the capital. we heard a large blast and then since then for the past seven, eight minutes there s been this pulsing glow in the distance. you have to imagine that it is some kind of fire. it is a very eerie scene. this city is right now completely quiet. it has been quiet for quite sometime and then every so often that silence is pierced by sounds of fighting or war, gun fire or thuds in the distance. this was an explosion that was relatively close by. we don t know the target but that is the general direction, general location of kyiv s second airport. it is a location that we have been looking at today because there was a missile or a rocket that hit a residential building near that airport. and that was the main incident today i would say.
acknowledging that he is russia s target number one, but vows to fight. you heard the former president, poroshenko, saying, you know, he is proud for all ukrainians to be there and continue to fight. what are you hearing now that the curfew is in place? is it silent or are people in position or is there any sign of russians nearby? reporter: well, fred, this curfew is now an hour in and it s not just an overnight curfew, they re trying to keep ukrainians off the streets. it is going for 48 hours until at least monday evening. that is a recognition of how significant the danger and threat are to this city from russian forces. in just the past few moments, we have heard back-to-back thuds, explosions coming from the eastern part of the city, which is directly behind me and just moments ago, gunfire from over there, towards the north. so we are continuing to hear the sounds of this fighting.
stretcher to try to get this person out to safety. just an extraordinary scene of bravery, of people in this community rallying together, trying to help this poor woman who is obviously having difficulty walking with whatever resources they possibly can, john. clarissa, if you can, if you re safe, i would like you to stay with us a little longer. i just did hear some thuds in the background. i can t hear the artillery there. to our audience, i want to say, i do understand these images are disturbing, but i think it s a disservice to try to sanitize the horrors of war here. this is what is happening to the people of ukraine now. they are suffering so badly, and i do think it is important to see that. clarissa, just from a military standpoint, we know there had been this idea of a humanitarian corridor from the south in
i m hala gorani reporting live from lviv, ukraine. ukrainian authorities say russian attacks against civilians have increased in intensity in recent days. russian shells hit a sprawling market in kharkiv near the russian border. kharkiv s mayor says a rescue worker is fighting this blaze was killed. at least 21 people were reported killed in other attacks in the city. in chernihiv, at least 53 people have died since wednesday. rescue workers clearing bombing debris discovered the bodies of a family of five an entire family. the youngest victims were 3 years old. and in the kyiv coastal city of mariupol, survivors have started to emerge from the basement of that bombed-out theater. authorities say more than a thousand people were sheltering inside when it was hit by a russian bomb. it is not clear how many survived the attack. meanwhile, i am hearing some thuds in the distance here. i i have got to tell you. russia wants the world to
there was one of those salvos being fired towards the russian positions. it s really something that even as we were going to air here, we kept hearing those outstanding thuds that seemed to be artillery. certainly, the ukrainian authorities here, they re not really willing to tell us too much. i think they don t want to give away some of their military secrets and quite frankly, they believe some of these gains could be reversed. they re still fragile. nevertheless, they believe they have the russians on the back foot at least in the area around ukraine s capital, kyiv. one of the reasons why they re able to bring some of their artillery to bear is because the russian air force can t really operate here above the ukrainian capital unimpeded. one of the main reasons for that is because the ukrainian air force is able to still fend them off. we were able to speak to a ukrainian air force pilot who flies a fighter jet. here s what he told us.