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Explosions as russian troops to make inroads on the ukrainian capital. and then, there is this. this is the town of mykolaiv in southern ukraine. you see it there on the video. heavy shelling as one official there describes it indiscriminate shooting at civilian targets, including a cafe and an apartment building. and there is no satellite imagery of russian artillery units 18 miles northwest of central kyiv. they are in a field outside of the village. you can even see the flash of orange apparently the muzzle flash from one of the guns. now, in kharkiv, which for days has seen relentless shel...

This intense bombardment is happening -- or happened overnight in the town of mykolaiv in southern ukraine. heavy shelling, as one official described it, indiscriminate shooting at civilian targets, including a cafe and an apartment block. there is also new satellite imagery of russian artillery units 18 miles north west of central kyiv. they are in a field outside of the village. you can even see the flash of orange apparently the muzzle flash from one of the guns. and as russian air strikes continue across ukraine, the president of this country volodymyr zelenskyy in a new video address urge...

Shut and it's designed specifically to create the simulation of gunfire. there is an audible bang. there is smoke. there is a bit of a muzzle flash. but there's no projectile flying downrange. >> now, sometimes in a movie, you would use this. but it would be inert. it wouldn't have gun powder, wouldn't have primer. you would use it because you sometimes want a tight shot of a bullet being loaded into a gun, right? >> sure. again, this is what we call a dummy cartridge in the industry. we manufacture those here at iss ourselves and we put a bb inside of the shell case. so you can actually rattl...

Is actually a dummy cartridge. but we're going to use it as an example of a live round. >> this is what a live round would look like? >> this is what a live round would look like. and so, you see that we have a cartridge case. typically, that's full of gun powder. there is a primer case or a primer cap at the bottom. and this right here is the projectile or the bullet. that is what would leave the shell casing, and get propelled d downrange in a live cartridge. >> and this? >> this right here is the modern crimped theatrical motion picture blank. and you can see that it's simply a shell casing...

Just so i'm clear, if somebody has a dummy round in and the gun is very close to them, could that potentially injure somebody? >> no, no, let me -- let me be clear. the dummy cartridge is totally inert. it's the blank cartridge that makes the smoke and the muzzle flash. >> so, sorry, i used the wrong terminology. if it's the blank cartridge, the smoke and the muzzle flash. i mean, if someone's holding that up to their head or in close proximity, that is something that they would avoid doing? >> sure. in the -- the safety guidelines, it clearly states that minimum safety distance in front of a ...