fired at the city on wednesday. one person was killed and dozens injured in those attacks, while nine others were killed in strikes. on the kiev region. ukraine s president is promising a response to what he calls russian savagery. close bastian joining me now to talk about this. this was claire callous attack on civilian life. what more have we been learning about the after math of these tax, not just in separation, of course, but in key for the kiev region as well. wednesday was pretty deadly day for civilians overall that attack in both in both cases in the kiev region and is a barrage of the rescue efforts have now finished. we re hearing in zaporizhia, according to the emergency services. they are quoting the national police are saying that they believe this was from the smartwatch rocket launcher system. that s a multiple launch rocket system that russia uses that was responsible for those six missiles that were levied at the city of separate asia. the death toll there stands at
went too far. they were not advised to do that they were ultimately fired. and we can expect in just under an hour. the ceo to probably be asked about that, but he is going to say in prepared testimony that tiktok is unequivocally not an agent of china. there s going to be some fiery exchanges playing out over the next couple hours. no doubt. i mean, that is going to be an area. i am sure that members of congress want to ask about it happened once at least once. why won t it happen again? exactly. vanessa. appreciate it. thank thank you. also quick programming note for you. be sure to tune in to cnn primetime tonight when abby phillip tapes takes a look at tiktok future amid these calls to ban the app in the u. s. abbey host is time up for tiktok tonight, right here on cnn at nine pm still to come a deadly night in the kiev region as russian drone strikes target ukraine s capital. we re live. fast signs create custom
may lead to depression, such that they can mount a counter offensive. i have to say it s impossible to very really verify that accurately bad there is a sense in the last few days. if ukrainians are making some ground, though they do only control a limited part of that heavily destroyed city that s been under contestation for many, many, many months, and you ve had a very tragic raise in the death toll from those drone strikes in kiev. those shahid iranian drone striking civilian areas. and also in operation with a missile strike a dramatic and tragic strike on an apartment building a nine story building partially destroyed maracas. the it seems at this point, only one dead, many injured, though john and it comes as president zelensky has been on this tour over the last few days to frontline regions. he was in the east and then in the northeast, and now his close to where i am to the front
keep an eye on that mean time to get you caught up on some of what we re following around the globe this morning, russia launching another round of deadly strikes across ukraine, killing at least nine people in the kiev region, another ends operation. this is, according to officials there. ukrainian general says russian forces have been battered so badly fighting for bach mood that ukrainian troops in kiev will be able to go on a counter offensive in that eastern city. what he says very soon. cnn correspondent david mckenzie joins us now live from odessa. david. what s the latest? john and erica. that s an interesting statement from that very senior official or general from the ukrainian military, saying that in mahmoud in the eastern part of this conflict after many, many months of fierce fighting. his estimation is that ukrainians are depleting the russian forces , mostly those vagner mercenary groups very severely and that it
overnight we did get another wave of russian drone attacks the ukrainian air force saying 21 drones are fired at ukraine, 16 they say was shut down. but according to the kiev region, police chief three people were killed in a drone hit a dormitory. so this is something that we re continuing to see president zelensky just out with a tweet on that saying over 20 iranian murderous drones, he says, plus missiles, numerous shelling occasions. and that s just in one last night of russian terror against ukraine every every time, he says someone tries to hear the word peace in moscow. another order is given there for such criminal strikes. obviously the talk of peace, the chinese peace plan, all that rings pretty hollow in ukraine. it is interesting as well. how restrained ukraine have been, though in their approach to china, while she jinping has been meeting with vladimir putin, like an acknowledgement, i suppose that, however, this conflict is resolved, china probably will play a role. seba