Latest / DEEP INSIGHT / Several killed in one of the largest aerial onslaughts in four years

Transcript

Several killed in one of the largest aerial onslaughts in four years · DEEP INSIGHT

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Well out to Ukraine. Remember that war.
• 0:03
  Speaker 2: Russia has launched nearly one thousand drones at Ukraine in
• 0:06
  Speaker 2: the last twenty four hours. Authorities said several people have
• 0:09
  Speaker 2: been killed in one of the largest aerial onslaughts in
• 0:12
  Speaker 2: four years. Many of the targets were were far from
• 0:16
  Speaker 2: the front lines in the west of the country, among
• 0:19
  Speaker 2: them a seventeenth century church in the UNESCO protected old
• 0:23
  Speaker 2: town of Naviv. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelinski said the attack
• 0:27
  Speaker 2: showed Russia's absolute depravity.
• 0:31
  Speaker 3: A time lapse from the International Space Station shows Ukraine's
• 0:34
  Speaker 3: capital besieged while the rest of the country is plunged
• 0:37
  Speaker 3: into darkness. The bright light in the center of the
• 0:40
  Speaker 3: screen is Kiev. The streaks of light are lightly Russian missiles,
• 0:46
  Speaker 3: the flashes of light that follow explosions in Kiev. In
• 0:51
  Speaker 3: the months since these recordings, there has been no let
• 0:53
  Speaker 3: up in the fighting. Russia launched a massive overnight wave
• 0:58
  Speaker 3: of four hundred drones supported by missile in artillery fire
• 1:01
  Speaker 3: at Ukrainian targets throughout the country. The residents of this
• 1:04
  Speaker 3: apartment in Zapporisia barely had time to flee the assault.
• 1:13
  Speaker 4: A very loud explosion woke us up. We quickly gathered
• 1:16
  Speaker 4: our things and ran downstairs. Everything was on fire and
• 1:20
  Speaker 4: our floor there was a direct hit to our floor,
• 1:23
  Speaker 4: but our flat is on the opposite side. There was
• 1:26
  Speaker 4: smoke and we took our three month old child and
• 1:28
  Speaker 4: ran quickly to the underground shelter. My car is destroyed.
• 1:32
  Speaker 4: All of our windows were blown out.
• 1:38
  Speaker 3: Brazen daylight attacks like here in the VIV continued during
• 1:41
  Speaker 3: the day. Experts worn this could be the start of
• 1:44
  Speaker 3: an expected spring offensive and warned that Ukraine civilians are
• 1:48
  Speaker 3: squarely in the crosshairs.
• 1:51
  Speaker 5: Strikes on energy and other vital infrastructure cutting civilians off
• 1:55
  Speaker 5: from the basics of survival electricity, water, heat.
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: Tens of thousands of families.
• 2:01
  Speaker 5: Across the country are left in the dark and cold
• 2:04
  Speaker 5: for weeks on end. These attacks reflect a sustained pattern
• 2:08
  Speaker 5: of damage to the systems on which civilians depend to survive,
• 2:12
  Speaker 5: with you know, increasingly stepping in to fill the gaps
• 2:15
  Speaker 5: left by the deterioration of essential services.
• 2:21
  Speaker 3: With fighting reported across the front, civilians here are bracing
• 2:26
  Speaker 3: from more waves of Russian assaults.
• 2:31
  Speaker 2: Let's pick this up with my Coola belis Kov, who
• 2:33
  Speaker 2: is a research fellow at Ukraine's National Institute for Strategic
• 2:36
  Speaker 2: Studies as part of the Office of the President is
• 2:39
  Speaker 2: also a senior analyst that the Ukrainian NGO come back alive.
• 2:43
  Speaker 2: He joins us from Leviv in Western Ukraine, which, as
• 2:47
  Speaker 2: you saw in the report, has been hit today.
• 2:50
  Speaker 1: Welcome to d W. How has your day been.
• 2:55
  Speaker 6: Well, it's another difficult day of the war with another
• 2:59
  Speaker 6: Ukrainian and a bench of Ukrainian city has been attacked.
• 3:02
  Speaker 6: And it's a good reminder to everyone outside observers at
• 3:05
  Speaker 6: the fact that Ukraine survived this terrible winter, it doesn't
• 3:09
  Speaker 6: mean that Russian attacks would stop, and Russia definitely would
• 3:12
  Speaker 6: target criticular infrastructure, the infrastructure to sustain Ukrainian society because
• 3:17
  Speaker 6: there are very small chances that there would be major
• 3:20
  Speaker 6: advances on the front line and major breaks. So they
• 3:22
  Speaker 6: are banking on Ukrainian state not being able to function,
• 3:26
  Speaker 6: so be prepared for more of this kind of attacks.
