known as the billionaires battalion, the unit help to push russian forces out of harkey. they lack in traditional training, but they make up for in equipment. what is your skill as a business man and enabled you to this is actually the enterprise. it is created not to it is created to kill the enemy. has ukraine been so successful in fighting off the world s second largest military? we are fighting for our freedom, for our way of life.
and see. in odessa, energy providers have implemented eight emergency power outages to avoid significant damage if the facilities are hit. cnn s clarissa ward was among the team of correspondents in ukraine when she witness to the opening salvo of the russian invasion. now, as the year draws to a close, she looks back at those harrowing early days of the conflict when it appeared moscow might actually topple ukraine s leadership. once we had a sense that the invasion was imminent, we made the decision to try to drive to harkey, because it is a city that is very close to the russian border, there have and a lot of truth buildup just beyond that border, we were getting ready to go to bed when i noticed on twitter that president putin was speaking again, which is very unusual. at that hour of the night picks a decision has been made, a special military alteration .
so, we all rushed up onto the roof, and sure enough, later, we could hear explosions across the night sky. it has been a few minutes now, we have been hearing a steady stream of loud strikes, it is not clear exactly what they are targeting picks i was not just in the city of harkey where we were in cities across the country which have not been anticipated particularly in the t. on the very first day of the or, we saw people flooding into metro stations and harkey, carrying their belongings that they had, or could possibly grab with them. this is an actual subway car here, if we can pin him, you can see dozens of people are squashed in, they are sitting on the seats there in the dark, there are children here . the really iconic moments for us will never forget, was
in the city of harkey there are also reports of explosions they are, the metro and the subway has been suspended. it does appear this seems to be a nation-wide attack by the russians on ukraine. this was not unanticipated, several days ago there was an attack on the base well inside russia, ukraine did not claim responsibility, but assumed it was done by that, it was only a matter of time that it was widely believed that before the russians took revenge for that, allison? s mykael wright, thank you very much for your reporting. to the travel fiasco for southwest airlines, passengers facing another day of cancellations today as the carrier struggles to get back on track. a pilots union representative says it looks like the flight schedule will be mostly full by friday.