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n/a Now new signs of the Ukrainian counter offensive unfold this morning near Moscow. That's where Russia claims It intercepted 5 Ukrainian drones. And While There Are No Immediate Reports of Casualties or Damage, Russia Is Offering A fairly powerful Description Of The encounter, Calling In a quote awarded Terrorist attack. Cnn Bed Minute Is Live In Eastern Ukraine. And first, What Have you Heard From Ky, How are Is Ukraine Responding.
Ben Lieberman Attack’, Ke is Responding With A Certain Amount of Sarcasm hasn't Given It That The Russian the foreign ministry, the Russian Foreign ministry spokeswoman. Maria Is saying that this was a case of international terrorism. We just got a statement from An Adviser To The Ukrainian President That Says The Russian Foreign Ministry Should Realize That A Terrorist Is attack Is When You Have Been Deliberately Fought crews and ballistic missiles at residential areas and crowded pizzeria for 16 months. So certainly, Obviously, The Ukraine aren't going to accept responsibility for this incident In Moscow But certainly, It is somewhat ironic that Russia country that has launched a full scale invasion of Ukraine since February of last year is complaining about a few drones over Moscow. Now according to information, we have, there were 5 drones in the Moscow...
Ben Lieberman The Moscow metro metropolitan area 4 of them were brought down by air defenses 1 by electronic warfare means. Now as a resolve, of these drones, which didn't cause any damage or injury to people. The 14 flights at 1 of the 4 airports in Moscow were diverted that according to the Ta news agency. And of course, it's important to keep in mind, This isn't the first time that drones Of Unknown Origin Have been cited over Moscow in May, There Was An incident where In fact, 1 drone The Kremlin claimed was exploded over the Kremlin itself, the Russians alleged that It was An Assassination attempt Against Vladimir putin. Hard?
n/a The Context For This, Of course, Is The Counter offensive That You Crane Has Been Running The Last Couple Of Weeks. So Are We Looking At Retaliation? Or Is There A Possibility This Is Part Of that Effort.
Ben Lieberman It's Hard To Say. This The Ukrainians Have been involved without source knowing whether they were Behind Today's incident In Moscow. But they Have done A variety of things They've are aimed to sort of undermine public confidence in the ability of Moscow to actually run the country. So, for instance, There have been cross border. Incur into Russia, there have been regular drone attacks on Across the Border In areas in Southern Russia.
Ben Lieberman And therefore, This is Really More Than anything, Part Of A psychological warfare effort Against The Russians, It goes back quite some time. So it's hard to say whether this is part of the counter offensive, but it's definitely an attempt to just Shake The Confidence of The Russian Public In Their Leadership.
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