This thick white smoke indicates what ukraine says is a successful strike on the headquarters of russias black sea navy in crimea. Russia illegally annexed the Southern Ukrainian Peninsula of crimea in 2014. This month, ukraine has carried out several attacks on the region, destroying a Russian Air Defence system and damaging a ship and a submarine in a dry dock. Kyiv is also trying to cut off russian supply lines as it continues with its Counter Offensive further north. 0ur Senior International correspondent 0rla guerin is in kyiv. Kyiv could hardly have picked a more high profile target than the headquarters of russias Black Sea Fleet in crimea and a source in the Ukrainian Air force told the bbc that the type of missile used was a storm shadow Cruise Missile and those are supplied by the uk and france. We have seen footage showing a massive impact on the building and tonight they have been claims in the past half an hour on social media that the commander of the Black Sea Fleet was
Correspondent orla guerin is in the ukrainian capital, kyiv tonight, and joins us now. Is the counteroffensive intensifying . Is the counteroffensive intensifying . Is the Counteroffensive Intensi Inc . ~ ,. , intensifying . Well, it has been a bus da , intensifying . Well, it has been a busy day, sophie. Intensifying . Well, it has been a busy day, sophie. From intensifying . Well, it has been a | busy day, sophie. From ukraines point of view, a successful one. It has managed to hit the headquarters of russias Black Sea Fleet in the Crimean Peninsula with a missile. We know there is damage to the building. We are not sure how much. One ukrainian spokesman has said on social media, we wanted a bigger hole. But undoubtedly, ukraine could hardly have picked a more symbolic target. Its a headline grabbing attack, it is a showy attack. It is not the first time that ukraine has struck at Russian Military and the structure in premier. As ukraine faces into the second winter of war, we know i
Continued occupation in a place that seems a cornerstone of its invasion from as far back as 2014. There is also a connection between this Missile Strike and ukraines continued counteroffensive further north. What they are trying to do is frustrate russian supply lines and isolate swathes of occupied territory in the hope that troops will run out of supplies. Now, president zelensky has just completed a visit to the us. Hes in canada currently, and i think what were seeing now is Battlefield Progress increasingly getting linked to the politics of it all. Because, yes, he is being warmly welcomed by both countries, but there are political corners that are growing increasingly sceptical as to what the ukrainian victory might look like and as for how long western allies should be pumping billions of dollars into ukraine. So its becoming increasingly high stakes for president zelensky, whos now having to do a fair bit of negotiating in his foreign policy. As james mentioned in his report t