which means no one compromise which means no one got everything they want. i strongly urge both chambers to pass that agreement. and one night after russia s largest drone attack on kyiv, ukrainian air defences shoot down dozens more russian targets over the capital. the 69 year old will now serve another five years, potentially stretching his time in power to
this is a shift nein the russian air attacks to focus on kyiv. the volume nationwide is a little bit lower than we have seen when twhhey went after the energy sector. that is nationwide. the overwhelming concentration of attacks has been against the capitol lately. overnight last night with a large number of the primitive drones from iran. but also, cruise missiles which are potentially much more dangerous delivering a much heavier warhead n both cases, the vast majority of them being taken down by kyiv s air defenses. and, of course, there is an anticipation that ukraine may launch a counter offensive agains t russia.
and we saw, you know, during last 100 years, russian empire collapsed already twice. first, it was russian empire, then it was soviet union. it s the same empire. so we believe that it s time for russian empire to collapse for the third time, and i hope the last one. well, russia s ambassador to the uk has been speaking to the bbc, saying, we have enormous resources. we haven t started to attack very seriously. what do you make of those comments? i mean, that is russian propaganda. they are using all their possibilities and all theirforce. definitely they look ridiculous and the whole world sees the weakness of russia, because they claim to be the second strongest army in the world. they were telling that in three days they would take kyiv, and then they will march to lyman. but in reality, we see quite opposite analogy to it took almost one year for them to capture not even
sign of what s to come from russia. can ukraine s air defense system, many newly provided by the west, can they sustain continued attacks at this rate? i think bianna, that s exactly what the russians are trying to find out in the first instance. they re trying to find out whether ukraine s air defenses can be overwhelmed and how they can be overwhelmed. that s why they fire the low-tech iranian drones alongside these very much more powerful cruise missiles. 40 cruise missiles fired last night, 11 missiles fired during the day, clearly targeting civilians. all upping the ante and focused on kyiv with the intent of trying to break the command and control structures behind the ukrainian defense, bianna. meantime, ukraine s top military commander announced over the weekend that it is, quote, time to get back what is