welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. russia has made a rare acknowledgement that 63 of its soldiers were killed in a new year s eve attack by ukrainian forces. the strikes were carried out with himars rockets supplied by the us and destroyed a former school in the donetsk region, where the soldiers are said to have been temporarily deployed. several russian politicians have said commanders must be held to account for allowing such a large number of troops to be concentrated in an unprotected area. in ukraine, the country s armed forces say the strike killed hundreds of russian soldiers, as our correspondent in kyiv, hugo bachega reports. in a town in eastern ukraine, rubble and many questions. this used to be a school, apparently turned into a base for russian soldiers. at around midnight on new year s eve, ukraine struck. how many were killed remains unclear. in moscow, the army claimed the attack was carried out with rockets supplied by the ameri
we start with some breaking news. damar hamlin, an american football player for the buffalo bills is in a critical condition in hospital after collapsing on the field. the incident happened in the game between his team and the cincinnati bengals. our reporter azadeh moshiri is here. what do we know so far? damar hamlin is only 2a and starting for the bangles this season as a replacement for another player suffered a neck injury and damar hamlin has stepped in. he collapsed to the ground and felt the ground after he tackled another player for the bangles and immediately afterwards received a attention, the nfl stuyven says he received it from its own medical team and local paramedics. they administered cpr and while later he was taken to a local hospital where he is now in critical condition. it was extremely difficult to watch but notjust the moment he collapsed, the horror on his teammates and the faces of the bengals when they realised what happened, many in tears, many gro
referred to. why do you think that was allowed to happen? this is the pace of war you are bringing replacement troops as quickly as you can, you want them to be near their ammunition, encased they are going to need it if these were artillery units for example, in this case these replacements units were far too close, probably being garrisoned for onward movement, and there was an opportunity there, the ukrainians took it. do you exect ukrainians took it. do you expect ukrainians - ukrainians took it. do you expect ukrainians to - ukrainians took it. do you expect ukrainians to use | ukrainians took it. do you - expect ukrainians to use himars missiles more and more? i really do, especially when we are in wintertime, it self promotion here i wrote about this for the wall street journal a month ago, advocating the use of the himars against the use of the himars against the ammunition dumps and personal holding areas and supply depots, so start reducing the strength of the russian troops
he served in a variety of senior roles in the us army and was a deputy assistant secretary of defense in the george w bush administration. we asked if he was surprised at the damage done. no, not really, they are very lethal and very accurate. if four were fired and hit an ammunition dump, that would explain the large amount of explosions and large amount of casualties. the russian military has come under a lot of criticism at home for allowing these men to be located so close to the ammunition dump you referred to. why do you think that was allowed to happen? this is the pace of war, you are bringing in replacement troops as quickly as you can, you want them to be near their ammunition, in case that they are going to need it, if these were artillery units, for example, in this case these replacements units were far too close, probably being garrisoned for onward movement, and there was an opportunity there,
you have something like 40,000 ukrainian troops according to president zelenskyy who are already dug in. they re in trenches, garrisoned. they are battle hardened. that is going to be a hard mass for the russians to surround and essentially try to pound. so what the ukrainians have to do right now so they can get access to all of this weaponry that 30 countries are rushing in, they have to keep the supply lines open and when oeurope goe into that area that is being contested, they can get a lot of that equipment to their forces and then it becomes force on force to pound each other and see which one has enough supplies and the will to survive. kimberly, president zelenskyy saying now this war for donbas, the battle for donbas, this