blamed ukraine for that blast, calling it a terror attack. ukraine s president has also accused moscow of terrorism after a string of russian strikes in zaporizhzhia. hours ago a new attack reportedly destroyed an apartment block, leading to several casualties. before that attack, ukraine s president said the strikes this week killed 43 civilians including 14 at this building. cnn s fred pleitgen is live in kyiv with the latest. reporter: just now, ten seconds ago, there were two very big explosions we re hearing right now. i can hear them very clearly from where we are right now. it s unclear whether or not that is incoming russian rockets or any other attack, whether or not that might be outgoing air defense rockets, unclear from our position. certainly it sort of americans with what we ve been seeing the entire morning which appears to be, to us, the ukrainian capital under full-on, massive rocket attack by there s another explosion right now. it seems as though there
destroy a children s playground. ukrainian official posted this picture showing a large crater at the site. all comes after russia suffered a humiliating blow when an explosion damaged a bridge to crimea. president vladimir putin blamed ukraine for that blast, calling it a terror attack. we ll go to first fred pleitgen live at the scene for us in kyiv. fred? reporter: hi there, max. the scene of one of these explosions we had a rude awakening when we had massive explosions we heard i would say at around 8:15 local time, which is 1:15 on the east coast of the united states. multiple places were obviously hit. i m at the scene of one of these explosions. you can see behind me there s people sort of working that scene over there. there s several buildings that were damaged around this area. you can see several cars there also severely damage there as well. those cars burned out. the latest that we have from the authorities here in kyiv so far, it s always important to point
past months. remember, we are still hotter than $2 ahead of where we should be. the biden administration still won t take responsibility, though, for why the prices were surging in the first place. we have seen gas prices go down in the past 34 straight days. it s higher when you took office, though. first of all, we have to look at how we got there. if you think about the war that russia has taken on in ukraine harris: kayleigh, where is her binder? kayleigh: she needs one. [laughs] harris: let s take a look at the numbers of ourselves. on inauguration day, gas costs in average of $2.39 a gallon. now it cost $4.59. that s with that plummeting after hitting a record high of all time, $5 a gallon, just last month. now the president has never taken the blame for any of it. he s been leading the charge pointing fingers at the russian president. well, watch. the current spike in gas prices is largely due to vladimir putin. his price hike pugin s price hike
consult known as the new green deal democratic party the socialist party and as we speak the biden administration are knowingly and openly lying to you, the american people, including their own diehard supporters about one of the democratic party s favorite causes. the transition to green renewable energy. remember, they steadfastly refused to drill and to frac and they want to import oil from iran and venezuela and saudi arabia and opec. watch. we have a chance here to make a fundamental turn toward renewable energy, electric vehicles and not just electric vehicles but across the board. ultimately we really do need to invest in renewables. until we achieve a form of energy independence based on clean energy at home american citizens will still be vulnerable to wild price hikes like we re seeing new due to putin s war. as he said this clean energy transition could be the peace project of our time. the way in which we can assure reasonable energy expenses for househo
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