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8:00 in the morning. so right in the early morning rush hour here in kyiv. and the early times there was sirens going off for a very long time. and then just blast after blast that took place as the rockets were impacting the ukrainian capital here. and some of the places that we went to were in central kyiv. for instance there was a playground that was hit leaving a gigantic kracrater and a busy insection and there was just a seen of carnage at that intersection with several cars completely destroyed. we saw some dead bodies there as well and the ukrainians told us that five people were killed at that place alone. and just to give you an idea of the area that that was in, this was next to a museum and next to a university building. it is unclear that there would have been any sort of military infrastructure there. there certainly didn t seem to be any. and the ukrainians are telling us this is a scene that is going on in many parts of the country here in ukraine. they ....
this hour. thank you for being here. i m kate bolduan. russia unleashing missiles across ukraine. few cities were spared in what could be the broadest assault since the invasion began. dozens more injured. v vladimir putin is posting about the strikes. he said they re in retaliation over the weekend of a key bridge linking russia to annexed crimea and accusing ukraine of terrorism as imangs like these are broadcast all over the world. the ukraine president is holding emergency talks with g-7 leaders today about how to respond to this. let s get straight to fred pleitgen live in kyiv. cities all over ukraine were bomb bombarded but look at what is behind you. even a playground in kyiv. reporter: when he was dressing the security council is that he said that the russians hit command and communications infrastructure of the ukraine military. but as you could see behind me, this is definitely not command or communication infrastructure from the ukrainian military. this i ....
wow. dozens of missile strikes just like those. some of them deadly, rocking multiple major cities. many that haven t been targeted in months including the capital city of kyiv. across the country. critical energy supplies were struck. there was widespread damage and power outages that are being reported. but it s these images, a playground that was also bombed that provide a haunting reminder of just how brutal vladimir putin s bloody, unprovoked war has become. we have reporters and experts standing by to cover every angle of this. relates start in kyiv, with cnn s fred pleitgen. fred, were you not far from where that playground was. what was the latest there on the ground in kyiv? reporter: hi, there, boris, well, it s an intense situation here in the capital. and really, there are not many people throughout the entire part of the day going through. the mayor told people to stay inside and shelter if they don t absolutely have to go out, simply, because for such ....
dozens more are hurt. today, putin is boasting about these attacks and vowing there will be more. he says the attacks are retaliation for the weekend attack on a key bridge that links annexed crimea to russia. ukraine s president zelenskyy meanwhile says putin s latest assault shows a world he is a terrorist. cnn nick paton walsh is in onei targeted overnight. nick, what are you seeing there? reporter: what we saw here was a sign that while russia boasts about the precision firepower, it s hard to discern what the target was and clear it hasn t really hit it. across ukraine, we ve seen startling brutality, frankly. this is not the first time that russia has it seems targeted or killed civilians since the start of this war, but we haven t seen a level of violence unleashed across pretty much all of ukraine s major population centers like we ve seen today for a number of months, possibly since the start of the war. kyiv fundamentally gained the blunt brunt of this. carn ....