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Reportedly are dead after russian missiles struck an army bar rack in southern city and yet another example of russia's escalating brutality against ukraine widespread death and destruction spread across to flee their war torn country hardest hit is port city of mariupol and russian troops inching closer triggering street fight and shut down of a major steel earlier today ukrainian president volodymr zelenskyy made another plea for peace talks with vladimir putin i'm jonathon hunt in lviv now back to one nation. >> lethal weapons on way to ukraine from the united states. including switchblade ...

Strike enemy targets from miles away, and fly much faster than the turkish drones that ukraine has been using to date. these u.s. switchblade drones are also small enough, that they cannot be detected by most air defense systems. now, these weapons are coming at a crucial time for ukrainian troops, who, today, according to ukrainian officials, began launching counterattacks against russian forces outside kyiv. and in the russian controlled southern city of -- these are areas images of kherson airport, where ukraine's military defense reported that they destroyed several helicopters that were p...

Didn't have on that list which think could be a real game changer is the switchblade drones. this is basically a kamikaze drone that can be launched by a soldier, it's electric so you can't hear it it's literally silent, but deadly. it can later over the top of th target. so it doesn't matter what kind of defenses you have upfront. when the this can be lethal there's only 100 you of these i this first batch, but i would suspect that is going to become the new favorite weapon of the ukrainians because again, they can also, with the javelins by the way that's an attack from above that's one of t...

Clearer and are a much better way of ensuring russian missiles don't hit the cities than any kind of no-fly zone, which is very manpower and aircraft incentive and could create a huge escalation of force. the other advantage of this is the ukrainians know how to use these systems. while they were part of the soviet union, they were part of their army. a lot of the experience on the use of these kind of previous russian weapons. >> and that means they could in theory start to use them as soon as they get them as opposed to having be trained, not familiar with. the u.s. will be supplying switchb...

That, and this is something that ukrainian nationals will never forgive never forget for generations to come. >> for generations to come indeed, where we on zelenskyy is a member of the ukrainian parliament. but we say this evening, but some of the night for. you thank you for your time. >> well, president biden today announced a new package, as we are discussing, of lethal aid to ukraine, including, for the first time, armed switchblade drones. can they help turn the tide of war? we are going to discuss with ukraine's former defense minister, after this. ter this as a professional bull-rider ...