four people are confirmed dead, among them a pregnant woman. ukraine says it managed to shoot down 36 of the 42 iranian-made drones used in that blitz, including this one, which was captured on a police officer s body cam. the u.s. says russia s use of drones will factor in future decisions on how to best support ukraine defend itself. fred pleitgen is in ukraine. you are in one of the regions that was targeted by these strikes. what are you seeing? reporter: you re right, victor. we saw a power plant that was hit by the russians. this is something that happened earlier today and essentially the ukrainian authorities was saying that there was severe damage. it was hit by one of those kamikaze drones. they had to have rescue crews on hand. there was a large fire. they re urging the citizens in a town where i am right now, they re urging them to use less electricity to ration electricity simply because they have to get things back up and running. you can see behind me, it s
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they re intended to be fired in groups and swarms. their launching platform has five rockets on them. they re rocket-assisted. they fly to their target. they have 1500 miles of range. they can launch these things from moscow all the way into anywhere in ukraine. they carry an 88-pound warhead which is enough to maybe not take out a bridge, but cause significant damage. i mean, you don t want one flying in your apartment window in the morning, that s for sure. but they re effective. we saw that the ukrainians were able to knock out 85%, but, again, they re being deployed in swarms so a few are going to get through. those that get through are intended to terrorize the ukrainian people, they re trying to take out infrastructure, they re trying to knock out energy assets prior to the winter to make life more miserable for the ukrainians. spoiler alert to mr. putin, it s not going to work. so, general, when u.s.
so we have had evidence in the past 24 hours. picking up their aircraft that they don t want to lose and moving them to russian bases so we would have to make the decision to strike the aircraft and get rid of them about killing russians on russian bases if we did it. there is conversation under way on that deconfliction line. the more time it goes on the more time they have to enter mingle their own forces with russian forces. and that s the big danger here. the moment that they have done that. remember, just yesterday, you were hearing the russians saying they would go after the missiles. and perhaps the launching platform. they would be u.s. naval ships. right. but i mean, now it has deescalated, it sounds like. that hotline behind the scenes is being used. who knows if maybe those tweets
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