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Firefighters fighting the explosion. not clear whether or not that place was directly targeted. hard to see why because quite frankly, there really don t seem to be military targets out there, whether the russians were shooting a large rocket toward the city and maybe it was intercepted by a surface to air missile system. what we have seen tonight, we can see it on the screen right now, there has been a lot of anti-aircraft fire by the ukrainian defense forces here over the ukrainian capital. at one point, we saw surface to air missiles being launched and those anti-aircraft cannons being launched as well. and sort of illuminated dot flying over the city, unclear whether or not that may have been a russian jet, a plane, or a russian rocket flying over here, but you could see a big reaction from the anti-aircraft cannons as that was going on. so in summary, right now certainly a very busy night for the air defenses here in kyiv, and certainly a very scary one ....
For a lot of the residents, of course, who have been living through all this for almost a month now, don. no doubt, fred pleitgen, thank you very much. appreciate that. you know, right now, mariupol is a scene of some of the worst russia has to give, really. much of the city has been obliterated by explosives designed from maximum destruction with clearly no thought given to the people trying to shelter from the near constant bombardment that s going on. ukraine s foreign minister called russia s actions in mar mariupol, quote, a chapter from world war ii. phil black has disturbing details now. some of the buildings being destroyed in mariupol have been crowded with desperate people, civilians hoping to find refuge from russia s assault. the city council says that now includes a bombed school thought to be sheltering hundreds of people, including women, children, the elderly. have any survived? ....
And once again, i want to get to kyiv where fred pleitgen is following the latest developments for us. we have heard there s been at least one casualty from the explosions in the shopping district there. what else have you learned? well, certainly, don, isn t a very quiet night here in kyiv. in fact, there s a lot of action going on above the city in the skies above the city. since we last talked in the past hour, there has been again another air raid siren alarm that went off here in the capital about ten minutes ago. unclear whether or not anything had happened there, but you re absolutely right, it was about 2 1/2 hours ago we heard that heavy explosion. that happened about 6 1/2 miles from our position in the northeast of kyiv and we have learned, as you said, at least one person was killed when there was some sort of impact, some explosion, unclear if that was a rocket dropping, a missile or an aerial bomb, but it seemed to have hit a shopping mall, as the authorities here say, ....
It felt like, i grew up playing paintball by the river, and it felt like it was that. and looking on pictures in the news, at that point in time, it was. it really felt like it looked like the russians were in red and the ukrainians were in yellow, and that s it was heavy. it was big. yeah. and like you said, you have been in other combat theaters. you have seen a lot. you say you have never seen a war like this before. zachary, we appreciate you coming on the show and telling us about your experience. thank you so much. just so i can tell the people, if they want to help with the mission, operation overwatch foundation usa.org. if they want to help and are able to help and donate, we re sourcing medical kits, tourniquets and clothing to help send to ukraine on our return trip. thank you so much for having me on. i really appreciate it. i m glad you got that out there. that s what they said they needed on the ground. ....
Training. you were there to really help them with that. right. and that was not our intention when we went. but we were reconnaissance marines. we get on the ground and figure out what needs to be done. talking to the local military commanders, we asked what they needed, and they said they didn t have anyone that knew any infantry tactics. all their men had been sent to the front lines. what they had now was this new territorial defense militia that had nothing. and between mark and i, we trained troops in over a dozen countries. for over 20 years. and we figured we could help. we asked if we could help and they said yes, and they let us help. but yeah, you re right. they didn t have a lot of them didn t even have a weapon at the time. if they did have a weapon, it had one magazine and jeans or a track suit and a light jacket and sneakers or maybe boots. and we were training out in ....