saying are 136 irani-made drone missiles, focused largely on odessa, the ukrainians are saying that 15 were fired, 10 were shot down, 5 got through, plunging that city of 1.5 million at least temporarily into blackout. now, this has been a pattern that we ve seen elsewhere in the country, with the deliberate targeting of by russian missiles, particularly cruise missiles, of the energy infrastructure here. now, there is also a pressure growing on international criminologists that this is a shine that the russians are in breach of international humanitarian law by targeting civilian structures, and by extension, if iranians are supplying weapons that are used to commit war crimes, that potentially there could be some kind of liability there. but this comes at a time when the ukrainians themselves are also appear to be getting more on to the front foot in terms of the use of their own missile capability, with strikes against don donetsk, russian-held territory in donetsk, against the cr
this video showing their forces destroying a russian helicopter on snake island. how effective can ukrainians be in the black sea considering what we ve seen of the russian maritime resources there, not so many of the ukrainian. well, they have been very successful down there. they knocked out 13 ships now. not just the moskva, but they have knocked out four transport ships. the amphibious capabilities of the russians have been severely degraded. the helicopter knocked out here on snake island is very very key that shows the ukrainians continue to have missile capability, drone capability, intelligence that tells them where they are, and how they can knock them out. and like i said, 13 have been knocked out. it s so important here, this fight, because of course odesa is such a key port. 400 million people throughout the world depend upon the wheat, the corn, the grain products
but these missiles are such that they really shouldn t be used for civilian targets like this because you don t need to evade the kinds of defense evasion tactics that they have, you don t need to use those for hyper sonic missiles. the hyper sonics can evade air defenses. they, of course, travel at more than five times the speed of sound. so they are very critical from an offensive missile capability. but they re also very much designed to go after like i mentioned, military targets. they are not designed to go after civilian infrastructure. and that s why there s a big mismatch here with what the russians are doing. it sounds like they don t have enough of the conventional weapons that they can use against odesa targets. we re also learning according to ukraine that russians are right now enhancing troops near the ukrainian russian border near the belgarad region.
the direct threat that north korea represents to the united states both hawaii and west coast but the east coast. their ability to pursue icbm technology and neutral weapons state reaching hypersonic technology means they might be able to overcome our missile defense system. there would be no nuclear weapon state of north korea or their missile capability if not for china. an issue the administration needs to address with china and north korea. this represents a direct threat to the united states. bill: if they achieve this and weaponize a hypersonic missile they could say to the u.s. government stick them up. now is the time to sit down and give us what we want? it holds us hostage if they look to putting taiwan at risk. when you start to place mainland united states at risk you lower our overall options and what north korea is looking for. they are a rogue state.
actually landed planes. all nights were taken down for at least 15 minutes. like i said it s an understandable precaution because the fact is that north korea continues to work on intercontinental ballistic missiles. they are improving their missile capability. we know they have nuclear weapons. they represent a threat. and once one of those missiles takes off it s not always clear just exactly what direction that missile is going to take. and it s for that reason that the kind of precautions that the faa took are understandable. i can t tell you how our military has to be fully prepared to respond to those kinds of missile launches because we, too, are not particularly aware of whether or not the direction of that