ukraine actually be facing on the ground? it definitely will be a different scenario, compared to the early days of the this war. absolutely. the ukrainian offensive won t live look like previous ones. not only the ukrainians are different, but the russians are. as you said, they have learned, although they haven t learned as fast as ukrainians. they have learned. those who have survived have been able to share lessons. and the russian forces have occupied deep, kilometers-deep defensive zones, backed up with artillery, backed up with reserve mobile forces. so this will be a very profound challenge for the ukrainians, but they ve been training, they ve been preparing, they ve been rehearsing and equipping for some time. and they re up to the job. our thanks to mcryan there. now, ukraine says the casualty toll is growing from a russian strike near the city of dnipro. officials now say the body of a 2-year-old girl has been recovered from a building damaged in saturday s attack.
ukraine says the casualty toll is growing from a russian air strike near the city of dnipro. officials say the body of a 2-year-old girl has been recovered from a building damaged in saturday s attack. the number of wounded has now grown to at least 22 people, including 5 children. the strike damaged multiple homes and gas pipelines. ukraine says its air defense made a clean sweep in the skies overnight. reports indicate that ukraine shot down all the missiles headed towards the capital where air sirens still went off. and president volodymyr zelenskyy is dropping more hints about the looming counteroffensive. he told the wall street journal that ukraine is ready and strongly believes that ukraine will be successful. for more on all of this, we re joined by scott mclean who is in london following developments for us. it s obvious what s going on here.
casualty toll is of this on going crackdown. but according to estimates from various groups, including human rights organizations and state media, they say that dozens have so far lost their lives in the country. amnesty international saying that authorities have opened fire, live rounds deliberately and directly at protesters. state media, also the government saying that a number of the security apparatus have also been killed in recent days. and according to state media, more than 1,000 people have been detained so far. it is very difficult for us to know what is going on on the ground in iran, in realtime, because the government is continuing to restrict the internet and to block social media platforms. so, it s very hard to assess how big, how widespread the protests still are, but on sunday,
facilities. one soldier cocked his rifle as she shouted at us to move back. that s a sign of the nervousness here. a major concern is a lot of times you can t see the missile strikes incoming. so we took shelter. [ air raid siren ]. those sirens there a relief, the all-clear signals. this is what s left behind. the strikes this morning damaging cars, taking down trees. we saw sections of a railroad track thrown dozens of yards by the force of the explosion. the latest casualty toll, seven dead, 11 wounded. let s begin with cnn international correspondent matt rivers. he s also here with me in lviv. i went to one of the locations of the strike. you went to another one that hit here. tell us what you saw. reporter: basically, you and i left the hotel and followed different smoke trails.