cnn's scott mclane has been following these developments closely and joins us now.o point out that many of the targets in these russian attacks don't have any military value. >> reporter: this has been a familiar theme throughout this war when it comes to russian targeting. you've seen the ukrainians really making huge efforts to retake land in the east and southern parts of the country, and the russians have been largely responding by air, through missile attacks and through drone attacks. the most recent missile attacks, according to the ukrainians, was on two schools in the zaporizhzhia region, two schools and two villages in the zaporizhzhia region. nobody was hurt, but pictures from the scene shows parts of those buildings are absolutely flattened, completely to the ground. the city of zaporizhzhia has been absolutely pounded as of late by russian strikes, by drones, and by missiles, the most recent was just yaez kamikaze drone attack damaged structure. those drones are lethal because they can loiter in the sky before picking out their precise target. in the ru

cnn scott mclane following developments from outside 10 downing street and joined here in london by johnl. visiting professor at kings college london. well, let's begin by going to our squad outside downing street, not far from here. scott, johnson said when he announced that he was backing out yesterday that he had the votes but not the unity. i guess we'll never know whether or not he was telling the truth, but the reality is that this could help penny mordaunt with that 100 vote count even though we know sunak is the front-runner. >> we know that in terms of public declarations of support,rishi has more than 40. penny has less than 40. publicly boris johnson was well short of the 100 he would have needed. it is entirely possible he did, in fact, have the 102 mps he says he did behind him, but good chunk of them were unwilling to come out publicly with that declaration given the political sensitivity backing a horse this late in a race. but you're right. penny mordaunt is trying desperately to pick up some of those support frers the boris johnson camp is rishi sunak. mordaunt will have