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We were talking to you, when we heard the air raid sirens. in fact, i think i've got -- i want to keep you both here for a second. jacob, you were showing us the scene around you. there were buses, people walking around, there was some music. has that changed since this explosion? >> reporter: look up in this direction, beyond the tree and beyond the tower, you're looking at the smoke live right now from the direction of where that communications tower is. i think you can sigh -- if you pan off to the left a little bit -- you can see the communications you to cher we've been looking at since w...

The outskirts of lviv, do we know at this point what the russians are bombing? >> we believe this is a communication tower a mile outside the city center outside lviv so it is very close, probably the closest anything has happened, a bombardment or shelling or anything like that. this is one of the most dramatic things that has happened in the western part of a country of the country. you got to think about why, why is this "happening now"? why is it happening where it is happening, and you think about 48 to 100 miles to the west of us in poland, you have the president and other conversations ...

Something happening very far west. this is as far west as you can getting ukraine and this is 1.5 km north and northeast of the downtown center in lviv so huge development and you can see, looking at that picture the massive plumes of smoke, a communications tower. it is unclear how this could affect things in town or beyond with the war that is going on right now. neil: you point out, a lot of our top military officials have been theorizing that vladimir putin is trying to lockdown the land he has, folks in the houston part of the country, as close as you can be to poland on the other side bu...

What i see from my vantage point, you can hear emergency sirens, hearing them on and off now over the last several minutes. i'm several stories up, and i want to show you just how close this is from my perspective. you see the smoke rising in the distance. again, i have a perfect vantage point of the communications tower right behind me. and the communications tower seems just fine at this point, and we're waiting to hear if there were any injuries or exactly what happened, what target was hit here in the outskirts of lviv. again, for those viewers just joining us, the local official said that...

Messages where this attack wasn't whether it was targeting civilians. the latest from jeff paul who was there. what can you tell us? >> reporter: an hour ago we started hearing air raid sirens go off, some rumbling and started to see this in the distance where you see clouds of black smoke billowing into the air and we are told by our security team on the ground and it's possible two jets were targeting what we believe to be a communication tower. what makes it significant is the location of where this is happening and the time. you've got to think about who's close to ukraine and that is the ...