KHARKIV, UKRAINE — The war was late, an hour past the 4:00 a.m. deadline set by the U.S. government’s last dire warning of impending violence — a final indignity after weeks and months of agonizing, paralyzing, excruciating waiting and hoping that it would not come. And then, it did.
Shortly after five in the morning, cities across Ukraine reported missile strikes on military installations and airfields. The first strike hit Kharkiv around 5:09 a.m., but was not audible from my flat south of the city. Not long after, a CNN correspondent doing a live shot at the Kharkiv Palace Hotel got an absolute money shot when an explosion went off behind him and he raced to put on his body armor on air. That’s the dream for the cable types, of course, when covering this sort of thing.
Jack Crosbie
The morning was a nightmare for every other person living in Ukraine. No one slept…
