400 miles toward the front lines in the east of the country. it is already dark by the time we land. we ll only have a short time on the ground but they are determined to show us the aftermath of heavy shelling earlier in the day. this kindergarten is less than three miles from the so-called line of contact, the front line. witnesses in the area said around 8:00 or 9:00 this morning they started to hear shelling. it was loud enough they could hear the whistle of the shells going by. two of them landed here at this kindergarten. let s take a look. at the end of the hallway this is what remains of the play room. the military says the first shell hit at 8:45. mercifully, the children were eating breakfast in another part of the building. this teacher tells me she immediately rushed them into the hallway away from the windows.
and it started a fire, causing global outrage. it s been condemned by leaders all over the world as reckless, horrific, unacceptable. it s been called nuclear terror by the president of ukraine. mercifully, the fire is out. we are told there is no increased radiation. russian forces are now in control of that plant. but it s not the only nuclear plant in the whole of ukraine. there are other ones, you can see at khmelnytskyi here, at rivne and up in chernobyl, which russian forces control, the plant that exploded in 1986. now, most of the action, most of the fighting has been done in the south, down here, where russian forces have burst out of crimea, expanding eastwards, encircling the town of mariupol, cutting off electricity, food, water, making an absolutely horrendous time for the residents there. there is a lot of fear and speculation in ukraine that there is an amphibious assault about to be launched on odesa. if they do that, russia will be in control of pretty much the whole b
from three angles from the north, the east and the south. now, the big news is that, overnight, russian forces, incredibly, have shelled the largest nuclear plant in the whole of europe, at a place called zaporizhzhia right here. and it started a fire, causing global outrage. it s been condemned by leaders all over the world as reckless, horrific, unacceptable. it s been called nuclear terror by the president of ukraine. mercifully, the fire is out. we are told there is no increased radiation. russian forces are now in control of that plant. but it s not the only nuclear plant in the whole of ukraine. there are other ones, you can see at khmelnytskyi here, at rivne and up in chernobyl, which russian forces control, the plant that exploded in 1986. now, most of the action, most of the fighting has been done in the south, down here, where russian forces have burst out of crimea, expanding eastwards, encircling the town of mariupol, cutting off electricity, food,
all over the world as reckless, horrific, unacceptable. it s been called nuclear terror by the president of ukraine. mercifully, the fire is out. we are told there is no increased radiation. russian forces are now in control of that plant. but it s not the only nuclear plant in the whole of ukraine. there are other ones, you can see at khmelnytskyi here, at rivno and up in chernobyl, which russian forces control, the plant that exploded in 1986. now, most of the action, most of the fighting has been done in the south, down here, where russian forces have burst out of crimea, expanding eastwards, encircling the town of mariupol, cutting off electricity, food, water, making an absolutely horrendous time for the residents there. there is a lot of fear and speculation in ukraine that there is an amphibious assault about to be launched on odesa. if they do that, russia will be in control of pretty much the whole black sea coast, cutting off ukraine from the sea. my colleague yalda hakim
fairly routine now, sadly, attacks in the west and northwest in particular. where an apartment building was struck in addition to that, the anti-aircraft factory was also hit with some kind of missiles. the strike that hit the apartment, the report was that two people were killed and at left a seven badly injured. the two people were found inside the building. just the latest civilian deaths in the ongoing, fairly random attacks across the capital. we were also in the west of the town doing another story that we ll bring you later on this evening. and about 500 meters away, another missile. this one was downed by the missiles. nobody was hurt, mercifully. there were a few relatively minor injuries. yet again another example of