all right. welcome back to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. the breaking news continues to be these russian claims, claims from russian state media, they say two ukrainian drones were flown toward the kremlin last night. again, russia claims it was a ukrainian plot to try to assassinate putin. there is no verification, no information at all coming from ukraine right now on this and they deny targeting russia. all right. back with us nick paton walsh who is in dnipro, ukraine, as well as matthew chance who just returned from moscow. we will get to matthew in just a second, but, nick, you have new information for us this morning, a statement that has come into you. reporter: yeah, ukrainian
have this statement a very clear statement from an adviser to zelenskyy as well as the zelenskyy spokesperson speaking in no uncertain terms saying that this was not them, they have nothing to do about it. the fact that they are speaking about this at all is significant because there is a lot of we re not going to confirm or deny anything when it comes to a strategy or what we re doing in this war. i thought that was kind of noteworthy. reporter: certainly. look, i mean, it s absolutely clear they want publicly to be seen to have nothing to do with it. it s also important to remind viewers at home here we have at this stage no evidence, no verified evidence, that this drone attack indeed did occur. you may see a video shortly which purports to provide some backup for that claim, but at this point we have a statement from the kremlin in which they massively escalate the conflict, it s important to point out both sides are throwing everything they possibly can at this. so with certai
part. something we ve heard from russians in the past. if you recall, when the u.s. end rocket launching systems to ukraine russians threatened to hit decision-making centers in kyiv and other cities as well. so far that really hasn t happened to the extent russia said that it would. nevertheless, the main battle tanks are a huge topic here in kyiv. hearing from ukrainian official. they re running out of spare parts for the soviet-made battle tanks they have. also running out of ammo. very difficult to source that internationally also. ukrainians say they need about 300 to 400 modern western battle tanks to really be able to turn the tide. as you correctly said, right now it s still difficult internationally. especially for the german-made ones, the german 2s. pols saying they want them send, own them, but needmission from germans. the germans saying they will if
At least seven people were wounded after the village of Shevchenkove in Ukraine’s Kharkiv Oblast was hit by a Russian missile on Monday, January 9, the head of the Kharkiv regional administration said. Oleg Sinegubov said a missile strike hit a local market in the village. A 13-year-old was among the wounded, according to Sinegubov. Footage released by the Ukrainian parliament shows a large crater surrounded by damaged and burned buildings. Cred…