ukraine have denied any involvement in the bombings, which are still being investigated by multiple european countries, but erin, what do we know right now? what are the questions still out there as well? reporter: there s still so many unanswered questions when it comes to those pipeline attacks, chris. shortly after the news broke in the washington post and the new york times citing american and european officials that the attacks may have been the work of pro-ukraine groups, we did hear from german officials acknowledge that they have made at least some progress in the investigation. prosecutors putting out a statement saying that back in january they managed to search a ship that they believe may have been used to carry the explosives that were used to carry out the attacks, although the statement offered no further details in terms of possible perpetrator. we also heard from the german defense minister today say there are lots of questions here outstanding saying, quote, we
finally, the idea of moving tactical nuclear weapons, that s a really big thing. if those are moved within the range of ukrainian or nato targets, that becomes a really big deal and that could change the very nature of the war. that s on the russian side. for the ukrainians, i expect to consolidate gains around lyman and the luhansk region. they could also move toward kherson in the south. if they use weapons like the army tactical missile system and get fighter aircraft, that could also be a game changer in the war. finally for the nato folks, i expect them to ramp up the resupply efforts, counter hybrid war moves such as we saw with the pipeline attacks, which are probably attributable to the russian sabotage efforts.
against russian separatists forces in eastern ukraine, pipeline attacks, things like that, attacks on civilians, and the need for russia to respond. there are russian military exercises plan for this week, as well, is that correct? there are, yes. one of the other things that came up today is, we ve been waiting for kind of a date for russia s strategic nuclear exercises. usually they run those in the fall, they signaled that they moved him up to right about now. they waited till tonight to announce that, they are doing those tomorrow, and that is going to be kind of a big picture nuclear effort involving multiple branches of their nuclear forces. and vladimir putin, they made very clear, is helping those exercises, he s going to be the one with a suitcase on the red button. i think you can kind of safely interpret that as a bit of a flex right now, because they are still saying that they are open to the policy. as we learned yesterday, in their official response to u.s.
yeah, so this report comes from a us based group who, as you say, they are the ones who linked the colonial pipeline attacks to darkside, the russia based hacker group. now what they have been doing this time around as they have been investigating what they say is chinese infiltration to s of telecom groups right here in south east asia. they say the telecom groups have been infiltrated by hackers since 2017 and gained access to the data of customers, the details of customers s phone calls, as well as to microsoft exchange e mail servers. these customers, apparently, are of strategic importance to beijing. they have identified three main hacker groups all with links to the chinese state. what s more, they have been analysing the techniques, tactics
and they say the tactics being used and the groups the attacks are traced point to china as the perpetrator. nick marsh in singapore is following the story. tell us more. yes, this report comes from tell us more. yes, this report comes from cyber tell us more. yes, this report comes from cyber ease, - tell us more. yes, this report comes from cyber ease, a - comes from cyber ease, a u.s. based group who as you say, linked the colonial pipeline attacks to dark side, they are that russian based hacker group. what they are doing this time around is investigating what they say is a chinese infiltration of telecom groups right here in southeast asia. they say that these telecom groups have been infiltrated by hackers 2017 and have gained access to customers data and details of customers data and details of customers phone calls and also microsoft exchange e mail