80,000 more wounded. zelenskyy spoke after meeting spanish prime minister pedro sanchez on saturday. now, cnn can t verify those claims about the numbers injured. for more, cnn correspondent scott mclean joins us from london. first, scott, let s start with those attacks on kyiv. what more are we learning? as you mentioned, kim, the ukrainians said they had a perfect score in shooting down eight irani-made drones and three caliber cruise missiles. these are long-range missiles, either fired from occupied parts of southeastern ukraine or from the black sea, either. and interestingly enough, the ukrainian air force says this is the first time in 12 days that drones have been used to fire at the capital. what is also unusual is the fact that all of them were shot down, which is why the ukrainians have been pushing for more air defense, for their skies, because president zelenskyy said last month that they simply do not have, despite what they ve been given from the west already, they do
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bulk of the drone attacks were focused on kyiv and the surrounding region, saying that they down to dozen ukrainian made drones. and an separator where ukrainian forces have been lodging a counteroffensive, seven missile strikes were down according to local authorities. this comes as ukrainian authorities are increasingly admitting that this counteroffensive will be hard won. president zelensky said that his forces were having to be both offensive and defensive in many parts of the country but he said he was confident that his forces could prevail stop his deputy defence minister said that there was evidence that russian forces were trying to gain territory in the east of the country. she also said that ukrainian forces were struggling to regain territory in the region because a lot of it is now, has been were struggling to regain territory in the region because a lot of filled with minefields by russian forces. the country s
of the case. and frankly it wouldn t be appropriate to do so. obviously he is going to have to fend this off, those allegations such as we heard earlier in the programme, that this has been politicised, he will try to keep this a personal matter. sarah, great to talk to you. thank you. ukraine says russia launched another wave of air attacks, targeting kyiv and other cities. ukraine s military says 28 out of 35 iranian attack drones were shot down. officials in the western city of lviv say critical infrastructure has been hit. they come as ukraine continues its counteroffensive. our correspondent mayeni jones has the latest from kyiv. ukrainians woke up on tuesday morning after a long night air raid sirens that saw miss orlando and right across the country. in the western region of live authorities say critical infrastructure was hit, starting a fire which emergency services had to tackle. they also say that the
this morning, russia says that ukrainian officials laulaunch ed an attack on kyiv. they also hit a facility in the western part of the country while russian shelling also damaged buildings in zaporizhzhia. fred pleitgen is in kyiv with the latest. fred, what are you learning about the latest attack on kyiv from russia. what are you picki up? hi, kate. certainly another sleepless night for people in kyiv as alarms and air raids were going off for several hours in the night, and indeed, a large scale drone attack by the drones as the ukrainians calling them, the iranian-produced drones that attack while they sleep. that is what happened last night. they were the waves of the attacks coming from several directions, and the numbers are staggering. the ukrainians say they detected