AIR CAMPAIGN AND WHILE THERE
GROUND FORCES ARE MOVING ON
KYIV.
>> Martha: HANG ON JUST A
MINUTE, CASEY.
WE WANT TO GO BACK TO TRAY PIER
THERE ACTION AND KYIV.
>> MARTHA, WE JUST HEARD A
NUMBER OF EXPLOSIONS.
YOU CAN HEAR BEHIND ME, THE AIR
RAID SIRENS GOING OFF IN THE
UKRAINIAN CAPITAL.
THIS CITY IS UNDER ATTACK AS WE
SPEAK.
THERE WERE MANY EXPLOSIONS
TAKING PLACE IN THE NORTHERN
PART OF KYIV.
WE JUST TALK ABOUT HOW THAT WAS
PART OF WHAT APPEARED TO BE AN
EFFORT BY THE UKRAINIAN FORCES
TO HOLD OFF THOSE RUSSIAN TROOPS
THAT ARE TRYING TO MAKE THEIR
WAY INTO THIS CAPITAL CITY.
BUT THOSE SIRENS THAT YOU JUST
HEARD, A MESSAGE TO THE
UKRAINIAN PEOPLE HERE IN KYIV TO
GET UNDERGROUND AS QUICKLY AS
POSSIBLE.
AIR RAIDS ARE LIKELY TO TAKE
PLACE BY THE RUSSIANS.
GIVE ME ONE SECOND.
WE HAVE A HELMET HERE?
I CAN STILL HEAR YOU, MARTHA.
>> Martha: PUT YOUR HELMET ON.
WE CAN HEAR THOSE AIR RAID
SIRENS.
IN TERMS OF THE ANTIAIRCRAFT
ABILITIES OF THE MILITARY IN
KYIV, I GUESS IT IS ABOUT TO GET
TESTED ISN’T IT?
>> ABSOLUTELY PEERED THE
RUSSIANS CLAIMED THAT THEY ARE
TAKING OUT ALL OF THE UKRAINIAN
AIR DEFENSE SYSTEMS BUT JUST
YESTERDAY, WE SAW ONE ACTIVE
NEAR THE CAPITAL CITY.
SO, THIS INDICATES THE
UKRAINIANS STILL HAVE SOME
ABILITY TO PUSH BACK THESE AIR
RAID ASSAULTS ON THE CAPITAL OF
KYIV.
THEY ARE ASKING FOR MORE.
NATO SECRETARY GENERAL GENERAL Y
INDICATED TODAY THAT NATO
MEMBERS ARE GOING TO GIVE THE
UKRAINIANS MORE AIR DEFENSE
SYSTEMS, BECAUSE THEY UNDERSTAND
HOW HEAVILY THIS COUNTRY HAS
BEEN GETTING HIT IN THE PAST TWO
DAYS, FROM THE AIR, BY THE
RUSSIAN AIR FORCE.
THESE AIR RAID SIRENS INDICATE
THAT THEY’RE GOING TO CONTINUE
HITTING THE CITY AND THE
EXPLOSIONS OFF THE DISTANCE
RIGHT NOW, LIKELY A FEW MILES
FROM WHERE WE ARE STANDING,
MARTHA.
>> Martha: ALL RIGHT.
TREY, IT IS PROBABLY HARD TO
TALK FROM WHERE YOU ARE, BUT
GIVE US A SENSE OF WHAT SOME OF
THE LIKELY TARGETS WOULD BE IN
KYIV?
>> WE NOTE YESTERDAY, WHEN THE
RUSSIANS TARGETED A BUILDING
VERY CLOSE TO WHERE WE ARE
STANDING, IT WAS AN INTELLIGENCE
OFFICE FOR THE UKRAINIAN
GOVERNMENT.
JUST STAY WITH ME HERE, MARTHA.
I NEED TO LISTEN HERE. YOU CAN HEAR THE JETS IN THE SKY
YOU CAN HEAR THE JETS IN THE SKY
ABOVE US.
SOME OF THE BUILDINGS THAT ARE
BEING TARGETED BY RUSSIAN FORCES
ARE LINKED TO THE INTELLIGENCE
OFFICIALS IN THE UKRAINIAN
CAPITAL.
BUT ALSO, MILITARY INSTALLATIONS
ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE CITY
HAVE BEEN HIT QUITE SIGNIFICANTLY.
JUST LISTEN HERE.
THE MAYOR OF KYIV, EARLIER
TONIGHT SO THAT A THERMAL POWER
PLANT WAS HIT JUST NORTH OF THE
CITY.
WE HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO
INDEPENDENTLY CONFIRM THAT.
DO WE KNOW, THAT THE RUSSIANS
HAVE BEEN TARGETING
INFRASTRUCTURE AROUND THIS
CAPITAL.
IT IS NOT YOUR KYIV THAT IS
GETTING HIT.
KHARKIV, SECOND LARGEST CITY IN
THE UKRAINE IS ALSO TAKING FIRE.
THERE IS ALSO SIGNIFICANT
REPORTS INDICATING THAT GROUND
BATTLES ARE TAKING PLACE AS THE
LINE OF CONTACT SHIFTS EACH AND
EVERY HOUR.
THIS IS A CONFLICT THAT HAS
SPIRALED QUICKLY OUT OF CONTROL.
THAT IS PART OF THE REASON THAT
YOU HEAR THESE DESPERATE PLEAS
FROM THE UKRAINIAN
PRESIDENT VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY TO
THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE, NOT
JUST TO PRESSURE THE
UNITED STATES AND EUROPEAN
ALLIES TO SHIFT THE PRESSURE ON
TO RUSSIAN PRESIDENT PUTIN, BUT
ALSO TO PROVIDE THAT CRITICAL
SUPPORT IN THE FORM OF WEAPONS.
ANTIAIRCRAFT BATTERIES.
ANTITANK MISSILES.
THOSE JAVELIN MISSILES.
ALL USED IN THIS FIGHT AGAINST
THE RUSSIANS.
IT IS NOT JUST A GROUND
OPERATION, AS YOU ARE THERE.
THIS SIRENS BLARING THROUGHOUT
THIS CAPITAL CITY.
RUSSIA IS HITTING UKRAINE FROM
THE AIR AND THE GROUND.
THERE ARE ALSO REPORTS FOR MY
COLLEAGUE LUCAS TOMLINSON AND
HER COLLEAGUE AT THE PENTAGON,
JENNIFER GRIFFIN, THAT THERE IS
A CAMPAIGN TAKING PLACE IN THE
SOUTHERN PART OF UKRAINE BY
RUSSIAN FORCES FROM THE SEA.
THIS IS A MULTI-PRONE APPROACH
BY THE RUSSIAN MILITARY.
IT MAKES IT EXTREMELY DIFFICULT
FOR THE UKRAINIANS TO ORGANIZE
AND THEN LAUNCH COUNTER ASSAULT
AGAINST THESE RUSSIAN TROOPS
ACROSS UKRAINE.
MARTHA.
>> Martha: WE EXPECT THAT WE
WILL HEAR OF MORE FROM THE
PENTAGON IN TERMS OF THAT
ADDITIONAL AIR SUPPORT THAT
MIGHT BE PROVIDED.
OR ANTIAIRCRAFT SUPPORT THAT
COULD BE PROVIDED FROM NATO.
AND HOW QUICKLY HE COULD GET
THERE.
IT CERTAINLY FEELS LIKE TIME IS
GETTING VERY SHORT.
FOR KYIV IN TERMS OF AN ASSAULT.
BROUGHT BY THE AIR AND LIKELY,
GROUND ASSAULT AS WELL.
TREY, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.