a warm welcome to our viewers joining us from the united states and all around the world. i m paula newton. ahead on cnn newsroom, the u.s. and canada authorized the takedown of a third high-altitude object in recent days, but just what was it? even as the death toll in syria and turkey climbs, officials are looking for answers. why did so many buildings crumble? ukraine says it shot down 20 drones from iran during a russian attack. ahead, a live report from kyiv. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with paula newton. so it happened again. for the third time in a week, a u.s. fighter jet has shot down an object over north american air space. the canadian prime minister, justin trudeau, says the latest object violated canadian air space and was taken down by a u.s. f-22 fighter jet over the yukon in the northwest of canada. mr. trudeau and u.s. president joe biden authorized the strike by the country s shared air defense organization, norad. we ll hear mor
Thermobaric flamethrowers are formidable and fearsome weapons that Ukrainian troops see in their nightmares. They inflict devastating damage and are target number one for Ukrainian drones.
grueling fighting. and yet also wondering when and how a renewed russian onslaught might play out. reporter: you ve seen probing attacks. very attacks that have taken a lot of casualties, according to both ukrainians and united kingdom defense intelligence. around bakhmut and the donetsk axis, as ukrainian officials call it, you ve seen these very intense fighting. thermobaric weapons, potentially, by russians, used in that small town, in the east, as well as russian forces taking heavy losses as they try to probe the defenses and even try to remove some of the mines that are heavily placed in that area to stop a russian advance. you haven t seen yet this major push by the russian forces. possibly they are unable to do that. but the expectation is, as huge