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Acts of sabotage against russian forces. these echoes claims made by the ukraine defense ministry. and a number of sites were shut down this morning. this laptop screen shows the threatening message posted by the hackers. it warns ukrainians that they're personal information has been hack and to be afraid. >> cnn correspondent sam kiley joins us now from ukraine. so sam, tell us what you know about the attack. >> reporter: well the hackers, according to the government here, hit about 70 websites. i have to say it is low level. they've said that there was an infiltration they believe through on...

Numbers and estimates. we're continuing to seek more information about that. to get the number of casualties, if there are fatalities, of course, because announcing that is extremely important when people are watching this breaking news unfold. continue, please. >> so sam was describing to you the abbey gate which is kind of the main gate and there is a canal or sewage duct that runs sort of parallel or near the gate and i saw video of a very large group of afghans 20 minutes before the blast who were all sort of piled up against the blast walls near the gate. clearly there were a lot of afgha...

Fatalities which isn't surprising because as nick was saying, it appears the bomb was placed it seems near this sewage canal and close to the abbey gate. footage i've seen 20 minutes before the explosion showed a large number of afghans outside of the abbey gate. and the blast wall as sam pointed out would -- that they were pressed up against, would contain the blast and reinforce the blast when this bomb went off. so, the fact that i'm hearing reports directly from people on the the ground about fatalities, and not in considerable numbers shouldn't be surprising given where this bomb went off...

Location into the main airfield prior to conducting a complete withdrawal as part of coalition withdrawal. it is not clear as to whether or not they still had elements within the camp and there is flo reports about any british casualties from the cool side of u.s. casualties. we've heard from the emergency hospital in downtown kabul saying they've received 60 wounded including six patients that were dead on arrival. this is a hospital that cnn has visited many times in the past. myself included. very reliable source of information. indeed a hospital that historically has stayed through success...

Considered imprnot -- a lot of people who most of society would have been pleased to see behind bars were bibliberated. the question was when the taliban took over security, were they going to use the presence of the people in society as cover for carrying out attacks that they may have wanted to do themselves. no evidence of that, and they're trying to work out what's really happened. but it's also a major test, frankly, of governance. they control the main roads. they're the ones who presumably have to assist with emergency responders get getting to the scene. sam was talking about the emerg...