nuclear facility that they attacked and plant officials saying technicians are working now at gun point. i want to go now to cnn international correspondent michael holmes in levive, ukraine and our senior white house correspondent phil mattingly live from the white house. michael, i'll start with you in lviv. the pentagon is saying russia fired more than 500 missiles in ukraine and western intelligence officials telling cnn that the u.s. and nato believe that russia now plans to, quote, bombard cities into submission. talk about the toll that could take on the ordinary people who are helping to fight for their country. >> hi, don. it's frightening, isn't it, just those words, chilling, this intel moving to bombard ukrainian cities into submission. just those words. as we have discussed in the past you can look at grozni and chechnya, aleppo in syria, and