sergei, do we know who is actually behind the shelling at the moment? ukrainian authorities do not recognise responsibility, neither for the shellings nor for the offensives on the border. as we know, just weeks ago a group of militants entered the russian border villages in belgorod region, but ukraine did not take responsibility for that. they said these are anti kremlin units which consist of russian citizens. still they apparently have access ukrainian munition and vehicles of the ukrainian army, as they are using western supplied weapons and machineries during those attacks. however, it is not still recognised officially, and russian authorities are saying that these
horribly in the last 24 hours and going back all across the country here. for ukraine to attack a civilian target inside russia s just stab and could create tension between ukraine and its nato backers and the u.s. for attacking civilian targets because it has given them the moral high ground not to attack civilian targets to this point. and of course allies including the u.s. giving ukraine tons of weapons. but there is also always been that concern or precondition that they should not happen. it s not clear that ukraine has used, in fact there s no evidence that ukraine has used western supplied weapons to strike russian territory. certainly civilian targets in moscow. that could create divisions between ukraine and its western backers, it s already used such weapons to do so given all the purely understandable and justifiable anger but the u.s. and western allies have expressed due to russia s attacks on civilian targets inside ukraine. it s interesting that the u. s. supplied
managed to take down all the cruise missiles and nearly all the iranian supply. cnn got rare access to a key component of ukraine s air defense. the german-made antiaircraft system. translator: time is essential, he tells me. there may be three to four targets, and we need to destroy them one by one. the computer system makes it as easy as possible for the gunner to succeed. reporter: ukrainian forces gave us this video they say shows a get par shooting down a cruise missile late last year. yes! reporter: it s part of ukraine s increasingly effective, mostly western supplied, layered, short, medium, and long-range air defense, including the u.s. made patriots, that washington and kyiv say have managed to take
not actually saying the uk is going to give them jets, there is no suggestion at the moment that they are going to do that. it would be very difficult for the uk. apart from the f 16, there another swedish maker operating off rates, for ukraine in air force, they need runways. runways can be easily targeted by russian missiles, which has the whole of ukraine in their sites, essentially, that is another difficulty. the other thing is, not breaking the glass ceiling, it s about training, equipment, supplies, all those complicated things. ukraine at the moment, they are having to adapt to a whole new armoury of western supplied weapons, different systems from different countries, which isn t easy and that logistical chain could be quite long. it is complicated, it is not simple. jonathan, stay with us, we want to ask you another question in a moment. let us hear a bit more from
previously cooperating over the two calls that he had with the secretary of state down here, but he says there was nothing improper about those calls and it is a political effort going on here in georgia to harm him and the republicans more broadly. so once he made his mind up on that, he can stop cooperating. we will be circling back with you for updates in the weeks ahead. thanks for joining us. still ahead here on way too early, we re going to go back to look at the growing problem in texas after a scathing report revealed failure after failure in the mass shooting at robb elementary school. and in ukraine, russian troops targeting western supplied weapons systems. and extreme heat felt across much of the country this week and not just the united states. europe also seeing a record breaking heat wave. some experts are even calling it a heat apocalypse. meteorologist michelle grossman