#Ukraine: Wasteful Soviet style Ukrainian war-fighting. Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsonco
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🗓️ 31 August 2023
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#Ukraine: Wasteful Soviet style Ukrainian war-fighting. Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS. I am the world. I'm John Bachelor. Ukraine conflict. Headline from London. |
| 0:11.3 | Russia suffers biggest drone attacks since invasion. Moscow has accused Ukraine, goes the |
| 0:16.5 | copy, Maxim Tucker for the London Times. |
| 0:20.0 | A Moscow has accused Ukraine of staging its largest attack yet on Russian soil after |
| 0:26.2 | a wave of drone struck scoff. Airports setting two military transport planes light and |
| 0:32.9 | damaging two more. Thick black smoke billed over scoff, which is more than 400 miles north |
| 0:40.6 | of the nearest Ukrainian port border, suggesting that other targets may have been hit, such |
| 0:46.2 | as an oil depot, in Kiev two security guards were killed overnight as cruise missiles |
| 0:50.7 | and drones targeted the capital. |
| 0:52.8 | I welcome Colonel Jeff McCawson, the United States Army retired artilleryman. He is visiting |
| 0:58.3 | Professor Dickinson College, CEO of Diamond Six Leadership and Strategy and CBS News. |
| 1:03.7 | Jeff, the drone attack has been routine. We've talked about drones in the war, both sides |
| 1:09.9 | where they get from from Iran, Turkey. However, this looks different, striking 400 miles |
| 1:16.5 | outside of Ukraine and striking what appears to be an undefended Russian city. This is |
| 1:23.2 | none of the Moscow air defenses. Am I over reading this or has something as a decision |
| 1:29.4 | been made in Kiev? |
| 1:31.4 | Definitely, John. I think a decision is made in Kiev, not only for the ranges that we're |
| 1:36.3 | seeing targets and get deep into Russia, but also the number of attacks. It's without |
| 1:40.7 | a doubt the largest one day attack by Ukraine using drones on Russia, spanning half a dozen |
| 1:46.5 | regions inside Russia to include as you mentioned, Peskov, which is only that target only |
| 1:52.4 | about 30 miles from the border of Estonia, of course, a NATO member. And on the reverse |
| 1:57.9 | of that, of course, Kiev suffered what some have been describing as the most powerful |
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