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
Republicans in the state Senate are working to greatly boost the penalties for people who supply the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl, advancing a bill on Thursday that would subject someone who makes, transports or sells the drug to life in prison or the death penalty if someone dies after taking the drug.
my colleague, jacob soboroff, has been investigating how these dangerous substances make their way into america. and it s not just flowing over the border. they re streaming in from the internet, as well. this new report is part of our special ongoing series, one nation overdosed. and jacob joins me now from los angeles. what did you find, good sir? craig, much of these synthetic opioid fentanyl is made in china. some smuggled by mexican cartels. but there is another way fentanyl is getting into the united states. that is in the mail, ordered online. and we looked into how easy it actually is. take a look. in montgomery county, ohio, what local officials call the overdose capital of america, the synthetic opioid fentanyl, is causing carnage like america has never seen. and law enforcement says it s just a click away on the internet. they can order it from china. and they ll mail it to your