Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that Kiev will "not leave any Russian crime unanswered," taking responsibility for the "very eloquent smoke on the Crimean bridge.&.
ukrainian drones, perhaps traveling hundreds of miles, are in fact coming straight into military vehicles, important parts of russian military infrastructure. that s what they allege the fuel ship was. just last week, the kirch bridge again hit by a ukrainian drone. that is two close to that area as well. so aeries of incidents here that show, firstly, the increased ingenuity of ukrainians using water drones, which frankly appear to carry enorus ps against exceptionally expensive russian . the fact that that range means russia s parts of the black sea it used to consider impregnable are very much now targets for ukraine. and also, too, changing the narrative from about the grind here in the south, where ukraine s counteroffensive is taking less land than it would have liked by this particular point, and still at this point russia is on the defensive. jim? nick, ukrainian president zelenskyy is confirming that some russian missiles were used
car traffic can resume. and not in will november 1st when it will be fully operational. both the roadway and the train tracks came to a halt after the blast. the trains are now bag up and running again. boris? and alex, do we know if this attack on the kirch bridge had something to do with russia pulling out of its grain deal with ukraine? reporter: the russians are saying no, that they re not related. they certainly did happen on a this decision by russia certainly did happen on a very significant day. but this was a long time coming. there were rumblings from the russians that they weren t going to renew there deal. there deal s been in place for a year now, brokered by the united nations and turkey, of course, between russia and ukraine so that ukraine could export its grain to the world from here in odesa and other ports that are not under russian control. that was an extraordinarily important deal that was brokered. it allowed ukraine to export all the grain it has to suppor
the attack ems, they re just not sending them. can ukraine win without those? that will be very difficult, frankly. and i read undersecretary powell s statement that they think ukraine can accomplish what they need to a and i disagree. the idea is isolating it first with long range fires. attack ems, for example, if ukrainians had them right now, they could make sure that that bridge would never be repaired. the kirch bridge, already damaged and the other is a so-called land bridge. that s what the attack ems will
conflict and they are trying now to restore services to the residence there, there is no electricity, no heating, and obviously the investigation is ongoing to try to determine what happened to those people who had been buried in those mass graves. people who had been buried in those mass gram- people who had been buried in those mass craves. . ~ , ., ., ., mass graves. thank you, hugo bachega in k iv. let s get more on the explosions on the kirch bridge and the impact this will have on russia. dr samuel ramani teaches international relations at the university of oxford, and is currently writing a book: putin s war on ukraine russia s campaign for global counter revolution. thank you forjoining us here on bbc news. we werejust thank you forjoining us here on bbc news. we were just listening to a report from our correspondent steve rosenberg from russia and he said this attack on the bridge represented mainly two aspects, one is obviously strategic, but also symbolic. in your vie