• 3:29
  Speaker 2: Unfortunately, this was a massive attack, one thousand drones in
• 3:33
  Speaker 2: twenty four hours. Ukraine's air defenses are famously running low
• 3:37
  Speaker 2: on munitions. How did those air defenses cope?
• 3:43
  Speaker 6: Well, it's kind of a typical attack and probably for
• 3:47
  Speaker 6: Russians it would be difficult to sustain the Stampo attacks
• 3:49
  Speaker 6: because you need quite a lot of time to program
• 3:51
  Speaker 6: each ub. Otherwise, we see how Russian adjusted or Ukrainian
• 3:56
  Speaker 6: count adjustment. So they decided to launch tow waves, so
• 4:00
  Speaker 6: one during night and another during day, and definitely when
• 4:03
  Speaker 6: a lot of munitions was consumed during the night, it
• 4:06
  Speaker 6: means that the attack during the day would be more effective,
• 4:08
  Speaker 6: more deadly. So it's another sign that Russians are constantly
• 4:11
  Speaker 6: involving in zero deadly tactics of attacking Ukraine and civilians
• 4:15
  Speaker 6: and zer infrastructure.
• 4:16
  Speaker 1: Right, So that's that's that's new?
• 4:19
  Speaker 2: Is it this this date, this double hit nighttime and
• 4:22
  Speaker 2: daytime because you're the Ukrainian munitions will be depleted.
• 4:26
  Speaker 1: That's a new Russian tactic.
• 4:30
  Speaker 6: Well to say that it's a zero vat we need
• 4:34
  Speaker 6: to see, I mean, it's one time occurrence. If they
• 4:36
  Speaker 6: keep attacking us in this way, yes, we can say
• 4:39
  Speaker 6: that there is another evolution in Russian tactics.
• 4:42
  Speaker 2: Understood, And is this the start of a so called
• 4:46
  Speaker 2: spring offensive that so many experts have been predicting.
• 4:52
  Speaker 6: It's better to separate what is going on on the
• 4:54
  Speaker 6: front line and the Russian attacks against infrastructure in their areas.
• 4:59
  Speaker 6: So these are separate processes. Yes, we've seen in a
• 5:02
  Speaker 6: peak in a fight in in the front line during
• 5:04
  Speaker 6: the last eight days, Russians lost more than nine thousand
• 5:08
  Speaker 6: dead and wounded, and the intensity of fighting is quite intense.
• 5:11
  Speaker 6: But Zia continues attacks against critical infrastructure. It's a separate
• 5:15
  Speaker 6: campaign on its zone basically, and they are not very
• 5:20
  Speaker 6: much related. So they exist in parallel. Yes, they complement
• 5:23
  Speaker 6: each other broadly speaking strategically, but these are parallel occurrence
• 5:27
  Speaker 6: and I don't see any like close relation between what
• 5:30
  Speaker 6: is going on on the front line right now and
• 5:32
  Speaker 6: what is going on with the strikes which target infrastructure.
• 5:35
  Speaker 6: The only link is that Russia would bet on destroying
• 5:38
  Speaker 6: infrastructure because there are very slim prospects of a classic
• 5:41
  Speaker 6: brick through the front line.
• 5:44
  Speaker 2: Tell us how Ukraine has been affected, if at all,
• 5:48
  Speaker 2: by the fact that the world attention is now focused
• 5:52
  Speaker 2: on what's going on in Iran?
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: Does that have any effect on.
• 5:55
  Speaker 2: How you prosecute the war, on how how you view
• 6:01
  Speaker 2: how excuse me? Does that have any effect on what
• 6:04
  Speaker 2: you get from the rest of the world.
• 6:08
  Speaker 6: Right now, we don't have any immediate negative direct effects
• 6:12
  Speaker 6: on our our fighting capability, but definitely Ukrainians are very pragmatic.
• 6:16
  Speaker 6: We'll learn the lesson of world politics, and we calculate
• 6:19
  Speaker 6: the risks in terms of competition for the interceptors in
• 6:22
  Speaker 6: coming one, in terms of our partners having balance of
• 6:26
  Speaker 6: book problems if this conflict goes on and they import
• 6:28
  Speaker 6: the fuel, and in general this another transatlantic rieft round
• 6:32
  Speaker 6: of tensions between US and European partners. So all this
• 6:35
  Speaker 6: stuff is widely debated in Ukraine alone, with prospects opened
• 6:39
  Speaker 6: in terms of our expertise in in air defense related
• 6:42
  Speaker 6: specifically to Kamikazi behaviors. So we debate both risks and
• 6:46
  Speaker 6: opportunities inside Ukraine these days.
• 6:48
  Speaker 2: Okay, thanks for talking through that, Michael my Colla Beliskov,
• 6:52
  Speaker 2: Thanks so much