There were explosions in ki. A military intostructure assets had been attacked, possibly by missiles. There was a fierce battle over the a hostomel thatrussa dropped its airborn troops on top of it and attacked it with attack helicopters,. craniang dropes troops, brought down a few of them. We have information that the russian forces are streaming across the trinoble exclusion zone and having captured the power plant. And we have news that the several, multiple ill 76 transport planes full of airborne troops are on the way on tokeif possibly, to try to behead the government.
Kurii Vasyl and his niece Yulya try to make sense of Russia’s invasion of their country. And Kyiv Independent reporter Igor Kossov explains the latest from Ukraine’s capital.
This episode was produced by Will Reid and Victoria Chamberlin, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Efim Shapiro, edited by Matt Collette and Sean Rameswaram, and hosted by Noel King.
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