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Russia and Belarus began joint military exercises on Monday, which have triggered fears in Kyiv and the West that Moscow could use its ally to launch a new ground offensive in Ukraine.
Where it impacted and it is a kh-22 cruise missile which is a missile that is normally used, that is it designed to destroy aircraft carriers. that is what the missile that they say hit this building and when a missile like that hits the building like this, you have the destruction that you see before your very eyes right now. and i could tell you being on the ground here, seeing some of the people who are from this area, seeing some of the relatives, there is absolute grief and anger here on the ground from a lot of people. obviously many people cursing the russians after this incident. but c...
Ukraine's army is trying to effect the russian army and get them out of the country. that is a strategy of attrition. forced decisions because you are defeating the security force of the enemy. so this is certainly not a stalemate. but what needs to happen, you know, unfortunately, a couple of things. russia has to run out of ammunition which i don't see happening any time soon. there are certainly indicators that they have less and less ballistic missiles to fire. but in this case, i mean, as an example, this weekend those kh-22 missiles that fred was just talking about, indicators are there ...
Really the death toll that was going up. what we're seeing on the ground here, wolf, is the residents, the people we have been speaking to. there's a lot of grief. there's a lot of anger in russia, but they also say the ukrainian leadership, that they want more antiaircraft weapons to try and prevent something like this from happening as this war progresses, wolf. >> these were residential apartment buildings with a lot of men, women and children inside. fred pleitgen on the scene. stay safe, fred. joining us now, former cnn moscow bureau chief, jill dougherty, and retired air force colonel,...
The ukraines. >> we're looking at this apartment building that is just gone. the hole where the building once stood. does it make sense that this could be this kh-22, this cruise missile that did that damage. >> absolutely. and as your correspondent said, they have a very large warhead. it is about one ton. they're designed, however, to attack ships. very inaccurate. probably the russians were aiming at one of the power stations. remember that the russians have conducted a campaign against the electrical system in ukraine trying to put the ukrainian people under pressure, maybe to have them su...