other residents left to run for cover. translator: we were on the eighth floor with my 4-year-old son. we first ran to the corridor, and then down the fire staircase to get outside. reporter: as you can see, this building sustained some pretty substantial damage, and the drone attack went on for several hours last night, with the drones hovering over the city center and ukrainian air defenses frantically trying to take them down. ukraine s military says it shot down 29 of the 31 uavs the russians sent. kyiv s mayor vitali klitschko comforting his citizens, and telling me western air defense systems kept many people here safe. if we didn t have our defense, modern defense from our partners we have much worse situation in our hometown. more destroy the buildings and it will be more civilians killed. reporter: but russia has already threatened massive retaliation after the drone attack on moscow, leaving people in kyiv and elsewhere bracing for what could be worse to com
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i m bianna golodryga, welcome to cnn newsroom. i m john berman. we begin with breaking news. a russian fighter jet has forced down a u.s. drone over the black sea. the u.s. air force says the jet damaged the propeller of an mq-9 reaper drone. the aircrafts were operating over international waters when one of the jets intentionally flew in front of the drone and began dumping fuel. the white house says president biden has been briefed on the situation. cnn s oren liebermann is at the pentagon. we also have mark kimmitt. what are you learning? this played out early this morning over the black sea according to u.s. air force europe where a surveillance drone, an mq-9 reaper drone, was operating, again, over international waters when the air force says two russian fighter jets conducted an intercept in an up safe and unprofessional manner. but it goes beyond that. after the interpret, the russian fighter jets flew in front of the u.s. reaper drone, jumped dual in an attem