missiles in the attack that are ed aanti-aircraft weapons. what do you glean from that use of this weapon for what we re seeing overnight? well, they have been using s-300s and s-400s that are designed for ground to air, to knock town aircraft and missiles, in a ground-to-ground fight for some time now. i think it s an indicator again that russia is pulling out all stops. they are using all types of missile systems. what i found interesting in alex s reporting is with the data that says over 50 were fired in several provinces but only a few people were wounded. that tells me that these are being used indiscriminately. it brings back memories of iraq where insurgents would use missiles and just fire them towards a location, not hoping to hit anything but just
ukrainian authorities later said they believe the missiles were s-300s, normally used to shoot down planes, devastating when launched at urban centers. as medics tended to the wounded, producer tim lister checks in with our headquarters. extremely large detonations really, really close. we re going to stay in shelter. reporter: as we take cover, residents are clearly traumatized by the violence. it is terrifying, natalia tells me. but what can we do? the strikes came as search and rescue efforts were ongoing in exactly the same neighborhood after a russian missile leveled an apartment block on wednesday night, killing at least three and wounding eight. the russians seem to be bringing the cities of this region into their war regardless of the consequences. and russian president vladimir putin is saying there is worse to come. putin spoke thursday at events commemorating the battle of
like a wartime leader. very different pictures. yeah. very different pictures. not as robust image of president putin president putin. let me ask you about the patriot missile system here. every installment of of military support from the west, from the u.s., comes with this threat from russia. sometimes it s nuclear. sometimes not. i wonder how they see the addition of this patriot missile system? of course, ukraines think this is a step forward. how escalatory do the russians believe it is? reporter: well, i mean, let s look at what president putin said today. he said, yeah, it s an old system, and we can knock it down. so he s really, you know, dismissing it. he said that it s not as good as our s-300s. so i think, that s his response, kind of dismissing it. what militarily they think, i m sure is that it is a potent system.
Arms and defense experts say preventing potential Russian nuclear attack depends on multiple variables, including type of bomb and where it would be dropped.