said they had launched one of the biggest attacks against kyiv. cnn s salma abdelaziz is here for more on this. there s a huge focus on drone strikes in the capital. obviously, russia trying to make gains in the east. what s the strategy here with fire power over kyiv? so, overnight, this massive barrage yet again, 67 air targets according to officials. many of those drones and missiles, as you mentioned. the targets, military say was military infrastructure and civilian infrastructure. this comes a day after on sunday, ukraine says it witnessed the largest assault by drones since the conflict began. nearly 60 drones, most of those, the overwhelming number of those, shattered iranian-made drones being fired across ukraine. most of those drones, all but one of those drones, according to ukrainian officials was taken out. what do we take from this, yes, as you mentioned, seems like there s an uptick here on
an interesting development, i would say, an interesting development, i would say. very an interesting development, i would say, very interesting if you put the military say, very interesting if you put the military in charge of stopping people the military in charge of stopping people coming across, we are talking about people coming across, we are talking about a people coming across, we are talking about a senior member of the navy being about a senior member of the navy being in about a senior member of the navy being in charge of this, a rear admirat being in charge of this, a rear admiral would have the power to direct admiral would have the power to direct his admiral would have the power to direct his border force and coast guard direct his border force and coast guard to direct his border force and coast guard to carry out surveillance and interception. but it is also the ministers interception. but it is also the ministers have given up attempts to pus
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casualty number. this feeds into a wider picture here of ukrainian success here. strategically in the town of mykolaiv. the russian military was trying to push into the key roads that head into the city. burned ded out armor at roundab here. ukrainian army destroyed with the exchange with the russians. they were pushed back very far. we had seen for ourselves on the roads the first city that russian claimed to have held and now there is civil disobedience there. the ukrainian military pushing toward that again. pushing the russians away from the port city on the black sea coast. that russia has to have a military say over before it moves over to the goal of odesa, of course, on the black sea
i wish that we can do that, that it happens here. those marching here today will be hoping for positive news during the final week of talks, that it s not too late to deliver the substantial change they want. lorna gordon, bbc news, glasgow. reports from iraq say the prime minister mustafa al kadhimi is unhurt following what the military say was an assassination attempt. it s reported that rockets from a drone hit his home in the high security green zone in the capital baghdad in the early hours of sunday. since the attack, al kadhimi has tweeted to say he is fine and called for calm and restraint. you are watching bbc news. the headlines: hospitals overwhelmed, after 100 people are killed in a fuel tanker explosion in sierra leone many more are injured. an investigation is underway into reports that someone at a houston music festival in the us was injecting people with drugs before the crowd stampeded.