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
it s always important to point out, max, that this is an on going situation, the authorities say. they say they expect further strikes could happen. they re urging people to stay indoors. they re urging people to get into shelters. the subway stations have been turned into shelters. we got that from the mayor of kyiv. at the same time, the ukrainians are saying they are going to stand strong. however, these blasts are very powerful. there s a lot of destruction around the area. i want to show you i was walking around here and i picked up some of the shrapnel pieces. this was confirmed to me by the investigators these are shrapnel. they seem to be rockets or missile parts. these have extremely sharp edges and those will just cut through obviously human flesh and bodies very easily. they also get very hot as well. and that s something that is literally littered around this entire area. if you look at some of the buildings here in this area, it s unclear what exactly the russians were try
exterminate us, to kill us, and we dignity of people and an army, we re able to deal a powerful blow, we re able to strike back. they strike back with any weapons they can get their hands on, whether those come from allies abroad or from their enemy. these fighters say anything that drives and shoots will be put to use against vladimir putin s invading force. reporter: that invading force is still pretty close to where we are right now. i told you, john, a lot of people in this building are sheltering in the basement of this building. it s probably a good thing. all around we re finding shrapnel pieces. these are all over this building here, and anybody, of course, who would have been in the path of something like this could have been severely wounded at the very least, possibly even killed. a lot of people saying because they sheltered is, in fact, why
the trial for the man accused of orchestrating the boston marathon bombing starts on monday. deborah feyerick has the details on that case. right near the marathon finish line in boston two explosions 12 seconds apart. it was the scene of utter devastation and carnage down there. reporter: the bombs kill three. rick ran the fbi s boston office. collecting pieces of shrapnel pieces of pressure cooker bombs, backpacks. reporter: day three, a break in the case.