night vision equipment. even with that help, ukraine s president said he expects tough fighting in the days ahead. here he is. translator: in the east of our country, the situation remains difficult. the russian militaries are being accumulated in donbas, in the kharkiv direction. they re preparing for new powerful blows. we are preparing for even more active defense. with moscow s assault faltering on many question there are growing questions about an air strike on a russian fuel depot. did russia attack russia on its own soil. president zelenskyy said this on fox news. i did not discuss any of my orders as commander in chief, the leader of this state. you need to understand that on that territory, that you mentioned, yes and no.
armed forces and of course as foreign minister now, diplomacy. this is a war. they attacked us to destroy us. they reject our right to exist as a nation. so it means that we will be fighting back by all means available to us within existing law, international laws of warfare of course because we are a civilized nation unlike them. reporter: and john, it s likely due to operational security they won t confirm or deny their part in that attack on the fuel depot just across the border. yeah, that really did seem intentionally cryptic. you know, kaitlan, it s obviously still unclear what happened, but how concerned is the white house on the impact it could have on diplomatic efforts. reporter: well you saw this claim from the russians that this attack which they re alleging of course done by the ukrainians which as you heard from christiane s interview
nations. a war no one asked for, this was a country that was invaded so the horror you re seeing on the streets there, inflicted on them. general pitard, we showed the video the russians say is this strike inside russian boundaries, they say it was a ukrainian strike on a fuel depot. do you think it was likely the ukrainians that did this? i actually think it was likely the ukrainians that did it, with what looks like two hine aircraft, helicopters, mi-24 attack helicopters, to get there, to evade russian radar and then they attacked. attacked a legitimate target, it s a fuel depot, but even more than that, it s really the first attack on russian soil from another nation since world war ii, you know, outside of terrorist attacks, the first
video one of them was killed while riding a bike. brutal images. we re going to assess bucha in greater detail a little later in the show. also, tonight, it is possible we have reached a pivotal moment in a war that until now, and like the images you saw, has been fought exclusively on ukrainian soil, what is notable, even unusual, is the reports of an attack miles within the russian borders are coming from the russians themselves. i m john berman in for anderson. it is a reversal of roles to be sure, the russians admitting to a surprising and seemingly successful attack against a russian fuel depot, meanwhile the ukrainians typical vocal about their successes are a little quiet, not to mention a bit cryptic about what happened. beyond this case, there are new examples of apparently successful operations by ukrainian forces. new satellite photos from maxar technologies tonight confirm the pentagon estimation that the
we want to show you that new video from the town of bucha outside the capitol. it is disturbing, and it does show human bodies. we don t know if these bodies are civilians or military, ukrainian or russian. we do know that one of the bodies appears to be on a bicycle. bucha was recently liberated by ukrainian forces, an example of ukraine s apparently successful counterattack. also another attack we want to discuss, we mentioned earlier as well, what the russians are calling an attack on their soil by the ukrainians, if it was the ukrainians who attacked this fuel depot it would mark a dramatic turning point in a war that until now has been fought exclusively on ukrainian territory. however, cnn cannot confirm russia s allegations and ukraine is being cryptic saying it will neither confirm or deny these accusations, there is of course