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Apartment buildings that have been hit. and they told people, ukrainians, to leave their homes if they live near what are called -- what they call relay nodes, essentially communications towers, and i believe, anderson, whthat's the first time they've asked ukrainians to leave an area or to leave their homes and that obviously is a very, very ominous sign. >> we also saw this massive explosion in kharkiv. what are the details on it? >> reporter: kharkiv, as you know, is the second biggest city in this country, so that's another major target for the russians, and it's even closer to the russian...

Although it's not clear what the status is of that now. we have had our report out from the minister of internal affairs. they said that this, basically, the tv tower was hit, the channels would not be working for a while, but that back-up broadcasting will soon be enabled. so presumably, most ukrainians not any longer able to watch ukrainian main tv channels. now, important to put this into some context, jim, the russian defense ministry had warned earlier in the day that they were going to be hitting several targets inside kyiv in the capital today and one of them, which they had mentioned a...

Worst. we heard earlier from the russian defense ministry that they can expect more targeting inside the city capital. particularly of spu. ukrainian security services targets, and also, anything, they use the expression, relay nodes by which we assume they meant, communication towers. that's a tv tower, but the question is whether we're in for more bad news. >> we're seeing these satellite images of a 40-mile russian convoy of tanks, armored vehicles, artillery. all heading toward kyiv. authorities must be terrified that a larger attack is looming. >> reporter: ukrainians are definitely terri...

Information and psychological operation center. they're going to be using high precision strikes. of course, this is in a city of 2.9 million people. it is densely populated. so you have to imagine that some people may end up getting hurt and killed as we've seen in the strike tonight. five people, as i mentioned, have been killed. they also warned ukrainians to get away from what they called relay nodes which we understand to be towers like the one that we mentioned off the top. so this is a significant development. the russians appearing to start to target communications, they say -- >> just...

Relay nodes translated from russia is a broad term but we understand it means communications towers, basically. it makes sense in that regard that we would see this television tower being targeted and also, of course, does not portend well for what might come tonight. a lot of fear here in the capital. we've heard the air raid sirens several times throughout the day and coming into the night. it's just dusk here, it got dark about 15, 20 minutes ago, and i think there's a strong sense for many people that this could be a very long night, kate. >> clarissa, i mean, people in kyiv and throughout...