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Authorities throughout the day. this was published on his facebook page about ten minutes there. but you see a pretty sternly worded message there for the 1.4 million residents of kharkiv. this is the second largest city in ukraine. the mayor coming out and telling people don t leave your homes, don t go to work, don t send your children to school. it s been a very busy few hours since this all started, don, and there is no sign at this stage that it is letting up. and while it s one thing to be hearing strikes like that, missile strikes, one can assume, it is quite another thing to see ground forces crossing. we haven t seen that yet. but that is certainly what people in this city so close to that border, don, will be bracing themselves for. clarissa, so it s sporadic, these strikes, as you say, sporadic and then it is a barrage and then it stops for a moment? that s exactly right. ....
Antennas, sort of communications towers, and so this appears to be the first strike targeting that, that we now see on ukraine s, on kyiv s tv tower. you re seeing some images there, again, of smoke billowing up in the distance. it was a pretty significant explosion that we heard, jim. we ve obviously been hearing strikes on a regular basis throughout the past few nights, but this was louder than usual. again, not clear yet whether the tower actually collapsed. it appeared it was still standing but obviously some serious damage done to the surrounding infrastructure that ukraine s authorities are now announcing that those channels will not work for a while until back-up broadcasting can be enabled, jim. yeah. clarissa ward there, thanks very much. and erica, it s notable to see because part of the invasion plan, our understanding, ....