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nic robertson has a never before seen look inside some of these weapons. >> reporter: away from the frontlines, technical intel officer maxim, not his real name, strips down a captured russian significance drone. we are the first journalists they are showing how russia is using western tech to kill ukrainian troops. >> this circuit board is maybe more dangerous than the camera. >> reporter: the cell phone tracker, he says, made in the usa. the engine, made in japan. and the thermal imageer module was made in france, after russia invaded. drones like this one are a terror on the battlefield, and are revolutionizing the way war is being fought. but the battle over controller components inside of them is almost as important as the supply of new rockets and artillery. at the front lines, ukrainian soldiers fear russian drones, and celebrate and share what they call successful hits. kyiv's military intelligence say the drone's powerful cameras, with thermal and infrared imaging, and cell phone tracking, are making it easier for russia to kill ukrainian soldiers. >> from a uav or drone identifying a

all right, charlie robertson, we thank you so much for speaking to us from london. thank you. very much so as we just mentioned, a spike in energy prices bought about partly by the worn ukraine has hit the cost of living for millions and experts. don't see a drop anytime soon. our correspondence in berlin domini came sent us this report on how some parents living in europe, the largest and strongest economy, are going hungry. so their children have something to eat. nicole good, la, prepare as food for her children. they have been at school all day and now back at home, they're hungry, but if their needs are simple, their mother's task is not because putting food on the table is becoming increasingly more expensive. so basically right now with the, the full price is going so high, it's either spending $2.00 or 3 times and, and the, and the amount of food or buying the, the amount that i could afford. and then we have to eat less food. so mainly it means for me buying less food and i'm the one who is going hungry or not eating meal so that the kids can get enough food. and that

nic robertson live at 10 downing street. what a dramatic day, nic. >> reporter: what a hugely traumatic day. boris johnson last night was saying that he would drcling on that he believed that he could win any leadership challenge. but this morning more were resigning. 58 government officials resigned, at least 27 of them ministers. and he recognized that he could no longer hold the confidence of the party and has indicated that he is going to resign. but framing it in such a way that he wants to hang on in office leading the party, leading the country, until the conservative conference which is in the fall in october this year, so he has presented an idea that he would be the caretaker prime minister for a number of months to come. but it is already clear that is not going to fly with this party, the business secretary just to name one has said that we need to replace the prime minister now. and there is an urgency. the opposition party is saying that it is not just boris johnson that needs to be replaced, it is all the cons

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joining us, bianca nobilo and nic robertson. bianca, johnson said he wanted to stay in power because he felt a duty from the mandate. but the polls and resignation of cabinet members in his own party tell a different story? >> you hit the nail on the head. boris johnson kept repeating that refrain over the last days. he felt he needed to stay in position because he had a substantial mandate to deliver. he is referring to the historic election victory, the biggest of the conservative party since 1987 which he delivered in 2019. how times have changed since then. not only has it been demonstrated that when the public have an opportunity to deliver a verdict on johnson right now, he is crushed with electoral defeat. that's one thing. and the other being the mass resing nation, 56 of them. many of whom backed him originally. then we have the poll showing the majority of voters, including the conservatives voters wanted the prime minister to resign. when he said he had a mandate to continue that was a hollow statement because his nea

really appreciate your reporting there, nic robertson in mykolaiv.d now to jason carroll in kyiv. i want to go back to president zelenskyy's calls to evacuate donetsk, a huge undertaking. so walk us through what is behind it and how it would work. >> reporter: and it will be a huge undertaking as you say and they have seen some fierce fighting there in the east. but this is really more about what is to come. this is why this order, this evacuation order, coming out now, there are hundreds of thousands of people in the region, tens of thousands of children, this evacuation order especially going out to those who have children or know people who have children are urging them to get those children, those families out now while they still have time. the reason for that, reason why i say for what is to come, it is the colder frigid temperatures, there will be no gas likely, likely no electricity, programs trouble getting access to clean water. so this is the reason why this evacuation order going out now.. so this is the reason why this evacuation order g

and multi $1000000000.00 pledges were made to talk us through the numbers is charlie robertson, he's the global chief economist at renaissance capital and the author of the book, the time traveling economists. he's running us from london. welcome to al jazeera, thanks so much for speaking to us. so mr. robertson, we heard from germany's chancellor, who vowed to keep the cost of running russia's war and ukraine high for president putin. and also what we know is that russia is now making just as much money from energy exports as it was before the war. so the ban hasn't really worked on russia . the g 7 are now looking at imposing price caps on russian crude. what impact do you think that is going to have? yeah, this is, this is got a long history. if you go back to looking to few months after world war 2, again, the west was, was concerned about commodity supplies, supporting nazi germany efforts. and it even led to france and england considering bombing russians, oil fields, and other bizarre to stop them supplying oil to hitler's germany, you are good allies of the soviet union and t

