the better part of the day today, it is eerily quiet on the street. not many people out right now. the same thing goes for many other cities in ukraine right now. this is a nationwide attack that s been going on. the ukrainian president has said there s essentially two targets. on the one hand it is the energy infrastructure of the country. again, a lot of towns right now at least partially without power. also, he says, he believes ukrainian civilians as well as ten people have been killed across the country so far. of course, you see the authorities right now. they have this cleanup effort. they re still sifting through the rubble. those numbers could change as this large-scale rocket attack, missile attack happening throughout the morning hours of today. the number that i think gets everybody here is that the ukrainians are saying that at least 83 missiles were launched at ukraine territory by the russians. they say 40 of them were picked off. of course, they weren t able to
also tinged i think with a sense of resilience, too, that regardless they will carry on. nick, thank you so much. let s discuss with former ukrainian president petro poroshenko. mr. president, thank you for joining us this morning. are you afraid these strikes we ve seen across ukraine today, do you believe this is just the first step in a wave of upcoming strikes that will continue to strike cities that have been relatively spared for the past few months? first of all, this was not a strike against kyiv, and i m standing exactly in the place where a child, where russian missiles attacked a couple hours ago. you see we try to rebuild, to restore, take all the glasses here. this is just 100 meters from here, my university where i
how would you describe their emotions? reporter: anger i think. there s a man quite angrily talking to somebody else here about how this is just simply ordinary people being targeted. there s no military objective around here. even if you were to try to justify this telecoms building being targeted, it looks like it s been abandoned for quite some time. the roof is entirely caved in. there is a sense of shock here because this has been a war where russia has shown a blatant disregard for civilian lives. at times targeted, hospitals and civilians, too. the multiprong nature of this attack hitting every major city in ukraine with some exceptions, trying to take out power it seems. we think there s about 80,000 people in this region who have no power as a result of some of the strikes here. i think that s got people deeply concerned about a new level of callousness from russia, but
crimea which it illegally annexed. it s monday, october 10th. i m brianna keilar with alex marquardt. john berman is off today. officials say ten people have been killed. at least 60 are injured after this wave of missile strikes across the country. you can see all the different areas across the country that have been hit here. video showing an explosion near a pedestrian bridge in kyiv. a playground was also hit. you can see the crater that missile left. the mayor of kyiv is urging people to shelter in place. ukrainian officials say these photos show a russian missile that was taken down by air defense. president volodymyr zelenskyy releasing this video message after the strikes. translator: they re trying to spread chaos and panic. they want to annihilate our energy supplies. they re hopeless.
crimea which it illegally annexed. were you surprised that russia responded, something that ukrainians were so gleeful about? we are quite they are quite predictable, and we are quite ready for the aggression of russians after the start of this active phase of the war in february. we could expect they ll attack ukrainian territory. at the same time, of course, it was difficult to believe that they will attack the playground of children or the crossroad of two main streets in the center of kyiv or the bridge in downtown kyiv. it has nothing to do even with the critical infrastructure which is the target for putin as he described today in the security council speech. it means he s still not able to understand why his army losing this war, because they have