Chernobyl Attack News Today

People here are waking up absolutely terrified and worth keeping in mind that this is something that people here would be absolutely unthinkable. even military experts, up until yesterday, were telling me that they did not think that russian president vladimir putin would go after the ukrainian capital. they were well aware of the military presence, some 30,000 russian troops moved into the neighboring belarus. which is about 3 to 4-hour drive from here at the border. and so they knew that the t...

>> hey ali, we are hearing from some shelling in the background. we are kind of trying to figure out where it is. im not sure if you can hear. >> i can hear, yeah. >> it still sounds pretty distant. but it is ongoing. again though, ali, this city, you just dont get the same impression of my colleague would say. you dont get the same impression that people are fleeing. you are starting to see public transportation working. its don here, taxes are circulating in the streets. but we are still heari...

President, was in the form of a paper statement, just about an hour ago, which began that the thoughts and prayers of the entire world war with the people of ukraine. and then we heard in that statement from the president, much of what we have been hearing from the president from the last few weeks. laying this entire conflict, this entire conference, square at the hands of putin. saying that it is putin who has chosen to make an unprovoked and unjustified attack. that this is putin who is alone...

Shots through. they were able to be hit by the land, the sea, and the air. as has been described, this was exactly as has been briefed to us by the white house and the state department in the pentagon. and a series of steps, this is phase two. it will be the final stage, the tanks. but it was the misinformation, the disinformation, the false flag operations, claiming that they were under attack. the russian speakers in eastern ukraine. the cyberattacks which have been periodic. involved and iden...

Which is now what russia says it is providing. military assistance to protect russia inside with russians has decided as two independent republics. nobody in the world recognizes those places as being independent republics. i want to bring andrea mitchell and, foreign correspondent. obviously, andrea, this is a very difficult situation for the world, the united nations, the state department. because the uniteds entire nation was set up on the promise that countries do not roll into other countri...

The chernobyl and repression and others remember a time of a full albeit simple employment. >> richard we are going to stick close to you this morning as it starts. as we get any information, can always wait in front of the camera, we will go right back to kyiv now. weve heard a large explosion in kyiv, i want to go right back to air mclaughlin there, and what do you got? >> yet a now theyre large boom. another indication that this capital is under attack. again, we heard from an advisor to the ...

Website. that attack was bigger than the attack that we saw just yesterday targeting a specific website. so that when we try those websites, we were able to access them. it seems like the bigger cyber attack actually happened last week. again, this is a country that has been dealing with hyper warfare tactics for the past eight years. hybrid warfare tactics designed to create instability. designed to create confusion, there have been bomb threats called on metro stations on a regular basis. even...

Date. how to evacuate the wounded, how to fire a weapon. and speaking to people there, they were saying we are preparing for the worst. but we really do not think they are going to go after the capitol. better to be safe than sorry. and they are facing a completely different reality right now ali. >> youve been reporting all evening, that youve not heard, youve not heard the sirens. he does have that siren system. matt bradley had the same thing. he has already on the government provided any exp...

History under the soviet union, but they see that as a terrible history. a past that they want to break from. when ukraine was under the soviet union, people here faced famine and imposed itself and force famine by stalin. and when people complain about the famine, stalin blamed them for college in the family and caused a repression that is described as the -- in which several million, 3 to 5, most people around 4 million, people died. then there was the chernobyl attack. and it wasnt until 1991...

So yes that is what he is saying at this time. we have yet to hear, i read to the tweet from the ukrainian foreign minister. he did not explicitly say in that tweet that keep us under attack. but certainly that seems to be the case, given what i am hearing. >> and you are hearing the things that sound like explosions at intervals of a few minutes in between? >> i would say the explosions are all about 15 minutes apart at this point. earlier in the hour i was hearing explosions to my left. now i ...