Welcome to the lead I'm Jake Tapper. We start today with breaking news. The world has

narrowly avoided a nuclear catastrophe. That was the message from the U.S. Ambassador

to the United Nations today. After Russian forces fired upon, fired upon Europe's largest

nuclear power plant as they moved to capture it. Video shows bursts of gunfire erupting outside

the nuclear plant in Inner Godar Ukraine early this morning. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

says that Russian tanks also fired on the nuclear plant, potentially putting millions of lives

in danger. Fortunately, global nuclear experts say there is no indication of increased radiation

levels at that site, at least for now. Today we're also getting a sobering look at the impact

of Vladimir Putin's war on innocent Ukrainian civilians. This new video shows the aftermath of a

Russian strike on the Ukrainian town of Chernihiv, or local officials say, a residential apartment

building was hit by Russian munitions, killing at least 33 Ukrainians. The individual who recorded

this stumbled upon a number of dead bodies just moments later. We're not going to show you that video.

And this is what is left of a village outside of the capital of Kiev. Ukraine's state emergency

services say a Russian strike hit several residential homes there, killing at least five people,

including three Ukrainian children. We do not know how many innocent Ukrainian civilians have been

killed since Russia began this unprovoked war on its neighboring sovereign nation.

More than two days ago, the government of Ukraine said that Russian forces had killed more than

2,000 Ukrainian civilians, not including members of the Ukrainian military. More than 2,000.

Our team of reporters has spread out across Ukraine, covering this story as only CNN can. We're

going to start with CNN's Clarissa Ward who is live in the capital of Kiev and Clarissa. There have

been large explosions on the outskirts of Kiev today. What is the latest, you know, in the fight

for northern Ukraine? That's right, Jake. We have been hearing a large amount of bombardment today,

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