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1. 0:00Russian officials say seven people have
2. 0:02been killed and 50 others injured in
3. 0:04Ukrainian drone attacks overnight.
4. 0:07That set an oil depot and two warehouses
5. 0:10belonging to Russia's biggest online
6. 0:12retailers on fire. This is the moment
7. 0:15the warehouse collapsed in flames.
8. 0:19Huge clouds of smoke could be seen then
9. 0:22in the skies. The mayor of Moscow said
10. 0:24more than 370 drones were sent towards
11. 0:27the capital region overnight. Ukraine
12. 0:29hasn't commented. Let's talk to our
13. 0:31correspondent Paul Adams who's in Kyiv.
14. 0:34Paul, extraordinarily dramatic pictures.
15. 0:36Tell us the extent of these Ukrainian
16. 0:38drone attacks.
17. 0:41>> Well, look, I think it's worth pointing
18. 0:43out that both Russia and Ukraine have
19. 0:45been hitting each other's economic
20. 0:47infrastructure, and particularly energy
21. 0:49infrastructure, for a long time, and
22. 0:52some of those attacks are deep, deep
23. 0:54inside Russia. I think what is different
24. 0:55about this is that I think this is the
25. 0:57first time that Ukrainians have hit
26. 1:01this Wildberries online retailer, where
27. 1:05these warehouses.
28. 1:07This is an unusual development. It
29. 1:09mirrors something that the you the
30. 1:11Russians have been doing in Ukraine for
31. 1:13quite a long time. But, what President
32. 1:15Zelenskyy has said is that these depots
33. 1:19are used to store and transport key
34. 1:23components that go into the Russian
35. 1:26drones that are used to target
36. 1:28Ukrainian cities. Some
37. 1:31defense experts I've been talking to
38. 1:33really confirm that. They say that
39. 1:35Wildberries is a place that a lot of of
40. 1:38Russian military go to for their
41. 1:39supplies, and that it is part,
42. 1:42effectively, part of the logistics
43. 1:44network used by the Russian military. I
44. 1:48dare say the Kremlin would take a
45. 1:49different view of that. Certainly, from
46. 1:52the scenes that we have seen, this
47. 1:54caused absolute havoc and panic among
48. 1:57the civilian staff uh manning the
49. 1:59warehouse. The The attack started at
50. 2:01night. We've seen scenes of people
51. 2:04injured and panic-stricken inside the
52. 2:06warehouse. And then those attacks
53. 2:08continued uh into the daytime. And we've
54. 2:11seen video of drones hitting and uh
55. 2:14members of staff fleeing again in panic.
56. 2:17So, this was a pretty bold attack and a
57. 2:20new development in terms of the sorts of
58. 2:23targets that Ukraine now feels it is
59. 2:25entitled to go after.
60. 2:27>> Well, what effect are these continuing
61. 2:31drone strikes having more widely on
62. 2:33Russia? We've been hearing about fuel
63. 2:34shortages for some time now.
64. 2:38>> Yeah, and I think that remains one of
65. 2:40the the key features of Ukraine's
66. 2:42long-range strikes. And in fact, there
67. 2:45was another uh depot oil depot hit in
68. 2:48last night's attacks. And the uh cloud
69. 2:51of smoke hanging over that depot is
70. 2:53pretty thick. Uh the effect has been to
71. 2:57deny uh parts of the Russian military
72. 3:00the vital supplies that they need in
73. 3:02terms of fuel and other
74. 3:05uh petroleum supplies. Uh and in fact,
75. 3:08to make life difficult for Russian
76. 3:10civilians altogether. In Crimea, you
77. 3:13know, we've already had reports of
78. 3:16rationing and people being told to
79. 3:17conserve uh energy, uh that petrol is in
80. 3:21very very short supply.
81. 3:23Um this is a very concerted effort by
82. 3:27Ukraine to do to Russia what Russia has
83. 3:30been doing to Ukraine for some time,
84. 3:32which is to starve the country of as
85. 3:34much energy as it possibly can.
86. 3:37>> Paul, thank you very much. Paul Adams in
87. 3:39Kyiv.