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
this is a bridge that we need to cross. we need to get american contractors on the ground to operate systems like this. also to help repair all the systems that we ve given them in the past that are breaking. they re operating with devastating effect against the russians, but they re not able to maintain them. if we really want to help the ukrainians push the russians all the way out of their held territory to include crimea, we re going to have to surge logistic capabilities and get u.s. contractors on the ground. not only providing air defense exe expertise and operations but also to provide logistic support. you suggested there should be u.s. contractors in ukraine. putin is likely not going to see the nuance between a u.s. contractor teaching the ukrainians how to use this hardware versus actually being in the fight against russians. you think it s worth it? absolutely, victor. absolutely. well, he probably will perceive