army and europe. general, just what kylie was saying there at the end that the ukrainian defense department says they don t have a defense against these. do you agree with that assessment based on what you understand about the capabilities that the ukrainians have? yeah, not completely, abby. what we re talking about, two different things, first the loitering drones, the 136s that the russians are calling the garan 2. each drone is about $20,000 to manufacture and to shoot them down you either have to have some type of electronic warfare gear where you can shoot them out of the sky, they are relatively easy to detect because when they fly over they make a sound like a lawn mower, so you can see them, you can engage them with small arms fire, you can also engage them with air defense equipment if they are in the location and in the range to engage, but then
territory. and today in southern ukraine, russia reportedly launched missile and drone attacks on the city of zaporizhzhia. ukraine says at least 11 civilians have died just in the last day. moving even further south to the kherson region, russian officials say ukrainian forces have gone a counteroffensive to recapture territory. all right. let s bring in retired light general mark hurtling, a cnn analyst and former commanding general of u.s. army europe and seventh army nice to see you. russia says ukrainian forces have launched a counter done offenses in the south kherson region. testimony us why recapture tell us why recapturing that emergency is so important, a region that russia annexed last month. if you look at the map that you have up now, pamela, you ll see that there s a river right next to that town of kherson. russian forces have gone over that river for the last couple of weeks.
defense secretary lloyd austin is vowing to support ukraine for the months and even years to come following a meeting with the ukraine defense contract group in brussels this morning. this after at least seven people were killed and several others injured as russia launched a third day of heavy strikes across ukraine overnight. joining me now is cnn military analyst lieutenant general mark hertling, he previously served as general of the u.s. army europe and seventh army in europe. always great to see you, especially on this topic. let s talk about what we ve seen launched by russia over the past few days, it s the largest barrage we ve seen and attack into the heartland of ukraine since the start of this war. i m just curious how long in your opinion this barrage this scale at least can continue. we had admiral kirby on our air say yesterday that the u.s. believes that russia s stockpile at least of precision guided missiles is running short. what do you make of that? i agree wi