deafening bang as if a huge bolt of lightning had struck somewhere near. the attack was immediately blamed on ukraine, which reels daily from russian air assaults. [speaking non-english] translator: this morning, the kyiv regime carried out a terrorist attack on the moscow region. i will stress, aimed at civilian targets. in total, eight airplane type drones were used, all of them were brought down. kyiv was coy about its role in this drastic escalation. translator: of course, we enjoy watching an increase in attacks, but of course we have nothing to do directly with it. what is growing in russia is the comic payment that russia will pay more highly for everything it does in ukraine. ukraine is threatening an offensive to drive russian troops out. part of its tactics have been increased efforts to destabilize moscow s forces. a cross border raid by anti-putin russian dissidents was backed by ukraine last
fog interest start of ukraine s expected counter-offensive. more on all of it from cnn s sam kiley. reporter: same war, different capital. moscow hit by a squadron of eight drones. translator: there was a deafening bang, as though a huge ball of lightning had struck somewhere near. reporter: the attack was immediately blamed on ukraine, which reels daily from russian air assaults. translator: this morning the kyiv regime carried out a terrorist attack on the moscow region, and i will stress, aimed at civilian targets. in total, eight airplane type drones were used. all of them were brought down. reporter: kyiv was coy about its role in this drastic escalation. of course, we enjoy watching and predicting an increase in attacks. but of course we have nothing directly to do with it. what is growing in russia is the comic payment it will pay more
squarely on ukraine and vowing to retaliate with, quote, the most severe measures. cnn s sam kylie has our report. reporter: same war, different capital. moscow hit by a squadron of eight drones. translator: there was a deafening bang as if a huge bolt of lightening had struck somewhere near. reporter: the attack was immediately blamed on ukraine which reels daily from russian air assaults. translator: this morning the kyiv regime carried out a terrorist attack on the moscow region, and i will stress aimed at civilian targets. in total eight airplane-type drones were used. all of them were brought down. reporter: kyiv was coy about its role in this drastic escalation. translator: of course we enjoy watching and predicting an increase in attacks, but of course we have nothing to do directly with it. what is growing in russia is the carmic kamt russia will
translator: there was definitely bang, as if a huge bolt of lightning had struck somewhere near. reporter: the attack was immediately blamed on ukraine which reels daily from russian air assaults. translator: this morning the kyiv regime carried out a terrorist attack on the moscow region, and i will stress, aimed at civilian targets. in total eight airplane-type drones were used. all of them were brought down. reporter: kyiv was coy about its role in this drastic escalation. of course we enjoy watching and predicting an increase in attacks, but of course we have nothing to do directly with it. what is growing in russia is the payment that russia will pay more highly for everything it does in ukraine. reporter: ukraine is threatening an offensive to drive russian troops out. part of the tactics have been efforts to destabilize moscow s forces. a cross-border raid by anti-putin russian dissidents
occupied areas here and liberate for territory. nick paton walsh in zaporizhzhia, stay safe over there. thank you very much. the national security council coordinator for strategic communications retired rear admiral john kirby. thank you so much for joining us. some of the drones shot down over ukraine had ominous messages written on them, one for moscow, another for the kremlin. does ukraine need to brace for further russian retaliation? the ukrainians have been bracing for continued air assaults from russia, whether it s cruise missiles or drones, such as some of the drones that you just talked about. and look, just over the last 24 hours or so, the russians killed almost two dozen or actually maybe more than two dozen ukrainians, some of them were just shopping in the supermarket