echoing what the angle juste warned about last night. thisan entire exercise was a trial balloon, literally wou floated by china to see how long it woulldd takeeact for us to react forcefully. the spy balloon, the chinese would take our they ve taken pl our planes down. they weren t even flying inthatw their airspace. erenflying inthey forced them d. we let it go . we keep on appeasing the chinese and they ll keep pushing and all those pentagon groupies who are buying the line that the generals ared worried about collateral damage on the ground if they shot it down. okay, get your head screwed on straight. if we can hit home plate inh a e yankee stadium with the cruise missile launch, thousands ofcheo miles away, i think we p can pop a balloon without endangering human life. what and if not, maybe we shouldar reconsider what we re gettingiln for that eight hundred w $50 billion a year we spendou on defense at this point. and our secretary of state should have immediately
this video and it shows a cruise missile launch from a diesel submarine somewhere in the black sea. mason clark is joining me, he is russian team lead at the institute for the study of war. is this a new tactic by russia? thank you for having me. we don t know for sure whether or not the russian navy has used submarines to date in its invasion since february 24. we know that they have been using this type of cruise missile for quite some time. there is a good chance that they were already using submarines, but this is just the first time that they have acknowledged it, likely to score propaganda victory and talk up the various weapons that they are using. but they used submarines throughout the russian intervention in syria, particularly 2016 and 2017 to conduct very similar caliber cruise missile strikes. why do you think that they are just starting to do this now in the war? we re so many months into this. what do you think this indicates
the russian lines. the russians released these pictures of a cruise missile launch from the black sea fleet. a reminder that they have a lot of firepower left. in the almost deserted villages between kyiv and the russians, reminders are not necessary. they ve been battered. this is a village about an hour s drive west of kyiv. the ukrainians claim they have the russians on the run here. it didn t feel like that. these are the remains of russian cluster munitions dropped on friday evening. why are they hitting you here? because here many ukrainian warriors. and this is line of front. how far are the russians from here?
they re retaking towns. russians are lobbing in heavy munitions. the russians are claiming some success of their own. they say they ve hit a fuel depot with missiles. this was, they say, a cruise missile launch from one of their ships in the black sea. we can t confirm but it shows the range and the capability. phil black. thank you so much. keep us posted. christine? john, thank you so much. president biden leaves brussels for warsaw next hour. he ll be greeted there by the polish president.
have their defensive positions. jeremy bowen reports from one village which has been battered by artillery and cluster munitions just a kilometre from the russian lines. the russians released these pictures of a cruise missile launch from the black sea fleet. a reminder that they have a lot of firepower left. in the almost deserted villages between kyiv and the russians, reminders are not necessary. they ve been battered. this is a village about an hour s drive west of kyiv. the ukrainians claim they have the russians on the run here. it didn t feel like that. these are the remains of russian cluster munitions dropped on friday evening. why are they hitting you here? because here many ukrainian warriors.