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crimea which it illegally annexed. it's monday, october 10th. i'm brianna keilar with alex marquardt. john berman is off today. officials say ten people have been killed. at least 60 are injured after this wave of missile strikes across the country. you can see all the different areas across the country that have been hit here. video showing an explosion near a pedestrian bridge in kyiv. a playground was also hit. you can see the crater that missile left. the mayor of kyiv is urging people to shelter in place. ukrainian officials say these photos show a russian missile that was taken...

Large-scale war that unfolded earlier this year. he was going to do this -- these targets we saw being instrument are two categories. one is morale targets. that glass bridge is a beautiful bridge that overwatches the river. the other target next to the playground, next to the university, it's maybe 20, 30 meters away from where i lived when i was assigned to the embassy. these are not military targets. there's also he was telegraphing this is where he's going to go as we get into the winter, trying to force the ukrainian population to compromise, to give up territory by going after this infra...

Kind of damage the ukrainians could do as the russians launched their offensive. this is not going to look anything like what we saw in 2014. this is going to be a combination of syria, ukraine, and things we haven't witnessed in decades. this will be a massive aerial bombardment, cruise missile strikes and targeting what i think are morale targets, crushing the will of the ukrainian population to resist russian aggression. so this is going to be a massive, massive -- this is shaping up right now to be a massive military offensive that is going to draw on european powers, the lithuanians and e...

In this case, the russians have been indiscriminate in general. but we have to assume that this is part of the russian effort to demoralize the people of mariupol, who are providing fierce resistance. and they do not care who the casualties are. frankly, in a way, part of the russian doctrine is this idea that they must work quickly, through any means, even destroying morale. that's when i called it when i forecast this war, as tragic and as barbaric as it is playing out, that the russians would go after morale targets to punish the population. and there is a humane element to it because it pr...

From ukraine. the piece on the photographer is documenting the war is out now featured with two special covers this week. colonel vindman, the brutality, the unsparing nature of intentional bombing a theater where women and children are inside, it feels like the juncture of the war. is that fair? >> it is. russians -- russian armed forces notorious to strike hospitals, schools, theaters. this is unfortunately what i refer to as morale targets. looking to crush the will of the people and the will to resist. this is the way they fight the war. from their stand point there's a logic to it. the lo...