there. we re assuming that they are the inspectors. oafter that the ship will head o lebanon. powerful explosions have been reported in the southern city of mykolaiv. the mayor says the strikes destroyed a market and caused a fire in the another part of the city. he says rescue operations are under way. russian strikes have also been hiring the eastern donetsk region with heavy shelling reported. cnn is covering the story from every angel. jason carroll is live for us in kyiv. looking at those latest military developments, take us through the current state of the war, jason. reporter: of course when you look at the area in the south, take for instance we continue to see heavy shelling in the area of mykolaiv, continue to see that in the area of kherson, this has ukrainian forces are really keeping up their pressure on russian forces down there in the south.
in germany in the 1970s and then was a journalist in bosnia and checnya. he gave me his thoughts on the latest military developments. i think the attack on the peacekeeping centre is very interesting because until recently, the organization for security and cooperation in europe, osce, which the russians used to have quite a lot of respect for, were in the east, monitoring the the war between the ukrainian army and breakaway separatists they pulled out a few days ago and relocated in lviv. so i suspect that s where they might be. as you said, eight missile strikes or eight strikes on that peacekeeping centre, which doesn t bode well for the future at all.
happening right now with these nato summits to see if something will happen that will really help tip the scales in they favor. they re watching two very key military developments that have happened that are really getting a lot of people throughout this country a bit of hope. the first happening off in the sea of azov. that s where the ukraine navy says that they have managed to destroy a russian ship that was docked at the port. while there s not any independent verification of this development, videos and pictures show a massive fire followed by multiple explosions. to the north in kyiv, we re looking ukraine forces are claiming to have pushed russian forces back in the eastern portion of the city. previously they had a tempted to encircle the capitol city. officials say russians are digging in, taking a defensive position now and not gaining any new ground. ukrainian forces are fighting them back.
also let me get your take again, putting your intelligence cap back on. this is the ukrainian defense intelligence chief speaking on sunday. there s reason to believe he, meaning putin, is considering a korean scenario for ukraine. that is russian forces will try to impose a dividing line between the unoccupied and occupied regions of the country. it s an attempt to create north and south korea in ukraine. do you see that? it s hard to follow 33 days in, the day-to-day military developments and see a coherent russian strategy. do you see as a potential fallback, creating the koreas of today or germany of the cold war era where putin tries to expand what russia already holds in the donbas and go down along the coast and take the port cities? well, i think that taking that land bridge to crimea and securing that access to crimea over land as well as water supplies, which is what you need to do to take that territory there, makes complete sense. it s something that russia has wanted t
extent. they have pushed them back no question. by several hundred yards, more than that in some areas, in kyiv. but whether they just pushed them back to a point where you rightly say, just will stand regroup for a while, dig into defensive positions, get resupplies and relaunch another assault that is open to question. i have to say, most of the analysts think it is the former, that russians to some extent in capital of kyiv in some form of retreat. we ll see how that plays out. joining us now live with the latest military developments, former u.s. army special op intelligence officer brett. he is working with harper rescue that help safe millions and provide aid, he is in krakow poland, great