ten miles inside the russian border. that was that weapons depot that you mentioned. russian officials confirmed there was a fire there at that depot saying there was no casualties. the village the depot was in is very small, doesn t even have a traffic light. that s pretty easy to believe. it s sparsely populated. not long after that, there was another set of explosions. this time, about 75 miles or so inside the russian border. whatever was coming their way was struck down by the air defense system but 200 miles inside the russian border, more explosions were heard there. we don t know exactly what was hit but this city is a train port hub, a military hub. it very much potentially may have been some kind of a target. now, the ukrainians are not saying explicitly, yes, this was us but they might as well have. the adviser to president zelenskyy wrote about these
of them pointing towards donbas. on monday they appeared to have gone on the offensive saying they destroyed a weapons depot. volodymyr zelenskyy said tens of thousands are dead in the besieged city of mariupol following weeks of bombardments. cnn can t verify that. mr. zelenskyy said more heavy weapons could help end the siege on the city. ukrainian officials say they are still defending the city. on monday there were unconfirmed reports of a chemical attack in the city. cnn can t independently verify that claim but both ukraine and the u.s. say the threat of chemical attacks needs to be taken seriously.
donbas region. and i am paula newton here in atlanta. following russian president vladimir putin s tough first meeting with a western leader since this invasion began. the u.s. says russia continues to deploy weapons and material into eastern ukraine as it looks to resupply, reinforce, and rearm troops in the donbas. and for days, we have seen this russian military convoy via satellite images but now here it is, on the ground, not far from ukraine s border. notably, pointing northwest towards the eastern donbas region. and there are new images of ukrainian troops preparing for a fight in eastern ukraine. on monday, local officials say they destroyed a russian weapons depot in luhansk. moscow-backed leaders in that area denied that claim, saying
have poland, the main thoroughfare and romania, where germany is able to send, i look like john madden here, able to send weapons through. romania can send weapons through. they have all got to be on the ground right now because we waited too long. that s the key. we waited too long, now we have to go through the land. the question is, if you are poland and you are sending supplies in, whether they are from estonia or germany, and russia spots you through the air. and they take out that supply truck, do we have world war iii? because through rule 5 of the nato doctrine, you hit one, you hit them all. but if you get them hit in the ukrainians does that spur world war iii? now i want to bring you to this little area. this area is controlled by russia. i have been informed that this is basic weapons depot. if things get from us sphraght frustrating righthere, let me gl
and they ve decided to sign up l for six to eight hour shifts here. they get bus rides in, and they sort through everything to make sure everything s in good order. and then the businesspeople who run this centre organise it. they ll start to re pack it, i and they then are in contact with places across the country. which really need food and shoes and tins and tins of food. and one of the most important needs of all is medicine. - and if you just look over there, you ll see the pallets that - need to be sorted out. those have to be sorted out by specialists, - by doctors and pharmacists, i and they will then be sent out and driven out to the hospitals that need them most. - a ukrainian military spokesman has confirmed that a weapons depot in the west of the country was hit in a russian missile strike, but could not confirm whether moscow had used hypersonic weapons. russia s ministry of defence earlier said it had used hypersonic missiles to destroy the underground weapons stora