extreme disturbing. it has rare to have a daytime air wave and attacks. it s the third wave in 48 hours. on sunday, we saw the biggest drone attack the country has seen since the start of the wash, according to ukrainian air force officials. then we saw a monday overnight attack and this attack in the middle of the day. what s different, look, to be clear. people in kyiv are back to life. they re going to school, going to their jobs, having lunch, sitting outside. they are still enjoying life in this great city. but sheltering in the middle of day is different. when you are in your bed, you go to your shelter in your house, stay upstairs, go to the basement. during the day, 41,000 people went down to the subway, according to kyiv city officials. that is different and new. ukrainian officials say russia is testing the air defenses. they are looking to identify and exhaust the air defenses. over the weekend, i had a chance to speak with senior presidential adviser. we asked him about whe
the russian authorities and people on the ground asking why the russian army, which allegedly is so strong, was not able to protect the border, boris. fred pleitgen from kyiv, ukraine, thank you so much. brianna, this is especially significant because the ukrainian counteroffensive is looming and you have this attack on russian soil. that certainly plays into it. we have retired u.s. army brigadier general steve anderson to talk to us a little bit about that. what do you see as the strategy for what we ve seen here. what this was, was essentially a raid. these are essentially russian sympathizers with the ukrainians that have just raised some hell. they have gotten nine armored vehicles, drove up about five kilometers into russia and what they have done is created a lot of havoc. you ve seen all the denials and all the issues. they re putting the pressure on putin and showing the ukrainians are strong and resilient and giving a needed shot in the arm
yesterday and counterterrorism operations are now over. remember, two groups of anti-putin russian nationals who are aligned with the ukrainian military claim responsibility for the attacks in the region yesterday. belgorod is just across trussia side of the border. the ukrainian military says it has nothing to do with the attacks. let s take you to kyiv and fred pleitgen. fred, where do things stand right now? reporter: hi there, boris. you can see the anger and humiliation on the part of the kremlin and russian authorities as well. it s quite interesting because the spokesman for vladimir putin came out earlier today and tried to blame the ukrainians for this. as you mentioned, these were russian nationals going into russia and doing this. but the spokesman for the kremlin there saying that he believed these were ukrainian nationalists and he said it shows that russia is under attack from ukraine so the russians obviously using this to justify their war in ukraine which has been go
start to get closer together. phil mattingly live for us, thank you so much. the kremlin is lauchnching new investigation into drone attacks it claims were carried out by pro-ukraine forces inside russia. what kyiv is now saying about it. plus the man accused of killing four university of idaho students appearing in court choosing to stand silent when asked to enter a plea. we ll get reaction to this move from the father of one of the ve victims. cnn news central returns i in moments. i hired local talent. if i knew about upwork, i would have hired actually talented d people from all over the e world. instead of talentless people from all over my house. -grandpa. -shh.. shh.. shh.. -but. -shh.. shh. shh. -but. -oh. this is how we work now
crucially for kyiv, it includes patriot air defence systems is made in the us. they are seen as one of the best of this kind. they can launch missiles for up to 150 kilometres, they can take out missiles as well as enemy aircraft. what kyiv is saying is that will allow them to repel russian aircraft and keep them out of ukrainian airspace, because up to this point in this war neither side has secured air dominance. this is part of a real big announcement from berlin. 18 leopard tanks have also been announced, 500 pistols, 3000 anti tank weapons, a military hospital alongside with estonia, and 100,000 hand grenades. itjust shows how expensive this conflict is in just about every way. but i think for right now, kyiv has been asking for air defence systems to be improved and ammunition, there were doubts over stocks running out, but this will go some way to relax those worries.