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Downtown area. what are the types of targets that the russians have been hitting from the air? >> good afternoon, john. they've been hitting a number of types of targets, whether it's fuel depots, whether it's electrical plants, whether it's command and control kind of buildings. but this is going to continue until at some point under the auspices of the united nations or nato led by the united states in coordination with president zelenskyy and ukraine, that western ukraine is declared a humanitarian assistance zone which will require u.s. troops as well as nato troops to enforce that on the ...

Launched a helicopter assault on a fuel depot on russian soil on friday just across the border with ukraine. ukrainian officials will not confirm nor deny that attack. joining us right now is retired general wesley clark, cnn military analyst is former nato supreme allied commander. always good to see you. i want to begin with today's attack on that ukrainian refinery. this might be retaliation, right, after ukraine helicopters reportedly have helped attack a fuel depot in russia. i mean, does this latest strike demonstrate an escalation? >> i think they just demonstrate a continuation of the ...

It is -- it's interesting, but in a way, it's not unprecedented in this war. there have been at least two attacks by my count in which the russians -- in which the ukrainians struck targets in russia. one of them is this milarova airfield to the east of ukraine, and another one was this -- another airfield. they fired rockets at those. this would be the first time that they've actually not used kind of long-range fires. they've potentially employed helicopters, still operating as well as planes, ukrainian planes, operating behind enemy lines. i think there's a -- an interesting bit of signalin...

This attack was connected with ukraine. but i cannot exclude that can be -- we have in the previous years the cooperation before. >> what are your concerns, if any, if, indeed, ukraine did on purpose strike those fuel depots in russia? what are your concerns about what that might trigger if anything more? >> we are responsible to for our future and people. this is the russian fate for trying to pretend to present the

Large parts of this village were gone. people are living in their basements. when you have one country carrying out a complete open war against fuel depots, against everything, shelters, maternity hospitals. then i don't think the ukrainians would necessarily see it as an escalation to attack a fuel depot. no reports of any deaths on the russian side of the border but it certainly sends a message to the russian military and putin. >> if he's seeing or hearing messages, that's another whole story. thank you very much all your duty. and joining us is julie fisher, the u.s. special envoy to belar...