Likely, and one drone strike unless it has a missile onboard is not going to kill him. so all of that is part of what russia terms moscaroka. it s the word that russia always attaches to anything that s deception. you never know what s coming out of russia. every story out of russia has an element of disbelief to it. if they re publicizing this in the afternoon in the day after it occurred or the morning after it occurred then they re probably working their generation machine of misdirection or miscommunication or misinformation in all of these areas. it s always great to have you, general. thank you for having on. relating a healthy dose of skepticism around all of this until something is verified one way or the other. absolutely. we are monitoring all of the developments there. also nine people are dead
Administration officials is of course, ukraine is being attacked and they have the right to defend themselves, but the u.s. is not enabling or encouraging ukraine to carry out these attacks. the longest range rockets that was given to ukraine by the u.s. maxed out at 160 kilometers. they had not been given the long-range rockets they had been asking for and that is in part that they have not struck inside russia with those rockets and they did not want to provide provocation in the conflict or escalate this conflict. the u.s. is very keen to see ukraine again fighting against russia inside of ukraine. the backdrop of all this, sarah is that we know as nic was just saying that ukraine has carried out strikes before and in fact according to the leaked documents that just came out obtained by the washington post ukraine was planning to
It could be a false flag operation and it also could be a ukrainian strike and i ve calculated listening to your reporters about six different potential courses of actions that led to this. some internal to russia and some external, but if you re talking about a drone strike from ukraine, that s a 600-kilometer distance from ukraine to the capitol in moscow. it is very difficult to have a drone that long from that small of a drone and it could be a strike from anti-putin activist or special operators for ukraine inside of russia at a closer distance or it could be a lot of other things so we have to be careful about what we are confirming is our bias on the strike and what the results are. yeah. as alex marquardt was just reporting, u.s. officials are looking to gather more information and the line that
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Their campaign in in ukraine. i m not even sure that they need a reason to step up their campaign inside ukraine and never mind having to broadcast images which expose just how sort of just what a weakened state the kremlin is currently in. so, yes, extraordinary scenes. these will be viewed with horror in ukraine to some extent because people are concerneded about what the consequences might be and what retribution there may be for this, but there will also be people around russia who are watching these images absolutely astonished that they war that they were told was a special military operation that wasn t going to touch them, that has nothing to do with them, really, has come right into the center of the russian capital that s going to be a very, very potent message indeed from these images. very good point.