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intercept an asteroid. was it a success and remembering a beloved tv sleuth, the legendary angela lansbury announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening it is really anybody s guess what the russian strategy is tonight after vladimir putin s military trained its missiles and lethal drones once more today on ukrainian cities, a follow-on to yesterday s long-range attacks that killed at least 20 people and knocked out power in several regions. russia says the strikes have been aimed at critical infrastructure but new images of the attack appear to show missiles impacting in civilian areas russia s long arm hitting at least 12 regions across the country. ukrainian officials say russia has fired over 100 cruise missiles and dozens of armed drones many, it claims, were shot down by ukrainian forces today president zelenskyy anxious for advanced air defense systems from the u.s. and western allies to blunt the russian aerial assault our richard engel is
shortage of certain parts, they are trying to get that three grey areas, through great markets, but it is getting increasingly hard for russia to produce missiles in the numbers which are needed for the front line and also to deliver those strikes because again of corruption and chains, russia is ryan relying on that, they claim they target critical infrastructure only but they have already targeted a park in kyiv and other areas where there are zero military targets are located. as we have been talking to you, we have been seeing the pictures of the park, we have been showing those and many targets which it is difficult to imagine what they might have to do with military success or any strategic aims on the part of the russian military. ijust want strategic aims on the part of the russian military. i just want to show you also a glass bridge which was a tourist attraction and that is
using his dominance in the air. that is why it is so important for us to receive air defensive systems. we desperately ask for this from our western allies just to stop putin here ukraine. bill: sir, where are you in relation to the city? i am just outside of kyiv. in this area, we know that putin wants to encircle kyiv, but he could not do this. no, his forces are partly encircled kyiv. may be than 50%. i am sure that they will not succeed to do this because they are trying to do this for the last two weeks and they couldn t. i hope and believe that they will not do this. bill: i want you to listen to your mayor here for a moment. his brother is a well-known