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russian state media is reporting that two ukrainian drones were flown toward the kremlin last night. again, this is coming from the state-controlled russian media with absolutely no verification at all from the ukrainians or anyone else for that matter, and there are a variety of reasons why a russian claim like this would be advantageous to them which we will get into in a bit. and russia is calling this, though, a terrorist attack and also claiming that it was an attempt to assassinate russian president vladimir putin. we have team coverage on this breaking news for you. nic robertson is in eastern ukraine, nick paton walsh is in dnipro, ukraine, and major general james spider marks is joining us as well. let s start with nic robertson. what else are you picking up? reporter: well, what we re hearing from the ukrainians is they re down playing this, saying this is a trick to be expected from our opponents. they re saying that russia is trying to use this event o ....
A lot of forensics needs to take place, but there are a number of questions that come from this. it is about 500 miles from kyiv to moscow. let s say those drones were launched from ukraine, we certainly don t so this is a big assumption on our part. what was that says a lot about the russian air defense capabilities if you ve got drones that are on their way to moscow and they are able to get all the way into the city limits and are in a position to potentially threaten the life of putin. or to do some type of damage. another assumption, another question that comes out of all of this, was this a kill strike or was this a collection strike. were they looking for more intelligence or were they truly trying to get after and do a decapitation of putin? there are a ton of questions that come from all of this. what we are saying and what both of the nick s just described is the backdrop of all of this. clearly it leads to escalatory action on the part of the ....
Wholesale slaughter of ukrainian people and the bombing and bombardment of its cities, but, you know, i would like to see how long these leaders are going to stay. if even one of them stays for the next few weeks, that is a message to russia. if you do a kill strike on the capital right now, you re also going to hit another european leader and you risk pulling all of europe into this chaos. it also shows to me signs that there s support at home in the united states, domestically and from europeans. they support their leaders giving whatever they can in aid to zelenskyy, even if that means physically going to the country. and ambassador, on that note, this is coming as we re waiting for president zelenskyy to address the canadian parliament. obviously he ll be addressing u.s. congress tomorrow and there is more pressure from him on the u.s. to provide more weaponry, including soviet-made systems ....
Al qaeda s notorious bomb maker has suddenly gone public. cnn s brian todd has been digging up new details. u.s. intelligence officials and others who have tracked ibrahim al asiri saying he s andang russ as ever, he s working on more sophisticated bombs and planning more attacks, but a move may also expos him to a kill strike from u.s. drones. he s known to operate in the shadows, a master bomb maker on the run, but he seems to have broken his cover to write an article. he disputes an al jazeera documentary that alleged that are all of us spies? ....
Tonight the president as a candidate probably didn t realize how compelling the intelligence about the terrorists is. now that he is in office he doesn t want an attack on his watch. in the last few days the u.s. -led nato forces in afghanistan wiped out al-qaeda number two with an airstrike. bret? bret: ed henry live on the north lawn. thank you. there has been no kill strike ordered yet in syria. but the u.s. and many allies today took to taking out the country diplomats. james rosen has the latest reaction to the growing carnage in the middle east. warning here, some of the immanuals in the story may be disturbing. this freshly uploaded amateur video reportedly taken in a syrian city of houla on friday, the place where 108 people including scores of women and children were massacred. united nations human rights group says the victims were mostly killed execution style, ....