in a new video tonight, president zelenskyy warned those drafted in russia against joining the war. speaking and russian, he said, quote, worn every such conscript, their parents, we do not need knew that people here. protect your children so that they would not become the villains. do not let them join the army. to whatever you can to keep them alive at home. joining us now, nbc news correspondent, ali arouzi in lviv. ali, what s the latest on the ground tonight? good evening, jonathan. starting with that helicopter attack, the russians are saying that the two ukrainian helicopters attacked and oil that put just across the border. the greens haven t confirmed or denied it. but if they did, it s fairly significant. it will be the first time in this war that the ukrainians
respected. at that point russia had already occupied it and donbas and crimea do they consider those to be russian territories when you talk about this february lines or ukraine s? nodded all. we never observed any russian occupation or ownership over their illegal occupation and presence and crimea. we are talking about all of ukraine for they have a right to their own sovereignty into territorial integrity. we supports president zelenskyy and his pursuit of that end. speaking of territorial integrity, i think there s been a lot of focus and rightly so on this helicopter attack that took out a fuel depot inside of russia. so bret baier interviewed president zelenskyy and asked him specifically about the origins of this attack and here s what he said.
did you order the attack into russian soil? the ukrainian helicopter attack on a russian military depot across from kharkiv. i am sorry i do not discuss any of my orders as commander-in-chief and leader of the state. there are things which i only share with the military our forces of ukraine and when they talk with me but you need to understand that on that territory that you mentioned you have to know they were placing their shooting systems and firing those missiles themselves. thirty-six oh admiral kirby at the last part of that sounds like ukraine ordered that attack. did they? i will not get ahead of president zelenskyy he is the commander-in-chief of his forces. i will let him speak to the operations they conduct. that is the appropriate thing pretty want to preserve as much of their operational security as
ukrainian troops and coast which i was 101st airborne commander there and they commanded a deep attack into russia using time hospital attack helicopters and that shows some real sophistication there. so if putin is quote unquote retreating, he s doing so because ukrainians are pressuring them hard and fighting from interior lines of communication. lawrence: general, my colleague bret baier did a exclusive interview with the ukrainian president zelenskyy with comments that i wanted to get your reaction to. let s attack look. did you order the attack into russian soil the ukrainian helicopter attack on a russian military depot across from kharkiv acrossed border in russia? i m sorry i do not discuss any of my orders as commander in chief.
european forces and i command ukrainian troops and coast which i was 101st airborne commander there and they commanded a deep attack into russia using time hospital attack helicopters and that shows some real sophistication there. so if putin is quote unquote retreating, he s doing so because ukrainians are pressuring them hard and fighting from interior lines of communication. lawrence: general, my colleague bret baier did a exclusive interview with the ukrainian president zelenskyy with comments that i wanted to get your reaction to. let s attack look. did you order the attack into russian soil the ukrainian helicopter attack on a russian military depot across from kharkiv acrossed border in russia? i m sorry i do not discuss any of my