The war is back in Kyiv
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 10 October 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
A wave of Russian airstrikes rocked Kyiv on Monday morning, shattering months of calm and thrusting the city back into the center of the war. Today on “Post Reports,” we hear from our reporter on the ground in Ukraine’s capital.
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On Monday morning, Russian forces fired a series of airstrikes on major Ukrainian cities, including Kyiv, Kharkiv and Lviv. At least 11 people were killed and more than 80 were injured nationwide according to Ukraine’s national police department. Russian President Vladimir Putin described the attacks as punishment after Ukraine bombed the Crimean Bridge this past Saturday.
Russia’s strikes come after a relatively quiet summer in the Ukrainian capital. Missy Ryan, reporting on the ground in Kyiv, says the attack “brings home the fact that [the war] remains an incredibly volatile situation…and puts Kyiv back at the center of this escalating conflict.”
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| 0:00.0 | This morning around 815 or 820, they began a series of massive air strikes in the heart |
| 0:13.2 | of Kiev, including to a park, including to a busy intersection during rush hour. |
| 0:21.0 | Missy Ryan is a national security correspondent for the Washington Post. |
| 0:25.5 | She's on the ground in Kiev. |
| 0:27.6 | This morning Russian forces dropped missiles there and across other major Ukrainian cities, |
| 0:32.8 | like Harkeev and Laviv. |
| 0:38.2 | The attack comes after a relatively calm summer in Kiev. |
| 0:41.7 | Some of the vibrancy of the city had slowly started to return. |
| 0:45.5 | Restaurants had opened up and kids were playing at the park. |
| 0:49.1 | But today, that changed. |
| 0:52.9 | And it really was this very jarring moment for a city that, even though Ukraine is in |
| 0:58.7 | the midst of a war, Kiev has really been very quiet and relatively normal. |
| 1:03.8 | And so this brings home the fact that it remains an incredibly volatile situation and really |
| 1:10.7 | puts Kiev back at the center of this escalating conflict between Russia and Ukraine. |
| 1:19.0 | From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports. |
| 1:23.0 | I'm Arjun Singh. |
| 1:24.8 | It's Monday, October 10th. |
| 1:27.0 | Today, what Russia's attacks on Ukraine could mean for the future of the war. |
| 1:43.0 | We were out maybe 90 minutes after the first air strikes struck this morning and we went |
| 1:48.5 | to the site of the first series of strikes. |
| 1:52.2 | And we saw mangled cars that had been burned out at an intersection with no apparent target. |
| 1:59.7 | There was no military target nearby as far as we know. |
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