so mister robertson, we heard from germany as chancellor, who vowed to keep the costs of running russia's war in ukraine high for president putin. and also what we know is that russia is now making just as much money from energy exports as it was before the war. so the ban hasn't really worked on russia . the g 7 are now looking at imposing price caps on russian crude. what impact you think that is going to have? yeah, this is, this is a long history. if you go back to looking to few months after world war 2 began, the west was, was concerned about commodity supplies, supporting not germany efforts. and it even led to france and england considering bombing russians, oil fields, and other bizarre to stop them supplying oil to hit germany, us good allies of the soviet union and the russian time. and there was talk of sending troops across sweden to support fennel into this battle against russia and to stop the idle mines and sweden, supplier, and nazi germany. so this idea of trying to interrupt commodities in some way to, to impact war efforts on the part of the aggressor got a long histor

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if you think about sort of what nic robertson said earlier, which i respectfully disagree with, i don'tsian arms if we withdraw. i don't think they can depend on the russian military. i don't think they want to bet their security on the chinese either. what we have seen here is sort of an acknowledgment that, oh, well, we need the gulf. we need saudi arabia, but what if we thought about that again. what if we realize that actually, they need us and we used the leverage that we have rather than succumb to the leverage they have, and that's just a thought i leave as we continue to follow the trip. >> jason, your takeaway? >> look, i think this is yet another example of the united states sacrificing our values for perceived strategic and economic interests that are probably short term. saudi arabia is a country that buys a lot of weaponry from us and it sells us a lot of oil. these are not people that share our cultural ideals or beliefs. it's a country where mass executions happen in public on a regular basis. murdered one of our colleagues from "the washington post." as josh mentioned, a

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nic robertson is outside number 10 downing street. how much trouble is he in right now?porter: very deep trouble, wolf. 42 senior government officials including ministers have resigned. one of boris johnson's close cabinet ministers, a senior minister, someone who's been a friend and frenemy and political adversary for many years, an influential figure within government, told the prime minister that it was time that he should step down and resign. that he no longer had the support of the party and was not doing right by the country. boris johnson, a few hours later, fired him, creating another vacancy around his cabinet table. what we have heard from one of johnson's top officials this evening in the last half an hour or so is that the prime minister is in a fighting mood. he intends not to listen to all those in the party who have told him it's time to step down. there is a group of lower level, back bench members of parliament who have an influential committee who are considering redrawing their rules as early as next week to have a vote of confidence in the prime mini

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i want to bring in nada bashir and nic robertson live both from london.keep saying that he has nine lives and it seems as though he is at the end of the road here. >> and the question at the moment, it seems that while the prime minister will resign, and seems to have accepted that his party no longer supports him and needs to be replaced, as we see more minister resignations today, he has sort of accepted had now. but indicating that he would stay on in a caretaker type role until the autumn. until the fall. and it is really not clear that he has even the remotest level of support for that. the indications are that he needs to go sooner, that the party need to put in a caretaker. and that seems to be the question here at the moment, who would the caretaker prime minister be in that period. and internationally would they follow in boris johnson's foot steps as being a staunch ally of ukraine, close part partner to the united states. answer probably yes. will they continue a fractious relationship over northern ireland differences? quite possibly yes. but

cnn's nic robertson is joining us live in kyiv.saying about this find? >> reporter: well, we know that ukrainian officials are saying give us more weapons, they are getting the weapons, they know how to fight with them, they will be effective with them, but what they are discovering is that the russian drones that are used on the frontlines and behind the frontlines that pinpoint ammunition stores of the ukrainian forces, that pinpoint the soldiers there who are defending the front lines owing these russian drones are cholk full of western made parts. so now they will want their allies in the west to stop all of that. away from the frontlines, technical intel officer maxine, not his real name, stripped down a captured russian surveillance drone. we're the first journalists they are showing how russia is using western tech to kill ukrainian troops. this circuit board that can pinpoint cellphones is even maybe more dangerous than the camera. the cellphone tracker he says made in the usa. the engine made in japan. and thermal imager m

thank you. >> cnn international diplomatic edit tor nic robertson is with .s a towering figure on the world stage and still is, isn't he. just explain to people who don't necessarily know who he is how important he was in global politics. >> i think that will cain put it well when president trump went to japan and met with shinzo abe, rather than take him into a formal meeting which trump never liked, he took him to the golf that allowed him to have a good relationship with donald trump on relative terms. and abe was a japanese prime minister who really looked out to the world rather than the region. and this is one of his confining characteristics. when he came back to being prime minister 2012 to 2020, in those first two years in office, he had almost 50 foreign trips. so it is little surprise that we hear from not only the current australian prime minister albanese expressing his sadness, but from scott morrison, malcolm turnbull, to previous prime ministers because he connected with them. no surprise that we've heard from honarendra modi expressing his sa

