us in the united states and all around the world, i m max foster in london. just ahead will you accept the results of your election in november? i m going to win the election, and i will accept that result. the president lied about the election fundamentally. she couldn t answer. she didn t answer. the united states president told them to go there. we expect him to come in because he has a legal obligation to come in. he is going to re-evaluate our relationship with saudi arabia because they did side with russia against the interests of the american people. everything is going up. double and triple. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. monday, october 17th, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 11:00 a.m. in kyiv where at least four explosions have rocked the ukrainian capital and officials say russia s latest attacks have been carried out by kamakazi drones. the city s mayor says rescue operations are under way where two people rem
the united states and around the world. it s monday, october 17th. i m christine romans. we begin in ukraine s capital where rescue operations are under way right now after russian forces attacked just a short time ago using kamakazi drones. that s according to ukrainian officials. the city of kyiv hit at least four times. i want to get straight to cnn s clarissa ward. she is on the streets of downtown kyiv. clarissa, what are you seeing? what do we know? reporter: so, christine, we re here at the sites of one of those four explosions that woke kyiv up this morning. and i think you can see behind me this is an on going rescue effort. this is quite clearly a residential building. we have already seen one body being removed from here. we also saw another elderly woman being rescued from the rubble, actually from the balcony on the neighboring building. we just spoke with the head of the ambulance services who says they don t know for sure but they do believe it s likely that
Ukrainian capital and officials say russia s latest attacks have been carried out by kamakazi drones. the city s mayor says rescue operations are under way where two people remain under rubble and 18 others rescued. president volodymyr zelenskyy says russia s attack on ukrainian cities won t be able to break us. clarissa ward in kyiv and claire sebastian in london. reporter: hi, max. that s right. we re at the scene of one of those blasts. you can probably see behind me quite a lot of smoke still coming from that area where, according to ukrainian authorities, a residential building was hit. the mayor of kyiv saying that 18 people were rescued from that people. that two people are still believed to be trapped beneath the rubble. that s why you re seeing this on going, significant rescue effort.
The united states and around the world. it s monday, october 17th. i m christine romans. we begin in ukraine s capital where rescue operations are under way right now after russian forces attacked just a short time ago using kamakazi drones. that s according to ukrainian officials. the city of kyiv hit at least four times. i want to get straight to cnn s clarissa ward. she is on the streets of downtown kyiv. clarissa, what are you seeing? what do we know? reporter: so, christine, we re here at the sites of one of those four explosions that woke kyiv up this morning. and i think you can see behind me this is an on going rescue effort. this is quite clearly a residential building. we have already seen one body being removed from here. we also saw another elderly woman being rescued from the rubble, actually from the balcony on the neighboring building.
There are police here. there are paramedics here. you ve got the fire department just over here trying to get more water to put out those flames which have been burning now for several hours. these blasts were the result of the so-called kamakazi drones, iranian drones that have really been wreaking havoc on the battlefield here in ukraine for just about a month now. and while there were at least four explosions of drones that successfully hit targets, though not necessarily the intended targets, ukrainian authorities are saying that another 15 were intercepted inbound for the capital alone and 26 around the country. so just giving you a sense, max, of the scale of the battle that ukrainians are now up against, really using the full power of their air defense systems to stop these drone attacks and