Watch the moment missiles strike Kyiv's Glass Bridge
STORY: Security camera footage showed shrapnel and flames engulfing a glass-bottomed footbridge that runs across a wooded valley in the city center, one of Kyiv's most popular tourist sites, and a pedestrian running away from the blast after narrowly escaping the explosion.
Reuters later saw a huge crater beneath the bridge, which was damaged but remained standing.
Cruise missiles tore into busy intersections, parks and tourist sites in the center of downtown Kyiv with an intensity unseen even when Russian forces attempted to capture the capital early in the war.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the rush hour attacks appeared to have been deliberately timed to kill people as well as to knock out electricity.
By mid-morning, Ukraine's defense ministry said Russia had fired 81 cruise missiles, and Ukraine's air defenses had shot down 43 of them. Kyiv city police said at least five people had been killed and 12 wounded in the capital.
