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Deserves. >> reporter: hankisons attorney, for his part during opening statements, saying the shooting was, in fact, justified, telling jurors that hankison fired after he says that he saw the door was breached, he heard gunfire and saw a muzzle flash. hankison for his part is expected, dana, to testify during this trial and we found out the jurors in the case are expected to actually visit the apartment building where this all took place. thats expected to happen on friday. dana? >> jason carro...

>> reporter: prosecutors say he was not in the line of fire but the defense argues his actions were justified and responsible. >> youre going to discover that this scene was total chaos. >> reporter: hankenson is expected to testify in his own defense. >> brett is going to tell you that when that door was breached, he had a straight shot in that hallway. he saw the muzzle flash from the gun that was fired at the officers. >> reporter: the officers who were there that night were serving a no knoc...

Intensifying. and that it is widening. evidence like this, take a look. this is the town in southern ukraine. heavy shelling. one official describes it indiscriminate shooting at civilian targets. including a cafe and apartment block. russian artillery units 18 miles from kyiv. in a field outside of the village. you can see the flash of orange apparently from the muzzle flash of one of the guns. the british ministry of defense says the bulk of russian ground forces are around 25 kilometers from ...

Have captured the muzzle flash from one of them. not clear what the target was or what hour that was taken. i want to get right to matthew chance. matthew, in the last 30 minutes or so, have you continued to hear shelling? >> reporter: yeah, here in kyiv its been quite noisy actually over the past couple hours with big explosions that weve been hearing, you know, on the outskirts of the city, an indication of the fierce fighting thats still continuing, particularly to the north of the city where...

This is satellite image from energy company maxar. as you can see from the flash the satellite appears tuesday have captured the muzzle flash from one of those guns. however, its unclear what theyre firing at. theres also new video as well a fresh reminder how punishing russian tactics have been. it was provided by ukrainian emergency services and comes from dnipro. now, this is the first time in russias ifivation that they have hit that city, and its

Explosions as russian troops to make inroads on the ukrainian capital. and then, there is this. this is the town of mykolaiv in southern ukraine. you see it there on the video. heavy shelling as one official there describes it indiscriminate shooting at civilian targets, including a cafe and an apartment building. and there is no satellite imagery of russian artillery units 18 miles northwest of central kyiv. they are in a field outside of the village. you can even see the flash of orange appare...

This intense bombardment is happening -- or happened overnight in the town of mykolaiv in southern ukraine. heavy shelling, as one official described it, indiscriminate shooting at civilian targets, including a cafe and an apartment block. there is also new satellite imagery of russian artillery units 18 miles north west of central kyiv. they are in a field outside of the village. you can even see the flash of orange apparently the muzzle flash from one of the guns. and as russian air strikes co...

Shut and its designed specifically to create the simulation of gunfire. there is an audible bang. there is smoke. there is a bit of a muzzle flash. but theres no projectile flying downrange. >> now, sometimes in a movie, you would use this. but it would be inert. it wouldnt have gun powder, wouldnt have primer. you would use it because you sometimes want a tight shot of a bullet being loaded into a gun, right? >> sure. again, this is what we call a dummy cartridge in the industry. we manufacture...

Is actually a dummy cartridge. but were going to use it as an example of a live round. >> this is what a live round would look like? >> this is what a live round would look like. and so, you see that we have a cartridge case. typically, thats full of gun powder. there is a primer case or a primer cap at the bottom. and this right here is the projectile or the bullet. that is what would leave the shell casing, and get propelled d downrange in a live cartridge. >> and this? >> this right here is t...

Just so im clear, if somebody has a dummy round in and the gun is very close to them, could that potentially injure somebody? >> no, no, let me -- let me be clear. the dummy cartridge is totally inert. its the blank cartridge that makes the smoke and the muzzle flash. >> so, sorry, i used the wrong terminology. if its the blank cartridge, the smoke and the muzzle flash. i mean, if someones holding that up to their head or in close proximity, that is something that they would avoid doing? >> sure...