military infrastructure that they say is coming under attack. we ve also spoken to, again, our contact at the interior ministry, an interior ministry official saying that across the country as a result of these attacks there are hundreds of casualties. now, we don t know how many of those people are dead, how many are injured or whether that figure is accurate. but we do know that the interior ministry of ukraine is putting the number of casualties so far in this nationwide assault, missile assault at this stage for the most part, in the hundreds. which is, i mean, incredibly alarming obviously if it s indeed accurate. but i can tell you we ve heard about 18, 19 salvos of cruise missile attacks in just this city, in the capital kyiv, within the past hour or so since we ve been talking to you here on cnn. and those attacks have been focused on it seems the air
or so have been targeting those military jets, that military air base about 20 miles away to the north. the boryspil airport as well, which is the international airport and also has a military component. that s also been targeted. we don t know what he s up to, vladimir putin, what the russians are up to. but it all points to this idea that they are neutralizing ukraine s air defenses, trying to. ukraine s air defenses aren t very substantial, it has to be said. they ve got very old aircraft. they don t have very sophisticated anti-aircraft weaponry. but what they have got it seems is now being taken out by these cruise missile attacks. we ve counted i think what is it, 15, 16 volleys so far, each with multiple explosions in different parts of the city, to the east toward the international airport, to the south, and now of course i ve just been explaining to the
in tact, the largest fuel depot in tack of the ukrainian military. and they used a caliber cruise missile to hit it and then destroy it and then you have the fuel burning with that massive plume of smoke. that is a problem for the ukrainian forces hampering their logistics to make it difficult to get fuel to their forces. nevertheless, the ukrainians continue to say they believe right now they have the initiative despite this setback that took place. but you do also see that ukrainian forces still very much on alert. incidents like this is one of the reasons why we keep hearing the air raid sirens. these would be cruise missile attacks and air attacks that the russians are mounting and the ukrainians trying to fight that off with some of the longer range air defense systems that they still have in place, victor. fred in kyiv, thank you. fred. wolf, to you in poland. thank you very much. there is breaking news we re following. a senior u.s. defense official,
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