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of the skies, so that their troops just are not as vulnerable as they are right now, jake. >> nic robertsonr us in kyiv, ukraine. >>> russia is largely able to continue its war against the ukrainian people, thanks to all the countries who paid russia for its natural gas. after a temporary pause, gas is falling back to europe once again, at least for now. the nord stream one pipeline is back to delivering gas at about 40% capacity after having to shut down for ten days for maintenance. there is great concern from europe, especially germany, over the limited gas supply. of course, germany is dependant on russia for its energy. fred, germany's dependance on russia's gas is one of the reasons putin has funding for their war in ukraine. is the german government attempting anything to stop this? >> reporter: well, they are, but they seem to have come to the realization, jake, they're not going to be able to get off russian gas any time soon, even though they are trying. the nord stream two pipeline going at about 40% capacity, and the germans are saying that's not going to be enough for the amoun

as nic robertson, nick will continue to work his sources as the u.s. president continues his day of what are key bilateral meetings with regional leaders here. right across the gulf and into the middle east. tough times and lots of tough talk it seems. let's head back to atlanta for our our top stories. kim. >> thanks so much, becky, really appreciate it. >>> ukraine says russian forces are stepping up military strikes across the board. cities of odesa and the kharkiv region coming under rocket or artillery fire early saturday morning. ukraine says a rocket attack in the kharkiv region collapsed an apartment building and left three elderly people dead. in the east ukraine say it is pushed back against russian attempts to gain more ground in the donbas region, including an attack on a strategic highway. scott mcclain joins us live from kyiv. let's start with the rocket and artillery attacks on several ukrainian cities. what more can you tell us? >> reporter: what stands out to me is the city of mykolaiv. it had rocket attacks on a university. there was

nic robertson is live in kyiv.rov said and how ukrainians are reacting to those remarks. >> reporter: lavrov seems to be responding to the fact that the new u.s. supplied missile systems, himars systems are longer range than what the ukrainians have had, more precise than what the ukrainians have had before and they are effective. we've heard from the russian defense chief saying that priority for russian forces are to target these himars systems. lavrov is saying that russia will havhave to push deeper int ukraine to make sure its borders are safer. the foreign minister here in ukraine has said that this really shows that russia is not interested in diplomacy, is interested in taking more territory and that is what lavrov has spoken about there, pushing deeper into ukraine, trying to get more of ukrainian territory. what i think that you can also interpret lavrov saying here is a sort of warning, if you will, not that it will make any difference, to the united states and the uk who are both considering sending eve

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cnn's nic robertson is in ukraine.attack mean for the grain exports that the world so desperately needs? >> yeah, it means that there's a big question mark over russia's commitment because initially, russia said that they didn't do it, and then they said that they did do it. and then they said they were striking military targets. now, sergey lavrov, has said they have the right to continue to strike odesa port to go after military targets. i don't think this was really what was in the u.n. secretary-general's understanding when he brokered this deal, although technically, there is no specific cease-fire agreement in the deal. i have spoken to ukraine's infrastructure minister today. he was the minister, the ukrainian minister who was in istanbul friday to sign that deal. he said look, we're committed. we want to get it done. we hope to be able to get grain moving by the end of the week. that's their hope. obviously, they have got to get some mines out of the way, some sunking ships out of the way. but another thing is

nic robertson is in kyiv.g a rare trip outside of russia, arriving today in tehran, to hold talks with the leaders of iran and turkey for that matter as well. what's behind >> reporter: yeah, this is a visit where putin gets to appear on the world stage. either through the pandemic or since the world began. so what have we seen here? one of the takeaways is his right arm isn't moving so much, and he has a bit of a limp. that's not usual. he met with the iranian president. they discussed a new big $40 billion oil and gas deal with iran, the russians are going to help the iranians with six oil wells and two gas fields. that's the plan there. but we also know they've been talking about buying iranian drones to use in ukraine. u.s. officials say they don't know if the purchases have gone through, but that's possibly on the table there. but with erdogan, when putin sat down with him, interestingly there, erdogan kept putin waiting quite a while. normally it's the other way around. they're talking about getting ukra

