Kiev Hotel Fire Amid Ongoing Conflict

Right behind me is a hotel on fire, bang on in the center of Kiev.

This is a major city with millions of people living here.

You can hear ballistic missiles exploding in the sky right now.

I'm going to go inside.

And this is obviously a deliberate attack on civilians.

These are residential buildings.

These are residential buildings,

bang on in a city center of millions of people here in Europe.

And Ukraine has been strategically hitting Russia for months now

in oil refineries and military targets.

And Russia responds like this.

And Russia knows exactly what they're targeting

when they're launching these missiles.

They're incredibly accurate.

And they put in the geolocations of apartment blocks,

of buildings like this, full of sleeping children and families.

And right now, thousands of people are sleeping in the metro stations

and sleeping underground.

And this is how people in Ukraine have to live every single day

and have had to live for years.

And one of the worst parts about this

is that countries in the European Union

continue to supply Russia with raw materials

to make missiles like this,

the same missiles that are hitting this city tonight

and killing civilians.

Again, it's vital for people to see images like this

because Russia pretends they're not doing exactly

what I'm showing you right now.

They pretend they don't target civilians.

Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister,

went on NBC News just a few months ago

and says categorically that Russia isn't doing

what is happening right behind me.

And this is evidence.

This is evidence not just of a nation that is deeply disturbed,

but a nation that's willing to commit terrorism on a daily basis.

And honestly, that's why it's so important to see these images like this as well,

because this...

Oh my God.

So it looks like the attack is over

and I just got out of the shelter

and dawn is starting to break over the city

and the entire city is filled with smoke.

And while the rest of Europe wakes up right now

and makes a cup of coffee and opens the curtains,

imagine looking outside and seeing this.

Imagine leaving a metro station with your family

and seeing your city look like this.

Imagine having to check which neighborhood was hit

instead of checking the weather.

Well, that's exactly what Ukrainians have had to live with

again and again and again.

Look, Russia are going to try and spin this a million different ways.

They're going to try and justify it.

There's one thing that should always be remembered

and that's that there is never a justification

to use missiles in a busy city center,

to use missiles anywhere near a civilian.

These weapons were literally designed for battlefields,

not places like this, not churches, homes, hospitals,

residential parks, nowhere like this.

But Russia, Russia did.

They did that on purpose.

And when you see this smoke

and you see how the city looks this morning,

remember that, that Russia, Russia chose this.