russian city of belgorod. russia has accused ukraine of mounting cross-border attacks on fuel depose and military installations. there s new video from the ukrainians that shows what they say are ukrainian drone strikes on russian vessels inside the black sea. not far from snake island. something worth watching there. overnight house speaker nancy pelosi in poland, she met with the polish president there following her trip to kyiv over the weekend. she says the visit will send an unmistakable message to the world america stands with nato allies in support of ukraine. i want to go live to cnn s matt rivers this morning who is in kyiv. i know you are closely following the situation in mariupol, hundreds of people still trapped inside that steel plant and in zaporizhzhia where she are waiting for bus loads hopefully of citizens from mariupol to be
damage that was done was exactly what we intended and this worked perfectly. can you thread that for us in terms of giving us an assessment? the base itself, the majority of the to the base itself was infrastructure. these strikes were very targeted. they didn t take out the syrian air force as some were calling for yesterday. what they were trying to do was send a clear message, clear signal that the specific assets that were used for this chemical attack earlier this week on civilians near idlib, those were what were targeted. they went after about 20 syrian aircraft, they went after several hardened aircraft hangars, some fuel depose, the places they refuel the aircraft on the base, they went after the air defenses. they believe they disabled the air defenses at that base, which was relatively minor. it was a radar. it was a russian-made syrian
communications or radar operations or the tower of this airfield. there s no real indication here that they were trying to wipe out the runway here. there did seem to be some damage to what seems to be the taxiway over here. but beyond that, one of the targets was very clearly to hit these fortified bunkers out here. i can t call them bunkers. they re fortified hangars for aircraft out here. and you can pretty easily move around here and see that there are at least 15 of these spread around this facility. we counted them all earlier, and i m not sure if i ll hit them all right now. but these bunkers are where they keep aircraft, for example, the migs, a mainstay of their air force here. if you look at the bunkers and move in a little tighter on one of these images, you can see them better here. they re also trying to hit anything like fuel depose, things that may be able to help them run here. the question is how much damage was actually done? if you move in and look at this video, tha