clear they don t intend to follow any outcome except the one where they win. take for example brazil where you have an autocrat who sound likes this. translator: there are only three alternatives for me to be arrested, to be killed, or to be victorious. and i tell those scumbags i will never go to jail. that s how authoritarians talk. he s basically saying the only right outcome is that he wins. that s abroad, but consider why i m showing you this as the first thing in the beat.