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Talked about, it is the use of indiscriminate weapons thats intended to terrorize the civilian populous, weaken the ukrainian government in hopes it will capitulate. and second, i think it does indicate that the arsenal, the stocks of precision weapons that russia may have is perhaps not as extensive as anticipated. >> lets talk more, then, about the next phase of this invasion. we know that massive military convoy has dispersed, moved into tree lined areas, were also learning russia armored mil...

Here for safety. after this strike, youre looking at that right there, there was another series of explosions about 90 minutes later. and the mayor of lviv put out a statement saying some kind of additional facility was hit. we dont know what it is. they havent released details, but no residential area was hit there. this does cut both ways when you see how close this was to houses. the russians have enough precision weapons to strike specific targets. >> or they were lucky. >> i cant imagine th...

Russian forces are running low on air launch cruise missiles and may be trying to save inventory. what does that suggest to you? russia unprepared and taking them quite a longer time than they thought and theyre running out of inventory so to speak? >> absolutely. weve seen a number of leaks as well as just how the russians have designed this campaign that they expected to have completed this operation just within a couple weeks and have been burning through a lot of the hire ammunition like the...

Precision weapons to attack targets like fuel depots and aircraft repair facilities. >> theyre looking specifically to try and take away the logistics flow from the ukrainian army. on the other hand, firing of missiles, rockets, artillery, imprecise, dropping of dumb bombs from airplanes when they can get into the area beyond the ability of the ukrainian air defense to attack those planes, they dont care, hala. its just a matter of terrorism, destruction, catastrophic effects. they want to strik...

Conflict. so what does that signal to you? >> well, it is the first time that this has been used. but i would answer from the military perspective of so what? what did it accomplish? its a new piece of technology. its a new piece of equipment, but its not helping russia win this conflict or win this war. theyre going to continue to use their technology and their precision weapons to hit key targets, presumably some in the west, the western part of ukraine, but its not going to help them because ...

About, that is not stalemate. that is eroding and whittling their combat power and making them up front, including all the shells, artillery, and rockets theyre firing at risk. so that would be my view. >> so lets talk about the hardware then, and the use of this hypersonic missile traveling at five times the speed of sound. should the presence now of this weapon change or influence in any way the type of support that the west gives ukraine in. >> it is -- i would -- it is an added capability bu...

Far west, so close to the border of poland, that we thought it could not happen. but this shows putins reach. >> yeah. he can hit anywhere he wants in this country with one type of weapon or another. he cant hit lviv with artillery, with the dumb weapons that will just flatten a place. but he has the precision weapons to hit a fuel depot. >> what stood out to you most since youve been here? >> the resilience of the people, and the conviction that theyre going to win. utter conviction that theyre...

Very close to where people live. this was the mayor of lviv, talking a short time after these attacks. >> this is the second hit over the last week. and we can clearly see that there were very targeted strikes on the infrastructure. and the destruction is serious and the shock of the blast also destroyed a kindergarten, a school, and luckily, there are no casualties. >> emergency crews fought those flames, those enormous flames, at the fuel depot through the night. it took about 14 hours to exti...

Vulnerable to the ukrainian attack, something that the ukrainians at an infantry level have been able to do with the javelins and anti-tank missiles. t the russians are hitting back longer range with these precision weapons that they can, at least, they believe undermine the ukrainian ability to sustain themselves. so whilst they talk the big talk about shifting their whole operation to focusing on the east, thats you the way -- the window dressing of thats where they may fall back to because th...

0 good evening, im stephanie ruhle. it is now just after midnight on the east coast. and we are still following breaking news on the largest nuclear plant in ukraine. they say that a fire broke out in the training compound in the plant, after reportedly came under attack in the russia. tonight, the agency says that no essential commitment has been damaged, the white house saying that its informations did not show elevated levels of radiation. -- as russia steps up its attacks on several areas ou...