matthew, i understand you have some new video for us, new pictures. stand by. that s right, don, couple break things actually. let me just get to those images that that that i know we have got still pictures of. these are attacks that the explosions that took place at the airport a short dits taps from here just to the east here on the outskirts of kyiv. it is the main international airport. couple still photographs sent to me by the president s office saying there were five explosions at least at that airport. obviously, targeting command and control, um, systems. and, um, you know, various other things. surface-threat missile battery that is there as well, which may also have been attacked. there is also another airport that s been attacked to to the north of the city. um, which is a military airbase where fighter zwrets are based. that seems to have pounded, as well, by multiple volleys of cruise missiles fired from russia but within the past-few seconds, we have just had
force, it again opens up that possibility and is another sort of uh concern that we have to now have about what exactly is going on in ukraine right now. what russia is playing out, what their objectives are, and what will be the next step? you know, we do seem to be looking at a general-broad assault on all frontals in a multi-pronged way from the air, from the sea, on the land by one of the most sophist dated militaries in the world on this on this country. and this latest event, once again, is another worrying and ominous sign of what may be to come, don. all right. i want you to stand by because we are getting some new information in. um, video that will come in shortly so stand by. but i just want you to take us through the newest information that we have. those still pictures that we have from you, matthew. this is at the airport. explain take us through
these these image that we are seeing now. it s from the ukrainian president s office. yeah. well i mean, it s just something the office sent these. but the pictures on top the president s office, of course, they are of boris pill airport, according to the person that sent me them sent them to me. i am hooking at them now on my telephone because they were texted to me and little mushroom clouds, aren t they, on the horizon? obviously, that is the aftermath of what we now know are cruise-missile attacks. at least five explosions, we are told, by ukrainian officials at that main international airport. but five is a very small number, when you consider how many explosions we ve seen around this city. and of course, you know, i think i have counted more, like, 20. we ve been we ve been hearing big, loud bangs in various locations in the city. and we have heard air-raid sirens, um, air-raid sirens going off repeatedly. you know, apparently, warning of
airport. there is a lot going on. yeah. what is your assessment of what you are seeing? is this is this a bigger-scale operation than anticipated? well, don, where we are right now i think is sort of literally in the fog of war. i mean, we re we re hours into this, so there is a lot that remains clear but i think there is a lot of things that are actually unclear but there are a lot of things becoming more clear very quickly. i think there may have been a question, initially, as to whether or not putin was gonna go basically simply into the donbas region. or into parts of the donbas region, which are controlled by his pr proxies, that, of course, has begun to happen. we have seen softening of military targets in ukraine in preparation for that. but the thing that got my attention most was what s happening further north and west in the belarusian border because it could have been a scenario, whereby putin may have gone into the donbas region and said, okay, i have got what pre