four people are confirmed dead, among them a pregnant woman. ukraine says it managed to shoot down 36 of the 42 iranian-made drones used in that blitz, including this one, which was captured on a police officer s body cam. the u.s. says russia s use of drones will factor in future decisions on how to best support ukraine defend itself. fred pleitgen is in ukraine. you are in one of the regions that was targeted by these strikes. what are you seeing? reporter: you re right, victor. we saw a power plant that was hit by the russians. this is something that happened earlier today and essentially the ukrainian authorities was saying that there was severe damage. it was hit by one of those kamikaze drones. they had to have rescue crews on hand. there was a large fire. they re urging the citizens in a town where i am right now, they re urging them to use less electricity to ration electricity simply because they have to get things back up and running. you can see behind me, it s
officials say that the administration will consider the u.s. of these drones when deciding future support for the ukrainians, what do they need to counter these kamikaze drones? they need more air defense artillery systems. they have the s-300 and they ve got these systems, joint norwegian/u.s. air defense systems, two of which are inbound in the next two months, another six, or a total of eight are going to come in over the next months. it s a medium-range system. the problem with uavs, they re low range. what they need is some low-range capability, and i submit to you that we need to look the united states at providing the c-ram system, counter rocket artillery and mortar. these are incredibly effective
united states and the nato allies do and where else is there a different way to you talk about the logistics chal challenge, to get things to the east more quickly. if we get the authorization from congress. we are spending $300 million a day on the war in iraq. thus far $2.4 billion, another $700 million. that s still less than ten days of the war in iran. we need to get as much equipment over there, talking about artillery, m-1 tanks that could be positioned in poland and other places to push t-72s into ukraine. talking about s-300s, air defense artillery systems, more drones like the switch blade drone we ve talked about before. we need to make sure the ukrainians can leverage technology to their advantage. they have a technical edge on the russians and we need to make
escalating tension. it s difficult to know what the intent is. it s a question you should ask the russian ministry of defense. but they are there. they are growing in size week by week and they continue to do nothing more than escalate the tension. the forces providing the weapons and support that you described a minute ago to the separatists sore that process separate from i haven t seen any indication they are actively involved in the provision of support to the separatists. i haven t seen that. but they are continuing to mass along that southern part of the border. two questions. that amassing of forces, does that include air defense artillery systems like the sa-11 that was used in the malaysian? have you seen air defense equipment on the russian side of the border in that build-up? i don t have an inventory of what they ve got with them, but as i said, we assess that these are combined arms units. it s not just infantry troops but they have artillery