BREAKING: Russia unleashes worst attack on Ukraine in weeks
Val and Terrell, this was the biggest Russian attack so far this year, with over 80 missiles launched. At least nine people are dead, at least a dozen more injured, and right now Ukraine is dealing with widespread power outages. The sun rising over a smoke-filled sky in Kyiv this morning. Overnight, Ukrainian officials reported multiple explosions from Russian missile attacks in cities across the country. This woman is saying, they are destroying our city. I go to bed and don't know if I will wake up the next day. Several people were killed and many others wounded in this latest round of Russian attacks.
It comes as the fight for the city of Bakhmut continues, but Ukrainian forces are holding on. This drone operator takes cover from bombardment right outside his window, but still holds up his iPad to try and keep the signal connection. ABC's James Longman is there. They're rumors of a Ukrainian retreat from Bakhmut, but this is the road that leads to the city. It's been very active all day, and it doesn't feel like they want to give it up anytime soon. In Washington, director of U.S.
National Intelligence, Avril Haynes told the Senate Wednesday she doesn't believe Russia will make major territorial gains in Ukraine this year because it's suffering such high casualty rates. But she said Putin is playing the long game. Putin most likely calculates that time works in his favor and that prolonging the war, including with potential pauses in the fighting, may be his best remaining pathway to eventually securing Russia's strategic interests in Ukraine, even if it takes years. Haynes says the Russian military is taking heavy casualties and dealing with personnel and ammunition shortages, exhaustion and morale challenges. And on the battlefield, there is currently a grinding attritional war in which neither side has a definitive military advantage.
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