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Correspondent clarissa ward. she is in kyiv where, once again, theyre hearing air raids, sirens. do we know whats behind this, what youve heard in the last hour? >> reporter: the warning theyll strike several sbu facilities, the ukrainian sbu, jim, are the security services here. we believe weve located one of those buildings and theres a secondary building that i think is a little bit further out. its difficult to say without sort of standing there on the ground what civilian exposure there is ...

Cities. i mean, theyre saying openly that theyre going to attack targets within urban centers. youve had a great vantage point there because youre seeing many of these weapons roll across the border into ukraine. what kind of mix of weapons and what numbers have you seen in the last day? >> reporter: as far as those strikes, they say theyll be using precision weapons to do that. its unclear whether or not they mean cruise missiles or something else but weapons weve been seeing here from our vant...

Increasingly across the country. youre going to pick up social coverage in the little bit too, thank you very much. we are going to go back to ukraine and check in with correspondent steve harrigan, hes on the ground in kyivs hearing explosions increasingly in the last few minutes. day is breaking there, what is the scene? >> we are watching cars drive out of kyiv, a lot of people waiting until the last minute not believing this could happen. its a cloudy morning here come weve heard jets fly ov...

Strategy to attack from the north and the south and east. you have to provide air defense and an air campaign. thats another thing. the russians have launched 250 missiles. you heard earlier a russian cruise missile hit an apartment building. they dont use our gps system that blue dot on your iphone is courtesy of the us military and russian dont have that. so those precision weapons and how many are on the stockpile? it does seem like they have been stymied in their campaign. of course they are...

Books that other countries do. that when the united states goes to war, there are rules and sometimes theyre violated, sometimes, you know, we have consequences, they go wrong, but they are at least supposed to be rules about the kind of targets you can kind of lit that have precision weapons for a reason, and nuclear plant obviously would be under no, under the no hit list for any normal country. for russia, either by intent or by accident or incompetence, that wasnt the case. and it just shows...

People and going right to putin to let them know this is much more than about sanctions and we are going to stay there and help these people for as long as it takes. >> it is important to point out that we are coming to a crucial time in this war where russian forces or it looks like trying to encircle these big cities and we could be seeing some edges that we havent seen on the world stage with civilians getting killed and a lot of it happening on camera. we are preparing for what could be very...

Military playbook. the classic russian military playbook of being completely reckless around very dangerous things like nuclear plants. >> and, we just had word moments ago that the fire has now been completely extinguished. that is an enormous relief. peter, whether or not the fire is extinguished now, the broader picture, where does this attack tell you about the kremlin strategy for war, now, where theyre going? >> this reminds us that the kremlin doesnt play by the same rulebook that other c...

Ukraine. check in with steve harrigan, whats going on? >> steve: that strike appears to have been on a military building one mile behind me. now you can really smell the smoke coming this way, it smells like a burning house. a number of strikes in the predawn hours, that is the most recent. air defenses trying to be hit by russian precision weapons. these loud explosions and noises have created a sense of terror for civilians here in the capital kyiv and a lot of people trying to get out of here...

I think there is a certain rational side to him. which is he wants to have this zone or this sphere of influence around russia. and that includes these countries like ukraine. georgia and others. that he wants really kind of sanitized of nato. so in that sense, he now has decided obviously that he will do whatever it takes in his mind to get ukraine under control. now the problem with the military with the russian military is they have gotten a lot better since the georgiaen war. and a more disc...

Is get frustrated and use inaccurate systems such as artillery, rockets and so forth and then perhaps some precision weapons as well. although as weve seen in a number of the precision munition thats have been directed at buildings that only have innocent civilians, regular government buildings, military location ands so forth. eventually i think well see what weve seen russia do in other locations where they were unable to use ground and air forces effectively together which is again also what ...