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hello everyone we made it to the best
day of the week Fray I'm Ki wire this is
cnn1 before we dive into the weekend we
got one more chance to download some
knowledge and information into our
brains so let's get to it we start with
an update on the ongoing war in Ukraine
the conflict there goes back to February
of 2014 when Russia illegally annexed
Crimea from Ukraine then in February
2022 Russia launched a full-scale
invasion of Ukraine starting the biggest
conflict in Europe since World War II
Russia continues to gain Ukrainian
territory resulting in a refugee crisis
and tens of thousands dead this week
Ukrainian President Vladimir zinski
presented his victory plan to Ukrainian
Parliament the ambitious plan to end the
war has five points including NATO
members ship for Ukraine and proposals
to strengthen Ukraine's defenses like
improving air defense systems the plan
also calls for the continuation of the
incursion in Russia's KK region where
Ukraine's military has taken over
Russian territory as an important
bargaining chip the goal of the plan
overall would be to eventually secure
future peace talks with Russia the
proposals come as Ukraine is facing
several setbacks on the Eastern Front
Line Russia keeps making incremental
claims on the denet region and continues
to attack Ukrainian cities with drone
and missile strikes preparing for winter
will be a major task in Ukraine as
Russia continues to attack its energy
infrastructure and reluctance from the
West has been another setback for
Ukraine leaders have had to tow a line
of supporting Ukraine while avoiding
being swept into a larger war with
Russia allies like the US have
repeatedly denied allowing Ukraine to
use longrange missiles to hit targets
deep inside Russia and allies have been
reluctant to invite Ukraine to join the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization while
the conflict continues which would lead
to full NATO membership which is founded
on a principle of collective defense
without additional tangible support
coming from European or us allies
ukrainians are using their resources
prudently CNN got rare and unprecedented
access to one Ukrainian Mission striking
Russian targets Fred pin shows us how it
all went down
Ukrainian drones attacking Southwestern
Russia Russian air defense is
frantically trying to take them down
before they slam into their
targets this massive drone strike
carried out in late September by
Ukraine's defense intelligence agency
the
G and they granted CNN unprecedented
access to the entire Mission their
target a Russian Ammo Depot the
ukrainians say is storing missiles
supplied to MOS by Iran even though tan
vehemently denies giving Russia
ballistic missiles the launch location
totally secret the mission run in near
complete darkness we can only identify
the unit Commander by his call sign
Vector how fast do you guys have to be
able to do all this now I hope it will
be in 20 40 minutes okay after
installing the warheads and punching in
the flight path they push the drones to
the takeoff area the pilots going
through final
checks then they get to
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go the launch is always one of the most
difficult and most sensitive parts of
the mission they have to follow the UAV
very fast at their cars to make sure it
gets into the air all right the drones
disappear quickly into the night
sky the GU has been behind hundreds of
long- range missions into Russia they
say including this September attack on
an Ammo Depot between Moscow and St
Petersburg causing massive explosions
visible for
Miles the ukrainians believe they hit
hundreds of missiles and
explosives and in July they hit an oil
refinery on Russia's Black Sea Coast
causing a major fire there in total the
GU says these drone units are
responsible for about a third of the
successful strikes deep into Russian
territory operational security is
extremely important for this team so
we're on our way to the next secret
location right now they remain on the
Move almost all the time right now we're
going to a place where they're going to
do the detail planning for the flight
paths and where we'll see the actual
drones the weapons Depot is about 400
mil from the Ukrainian Border in the
southwestern Russian village of cutlan a
major problem a mesh of powerful Russian
air defenses guarding the area the Drone
Pilots tried to find even the smallest
corridors to avoid Russian radars they
gave us permission to show a simplified
version of the flight path they
calculated for this Mission with dozens
of waypoints and changes of Direction
but they'll also launch dozens of decoy
drones like these which they want the
Russians to detect and to shoot down
they even put tin foil on the wings to
give them a bigger radar signature so
you want the Russian Radars to see this
think that it's a bigger drone very good
but these are the actual strike drones
the Ukrainian made Antonov
a196 named luy Ukrainian for fierceness
or
rage they carry up to 500 lb warheads
and fly around, 1300 miles and they fit
into the back of these nondescript
trailers for covert
deployment the ukrainians say they get
good results with the ly drones but what
they really need is permission from the
US and its allies to use Western
supplied lach longer distance weapons
why do you need the permission for using
Western weapons deep inside Russian
territory uh we want to want to finish
this War uh as soon as we can and we
understand that if we will have better
equipment better weapon we can finish it
very quickly I don't want my son or
other children to have war in the future
so I want to finish it in my life so for
protecting their life uh from such
disaster like we received for
Mission so far the US is not allowing
Ukraine to fire American supplied
weapons deep into Russia as Russia has
escalated its own aerial attacks against
Ukrainian cities and infrastructure
using heavy guided Glide bombs cruise
missiles designed to take out whole
aircraft carrier strike groups and
nuclear capable strategic
bombers all the ukrainians have are
their little drones launching them in
swarms to even have a chance to
penetrate Russia's air defenses while
the Russians claim to have shot down the
drones a video posted on social media
shows what appear to be those drones
impacting and major explosions in the
area of the arms Depot and Ukrainian
defense intelligence showed CNN the
unblurred version of this video now
heavily blurred for operational security
reasons and it shows 11 blasts coming
from the same place they say so large
they're confident they hit their target
targets CNN was also able to
independently verify through a source
what seems to be a direct hit on the
facility we're not publishing the image
to protect the source's anonymity but it
showed an explosion at the facility and
what seems to be wreckage scattered
around a maxar image shared with CNN
shows the same heavily damaged building
with some debris still laying on the
floor signs that the Russian military
may have cleaned up the
site a small but important victory in
their on going covert war against a
powerful
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enemy today's story getting a 10 out of
10 let the gourd times roll or attack a
very different kind of giant pumpkin
created a comically chaotic scene in
Ohio Bay Village Police shared Dash can
video of officers dispatched to remove a
giant inflatable Jackal lanard that
rolled out into the road and then in a
spooky turn of events the pumpkin
appeared to swallow the officers trying
to Wrangle it no humans or pumpkins were
harmed and the inflatable Halloween
decoration was returned to its owners
Keep Your Head on a swivel this weekend
everyone I hope you have an absolutely
awesome couple of days but before we go
best part of the show you shout out to
Pierce Middle School in Milton
Massachusetts we see you Warriors and
shout out to your Massachusetts Middle
School principal of the Year Dr fish
rise up make this weekend one for the
books remember you are more powerful
than you know I'm KY w has been a
blessing to spend this week with you
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