Reporting live from Lviv, Ukraine on Saturday, CNN’s Don Lemon and his crew were asked to move back from the scene of a large fuel depot fire after multiple explosions rocked the Ukrainian city. During the report, another small explosion appeared to take place, and he and the CNN crew had to move farther back.
John Berman, reporting from elsewhere in the city, spoke with Lemon who was on the scene in a helmet and flak jacket. Multiple civilians were on scene as well, some of whom may have been displaced by the explosions, and officials were urging everyone to move into shelters during Lemon’s report.
CNN and multiple other outlets reported that there were at least three large blasts in the hour leading up to Lemon’s live shot.
Lemon reported that Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi called it a Russian military strike on the target, an industrial fuel storage facility in the city.
In a tweet a short time ago, the mayor reported that they are continuing to fight fires across the city, and that no residential areas were hit.
As Lemon was reporting, officials began to move people back from the burning fuel facility.
At several points the sound was out at the scene, and while Berman was narrating, Lemon and the crowd reacted to what appeared to be another large burst of flame, at which point they began to move back. As the camera panned back to the fire it was clear
No residential buildings were hit in this set of daytime attacks in civilian areas according to the mayor, but another long night will be ahead for residents of Lviv, not far from the Polish border. President Joe Biden, visiting with refugees in Warsaw on Saturday, said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is “a monster” for the continuing destruction and death he is raining down on cities like Lviv and Kyiv.
Watch the clip above, via CNN.