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Significant attack in the west so far. they killed 35 ukrainian soldiers there and injured many more. that's about 35 miles out of lviv. it's sort of in between lviv and the polish border. a week after that they hit an aircraft maintenance facility. that was only four miles out from the city center. and of course today we had tease two attacks which seemed to be the closest to lviv. and it's interesting, because these are all very strategic places. they're military targets. they're fuel depots, aircraft maintenance facilities. and the russians obviously are fighting hard with the ukrainians on...

Flames. the question is how did that happen. the local official in belgorod, this is just across the border, said it was two ukrainian helicopters that flew in low, launched a strike destroying that facility. no casualties but a lot of damage to the infrastructure. if true, it's clearly pay back. it is a strike across the border on russian soil. that's quite bold in and of itself. the russians have been picking off ukrainian fuel depots with missiles for quite some time. this is a reciprocal move. >> pay back. what's going on around chernobyl? >> we've been talking about troops withdrawing mos...

Saying that they have no intentions -- they don't have their eyes set on kyiv. from what you're saying, you don't buy that at all but we are starting to see as you hinted there at this new strategy that's being employed by russia, the targeting of fuel depots as of course the ground forces stall whampt does that tell you about the challenges they're facing? >> the challenges they're facing is highly immorallized part. they will be going in with a 19th century style of territorial conflict. they were told within three days they would be marching down the main drag of kyiv with a parade. now the...

This is part of a specific targeted campaign and tactic by the russians because in the last couple of days, a number of fuel depots in different locations across the country have been knocked out by their cruise missiles, often launched from new ye naval vessels we believe in the black sea. earlier on saturday, they announced that they'd hit another one near mykolaiv. now, here in far western ukraine in the city of lviv, phil black, cnn. now with us from los angeles is robert english, the director of central european studies at the university of southern california. thanks for being with us....

The last few minutes, watching these attacks there, as we go right now to jacob soboroff. you're on the move, just outside of lviv, the city center. tell me what you're seeing. i know there were the attacks, lots of smoke, what's been the target? >> reporter: it's a fuel depot, alex, at least what it appears to be. you can see down below the mayor of the city of lviv says five people have been injured. it looks as though firefighters are spraying water on those fuel depots, as i'm speaking to you right now. again, this is a precision strike, coming at a time when russia has said just over the ...