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truly chilling firsthand look at the destruction caused by russia s increasing use of kamikaze drones against civilian targets in ukraine. cnn s chief international correspondent, clarissa ward, is joining us from kyiv. tell us about what you ve actually seen on the streets of the capital city there. reporter: well, scenes of absolute destruction, devastation, people fearful. people dying and tonight, another impassioned plea from the president here, volodymyr zelenskyy saying in a 12-hour span, wolf, more than 30 of these iranian made 136 so-called kamikaze drones were intercepted as well as several cruise missiles. essentially, zelenskyy begging the international community to give ukraine more sophisticated and more substantial anti aircraft weaponry to protect itself. take a look. a policeman takes aim at the kamikaze drone as it bears down on kyiv. nick nicknamed mopeds in ukraine because of their whine, 28 were launched toward the city on monday. the majority are ....
Has been increasing. there has been a very significant increase in the amount of combat on the west, and on the east of the city. sam kiley there in kyiv, please stay with us. i want to turn to our chief congressional correspondent manu raju on capitol hill. manu, as you know, foreign leaders addressed the congress before, churchill, mandela, rabin. this is the first time one has done so virtually. what message can we expect to hear from zelenskyy today? a call for help and expect a receptive audience, something that will lead to more pressure on congress to act, lead to more pressure on the biden administration to act, expect a call for more armed drones, for mobile air defense systems and act for congress to move forward. just 14 just yesterday, the president signed into law roughly $14 billion in aid that will go to ukraine. there is also other legislative efforts under way, revoking russia s trade status with the united states, imposing a ban on ....
Crews just understand, don t kid yourself, no matter what you all say, that s called world war iii. a senior u.s. defense official, john, tells me ukraine has 56 working fighter jets that are flying between 5 to 10 sorties a day. but not fought in the air and even russian war planes are having a hard time flying over much of ukraine because ukraine is using the mobile air defense systems. sadly, this u.s. official says sending the 24 mig-29s offered by po land to ukraine would not help stop the siege and the encirclement of the population centers because the air space is so contested. the u.s. is trying to get more defense systems to keep the planes at bay, like the russian equivalent of patriot missiles, ....
President biden will speak at 11:45 a.m. tomorrow according to the white house schedule that just came out, anderson. he will talk about what the white house has done so far for ukraine and what they plan to do going forward. we re told by sources tonight that will include $800 million more in security assistance for ukraine. that is new money that they are spending to try to get this military equipment, this lethal assistance to ukraine. of course the question, you know, of how they get that there, president biden said today, has become exceedingly difficult, though they still have been able to do that. he will get specific, we re told, tomorrow. what exactly this $800 million is going to go to, we know zelenskyy will likely ask for armed drones, these easy mobile air defense systems. we ll wait to see if president biden mentions that, although anderson, we re told by officials he s not expected to say yes, we ll do a no-fly zone, because that would get the united states into world wa ....
It s in mizrato or anyplace else is ensheer we have freedom of movement. the first step, ensuring we are able to have the no-fly zone and operate our aircraft with a low level of risk. so as we extend the no-fly zone westward, i think it is likely that we may encounter some of these regimes, mobile air defense systems, and where we encounter those, we will certainly attack them. the larger point of how do you apply air power, particularly in very close combat, is a very, very difficult situation for us. and the identification and the distinction of forces in very close quarters is a particular challenge for us. so we ve been very precise in our structures to the air crews ....