out with new details on the scope of its recent military drills and what role kim jong-un played in them . we twin in ukraine where two explosions have been reported in the country s capital. the mayor of kyiv says they happened in the city center and that all services are at the location. it comes after russia suffered a humiliating blow this weekend when an explosion damaged its bridge to crimea. a key supply line for his troops. president vladimir putin has blamed ukraine for the blast, calling it a terror attack. despite moscow s fury, a kremlin spokesman is playing down concerns that russia might respond with a nuclear attack. dmitry peskov was asked about it, but he simply dismissed the question. however, russia has been intensifying its missile strikes on the ukrainian city of zaporizhzhia. hours ago, it reportedly destroyed an apartment block, leading to several casualties. before that attack, ukraine s president said the strikes this week had killed 43 civilians in
theest eastern city of dnipro and zaporizhzhia as well. officials say at least five people have been killed, at least 12 injured. we re still waiting for more numbers on that. video here, this is a pedestrian bridge in kyiv, a nearby strike damaging it with this explosion here. a missile also hit a children s playground. you can see the crater that it left here. the mayor of kyiv is warning people to shelter in place. this morning the russian president, vladimir putin, held a national security council meeting after accusing ukraine of carrying out a terror attack that damaged that bridge that links russia and russian occupied crimea. take a listen. translator: we have no doubt that this is a terrorist attack aimed at the destruction of the critical infrastructure of the russian federation. and authors, executors and master minds are the secret service of ukraine. ukrainian officials have not claimed responsibility. meanwhile, there is growing concern that russia is gear
8:00 in the morning. so right in the early morning rush hour here in kyiv. and the early times there was sirens going off for a very long time. and then just blast after blast that took place as the rockets were impacting the ukrainian capital here. and some of the places that we went to were in central kyiv. for instance there was a playground that was hit leaving a gigantic kracrater and a busy insection and there was just a seen of carnage at that intersection with several cars completely destroyed. we saw some dead bodies there as well and the ukrainians told us that five people were killed at that place alone. and just to give you an idea of the area that that was in, this was next to a museum and next to a university building. it is unclear that there would have been any sort of military infrastructure there. there certainly didn t seem to be any. and the ukrainians are telling us this is a scene that is going on in many parts of the country here in ukraine. they say th
wow. dozens of missile strikes just like those. some of them deadly, rocking multiple major cities. many that haven t been targeted in months including the capital city of kyiv. across the country. critical energy supplies were struck. there was widespread damage and power outages that are being reported. but it s these images, a playground that was also bombed that provide a haunting reminder of just how brutal vladimir putin s bloody, unprovoked war has become. we have reporters and experts standing by to cover every angle of this. relates start in kyiv, with cnn s fred pleitgen. fred, were you not far from where that playground was. what was the latest there on the ground in kyiv? reporter: hi, there, boris, well, it s an intense situation here in the capital. and really, there are not many people throughout the entire part of the day going through. the mayor told people to stay inside and shelter if they don t absolutely have to go out, simply, because for such a long