one of them out west here. this is lusk. an airfield struck by the russians four ukrainian servicemen killed, six wounded there. also another air field, residents ordered into air shelters as those bombs hit, the air raid striking these airfields likely a message about the mig 29s not using those airfields for that don t know specifically. here dnipro, fourth largest city in ukraine. for the first time a russian airstrikes targeted this major industrial hub in the east. state of emergency in effect there. as they re continuing to get bombarded. a lot of activity in the south. most of it around kyiv. speaking of south. let s take russians are on the move. we talked about that movement. hitting both ways to mariupol.
does not mean they re being stationary. they are thinking things through. they re trying to adapt, overcome and figure out how to take a limited logistics capability to some kind of victory that s going to be acceptable to vladimir putin. we re getting these new images tonight of at least three russian helicopters destroyed at the kherson airport. it s the most destructive known military strike the ukrainian military conducted against russian helicopters during the war. what does this tell us about the defensive power ukraine has? pretty considerable. this is imagery of the air field, the kherson air field. it interesting because you already see some flaming helicopters that are stationary on the ground right here and the smoke plume is considerable. this shows that they definitely hit their targets. one other thing i noticed is this. this runway has been creatored. that means the runway is
recommendation to the president on what to do here. one misread by putin on an airplane taking off from poland and accidentally getting into a dogfight with a russian jet and getting shot down has poland just launched an attack from an air field in a nato nation. does that trigger article 5. so the policy folks in dod and department of state are looking at those thresholds of what do we consider to be an attack against a nato nation where an attack against one is an attack against all. what is that threshold? you heard about turkey saying one of their ships was fired upon. that didn t seem to met the threshold. turkey is a nato nation. what is that level of acceptance and what is that level of that was a mistake. that wasn t necessarily an
a theater in mariupol was destroyed. the foreign minister said hundreds of civilians were sheltering inside. no word on the number of casualties. with each passing hour, the death toll continues to rise and some places families have been told to leave their dead outside in the street because it s too dangerous to hold funerals. the bodies are being buried in mass graves including children. the youngest still had an unbilical stump attached. terrell star, non-resident senior fellow at the atlantic counsel center and host of the black diplomat podcast. cal, i want to start we yo. we come to think of lviv as a safe place but seems no place is safe. reporter: well, and we had air strikes sort of near here about an hour away four days ago. this was that air field. i think it changed the tone here. you have hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing from the
four nato countries have in their inventories. ukraine has shot down 15 to 20 russian fixed air aircraft and 20 to 25 russian helicopters, according to u.s. assessments and verified open source imagery. today russia struck a ukrainian air field, 87 miles directly south of lviv, the first time they have struck in the west. russia used long range missiles, we are told, to strike the air field, most likely it was targeted to send a signal to poland and to nato not to send the mig-29s, that would be an air field the migs would fly from near poland. the u.s. is working to get more ground missiles and air defense into ukraine. russia is flying an average of 200 flights per day, but most are not in ukrainian air space where they could be shot down.