And Russia and Ukraine are
accusing each other
of launching
a new wave of drone attacks
overnight in the Odessa region.
Ukraine says Russia has targeted
more of its ports,
this time along the Danube River.
Officials say six people were wounded
in the strikes.
Several storage tanks were damaged
and a green hangar was destroyed.
In Moscow
meantime, the defense ministry says
it intercepted two drones
and what is being called a terror attack
by TV.
This video
located by CNN appears
to show one of the drones
flying above the Russian capital.
It happened
as more attacks are reported in Crimea.
Russia says 17
Ukrainian drones were launched
in his class. Sebastian.
Joining us with more.
What more do we know
about the Moscow drone attack?
Yeah, we're looking at two locations,
one very, very central
where the state media news agency
TASS reported in the morning
that debris was found.
The road was briefly closed.
This was very close
to the Russian defense ministry, really
just about a ten minute
drive from the Kremlin.
So this well,
the whole incident,
I think, is the fourth time
we've seen Moscow targeted with drones.
This has been a central location
we've seen since that very first incident
when the Kremlin itself was actually hit.
So that significant the second location
down in the southern part of the city
and nonresidential building
sustaining some damage.
Take a listen to one of the residents
close by about what she heard
Yeah,
I was asleep and was
woken up by an explosion.
Everything started to shake.
It felt like the whole building
had come down.
I looked out of the window
I live in the neighboring
building on the side
where there's less damage.
And it felt strange.
The damage was so minor.
Well, okay, not minor.
Any explosion is scary,
but it sounded worse than it looked
as it seemed like
the whole mall had exploded.
After that,
I looked online
and saw the amount of damage
from this side.
And we came and had a look from here
on the
So obviously, this no casualties,
according to the man.
No serious damage.
But we are seeing separately in Crimea,
as you were saying,
the Russian ministry of defense
is saying they averted 17 drones.
But the head of that region,
the Russian head, is saying that
ammunition depot
and a house were destroyed.
They are apparently evacuating residents
within a five kilometer radius
of that incident.
And all of this
comes, of course,
after a week of Russian strikes
on Odessa.
Ukraine's digital transformation minister
coming out and saying drones attacked.
He calls the org.
That's what they call
Russian's capital and Crimea last night.
Electronic warfare.
He says an air defenses are becoming less
and less capable
of protecting the occupiers. Sky.
So that's sort of a crisis
you're going to get,
I think, to a claim there.
Yeah, to sound that way.
More reporters strike
some great infrastructure
overnight as well,
this time on the Danube.
This as
Putin claims
that Russia can actually pick up
in replacing lost grain from the deal.
Obviously, that fell through.
Yeah.
I mean, I think
what's significant about these overnight
strikes is that, one,
there seems to be a fair
amount of damage.
The pictures
that are coming out of showing
destruction to grain
terminals, things like that.
Second is
that this is not the Black Sea ports
This is the Danube Port.
So the Danube ports,
the Plan
B, the once the Black Sea ports
are not possible
to use transport grain,
then they turn to those Danube ports,
which they started doing
before the green deal
kicked in
last summer,
which, of course, now
will become more and more important.
So that speaks to Russia
essentially trying to destroy that effort
on top of the Black
Sea ports and all of that
coming, as you say,
as Putin
wrote this article, which was published
by the Kremlin
on Sunday,
where he said, look, Russia can pick up
where Ukrainian grain
might have left off.
Russia will be able to supply
African countries with the food.
They need an attempt
clearly to soften the blow
to these allies,
which Russia
has been cultivating, cultivating
since the beginning of the war.
And essentially
trying to sort of
soften the blow of the fact
that canceling that grain deal
will really threaten their food supply,
basically trying to play both sides
in some ways. Thank you.
Well, the
US Secretary
of state
says Ukraine has recaptured
about half of the territory
Russia seized
at the start of the invasion.
Antony Blinken told CNN
that Russia has failed
to erase Ukraine from the map
and that Ukrainian troops
are poised to take back
even more land
as their counteroffensive grinds on.
Now Ukraine is in a battle to get back
more of the land
that Russia seized from it.
It's already
taken back about 50% of
what was initially seized.
Now they're in a very hard fight
to take back to take back more.
These are still relatively
early days of the counteroffensive.
It is tough.
The Russians have put in place
strong defenses, but I'm convinced that
with the equipment and support
they've received now
from more than 50 countries,
with the training
that their forces have gotten,
and many of the forces
who've gotten that training
have not yet been fully into this fight.
And maybe more than anything else,
with the fact that unlike the Russians,
Ukrainians are fighting for their land,
for their future, for their country,
Blinken also says Ukraine
will likely receive U.S.
made F-16 fighter jets,
but it would take months before
their operational.