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which hasn t seen this type of attack since the early stages of the war. civilians were forced to move underground of local subway stations as they await incoming strikes. kyiv s mayor says there will be emergency power outages across the city. russia s vladimir putin says this morning s barrage was direct retaliation for that attack on a critical bridge linking russia with the crimean peninsula. putin blaming ukraine for the aing ta. ukraine has not taken responsibility. this morning, president zelenskyy saying russia is trying to destroy us and wipe us off the face of the earth. the general assembly will begin over the illegal annexation over ukrainian territories. caliperry live in kyiv, general mcofry. cal. let me start with you. it was a very, very intense couple of hours. what s the latest on the ground there? reporter: so it was the height of rush hour. 8:15 in the morning, eight hours ago, when we heard a series of explosions. you couldn t mistake them for any ....
My colleague erin mclaughlin is, they reported five different explosions. in rivney, five people dead there. and the city of lviv, the city that is supposed to be safe, a fallback location for so many around this country, hit by a volley of rockets. the power at this hour is still out in this city. as you mentioned, tonight in kyiv, it will be dark and cold in some places. they will have to go to rolling blackouts to save the grid. a number of people huddling in the subways hoping the worst of the attacks is under. the mayor says stay undercover and expect more incoming fire. cal, more than 100 attacks? just stop to think about that overnight. and in the morning. more than 100 attacks. how were the defenses so effective? reporter: yeah. the air defenses here are excellent. they have been excellent for the eight months this war has been ....
To a let mark zoom in. this is the second siren we ve had this morning. we have not had any explosions, no air strikes in around the city. as i said, this was supposed to be the safe place. this was supposed to be the fallback location. for four civilians. it has not. we have had a security situation here, it s been devolving solely. there is a continuing to concerned that the russian army is taking off their uniforms and taking ukrainian uniforms to put them on. we cannot confirm it. but we have this, people are spooked. the security services are gonna be increasingly concerned. and we are seeing more and more of these air sirens, and security threat here. and cal, as we listen to that, i just want to underscore with you. that lviv was a place where the american and the sea and the places, as you said, went to get out of kyiv. because of the danger that was ....
Very good about, we spent hours select thing location next to a very strong building, protected by winds on two sides. so we also have a fallback location we can go to immediately if events warrant it. ali velshi is at the waffle house where they re getting word a tornado may have touched down. ali, what are you hearing? reporter: we had been at the site in the middle of joplin near where you were. and it had been sort of evacuated, because this electrical storm was moving in. we moved to the last place where we had seen people, which was the waffle house. as we approached a full restaurant, which is where everybody was, emptied out, people started moving into the back of the restaurant because they were getting texts and messages there had been a tornado the atmospheric pressure indicated it was likely to happen. an emergency worker then told me he had a confirmation of a tornado nearby, and really ....
Welcome back to breaking news. a tornado warning is in effect here. again, i want to emphasize the location that we have, we feel very good about, we spent hours select thing location next to a very strong building, protected by winds on two sides. so we also have a fallback location we can go to immediately if events warrant it. ali velshi is at the waffle house where they re getting word a tornado may have touched down. ali, what are you hearing? reporter: anderson, we had been at the site in the middle of joplin near where you were. and it had been sort of evacuated, because this electrical storm was moving in. we moved to the last place where we had seen people, which was the waffle house. as we approached a full restaurant, which is where everybody was, emptied out, people started moving into the back of the restaurant because they were getting texts and messages there had been a ....