Smirch Rocket News Today

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just days before the election, who is kathy bartlett and could she win? and good evening, welcome to a special edition of "outfront," live from kyiv tonight im erin burnett and russia with a new warning and a massive show in force. this comes as the u.s. is flexing its military muscles 700 miles south of ukraine. thousands of troops from americas allies join americans for military exercises in north macedonia, at some point, hundreds of paratroopers to the sky to demonstrate how quickl...

International law. >> you can see more artillery rockets apparently fired from russian territory towards the territory i would say around kharkiv. i dont know if you can hear this right now. >> reporter: this is the start of the war. cnns senior international correspondent fred pleitgen witnessed artillery being fired from inside russia within jer avenue loves district, toward the city of kharkiv. sam kiley was in kharkiv and could hear the shelling moments later. >> could feel the concussion ag...

Flying and that they were accompanied by fighter planes or drones." you can see the hole that it came through. you can see the way that the rocket buckled when it hit the car. you can also very clearly see that this is a smirch. its not the only rocket coming from this direction on this day. less than a half mile down the road, another hit. helping to situate us, this ki kiosk, that water cooler. those blue doors you see, thats where the cluster munition shrapnel embedded. this video filmed mome...

Against civilians, its considered a war crime. the use of smart rockets are key in our findings of who is responsible because they are unique to one unit here, one commander. after years of forensic work, using social media videos to guide us, we returned to some of the scenes of the attacks, focusing on february 27th, when three civilian targets were hit and eight more on february 28th. we start in a neighborhood of kharkiv. "this is shrapnel from those missiles that fell on our neighborhood," ...

Cluster bomb. 1 1/2 miles away, another strike, more suffering, and no sign of any legitimate military targets. "people were queueing for food, and then something just hit. people started running here," she says. this is the exact moment of impact. look at it again. frame by frame, you can see the scale of the rocket and proximity to innocent civilians. we are here in kharkiv. notice the five hits along this line from the 28th. theyre pretty much in a line, apart from three here, which line up w...

27th. we can trace these lines 24 miles upon the convergence here, across the border in russia well within the range of a smirch rocket. we have a satellite image from the 27th showing launching position. notice the plume of smoke and tell-tale burn marks of a smirch launch, in krwith this information, we can tell you who is firing this munition, according to open source information from cnn, military experts and intelligence sources, they are the only unit in this district equipped to launch sm...

Us to see a smirch rocket that fell 200 yards from her apartment in this once affluent area. i remember the whistling sound of the missiles. i know that the missiles were frieg and they were accompanied by fighter planes or drones. you can see the hole it came through, the way the rocket bulked when it hit the car, you can also clearly see that this is a smirch. its not the only rocket coming from this direction on this day. less than a half mile down the road, another hit. this kiosk, that wate...