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nic robertson outside numbering 10. thanks so much. >> now what happens to the uk's staunch support for ukraine? wolf blitzer sat down with volodymyr zelenskyy and joins me now. wolf, when johnson barely survived a no confidence vote a number of weeks ago, zelenskyy welcomed his survival there, noting how loyola supporter he was for ukraine. i wonder, given that johnson is going now, what is zelenskyy's reaction? >> well, zelenskyy -- president zelenskyy was very, very firm in saying what a great friend of ukraine boris johnson has been. and he's very confident that the uk will continue to support ukraine right now, even after the resignation of prime minister boris johnson. he was very, very pleased by almost everything that boris johnson did. and he spoke very, very movingly about the soon to be exprime minister of the -- ex prime minister of the uk. it was an important note the gatefulness that he showed for the uk and for boris johnson. let me play a clip, an excerpt from the interview. watch this. >> translator: he

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let's bring in cnn's nic robertson, outside number 10 downing street. so tell us, first of all, your reaction to johnson's words as he finally under intense pressure, we should note, from inside his own party, to step down. >> this feels like a place holding resignation and less a resignation from power, because it is behind the doors there, appointing replacement ministers for all those who have quit. more a he is resigned to the fact that his party no longer wants him. last night he was talking about and even earlier this morning talking about holding on, until october, until the fall, until the conservative party's annual conference. today he's talking about holding on for an indeterminate period until a replacement can be found. now, government ministers that are still faithful to him at least publicly are saying that they need not to have chaos, they need to continue to work with unity, within government, to present a united face in this current situation to give some stability to the country at the moment. but there is such a momentum within his p

. >> nic robertson is live at 10 downing street. the speech not surprising, but going to be incredibly unsatisfying to a lot of people who watched it. >> you know, and for those members of his party, potenti potentially insulting because you heard him call it a herd and the herd moved and this began with the resignation of two senior cabinet members and is now 60 officials, senior officials within the government, ministers, cabinet ministers, have gone. is that the herd that boris johnson is referring to? if it is, then that's his party and that's -- he sees them as a herd. this can hardly be the sort of inspirational talk that the party would be looking for. it lacked that emotion. it lacked that sense that he had gone wrong and this was on him and it was about him and his decisions and his character and his flaws. he didn't get that. the process that he is saying is now in place, when he will be replaced by the party, can be a very long process. as many members of his party, members of parliament, who can get eight other mps to su

nic robertson has more. >> reporter: in istanbul, the biggest diplomatic breakthrough in russia's war against ukraine, a deal to ease russia's stranglehold on ukraine and get its grain, 1/5 of the world's supply, to market. >> it will bring relief to developing countries on the edge of bankruptcy and the most vulnerable people on the edge of famine. >> reporter: since the war began, russia has attacked and blockaded ukraine's ports, burnt wheat fields, stolen harvests from farmers. until now, russia has been holding the world's grain hostage. the new deal aims to end that by creating safe shipping channels, using ukrainian pilots to navigate through sea mines, implementation overseen by turkey includes inspecting cargos. russia's defense chief and ukraine's infrastructure minister signed the deal, but not with each other, simply with the u.n. tensions remain and the deal fragile with no hard ceasefire at ports. an adviser to president zelenskyy's chief of staff tweeting in case of provocations, an immediate military response. >> ukraine does not trust russia. i don't think anyone has

cnn's international diplomatic editor nic robertson is joining us now from kyiv.ing? >> reporter: yes, the united states ambassador here has called it outrageous, that russia should strike at one of the ports where this grain export is supposed to begin in the coming days. from what we have seen, and what we understand from officials, the missiles, two cruise missiles, impacted the port area, it appears two boats in the port have been hit. and certainly firefighters are trying to put out a blaze amid two boats. glass broken in the port area around the city. two of the cruise missiles fired were taken town by ukrainian anti -- taken down by ukrainian anti-aircraft fire, but it points to the level of distrust that the ukrainians have for the russians in this deal, that was signed by the russian defense minister just yesterday. >> in istanbul, the biggest diplomatic break-through in russia's war against ukraine. a deal to ease russia's stranglehold on ukraine, and get its grain, one fifth of the world's supply, to market. it. >> it will bring relief for developing co

nic robertson is joining us live from kyiv. and this was an emotional appeal by the ukrainian first lady for weapons, specifically for air defense systems and those long range missiles we've been talking about. why are those missiles so important and what effect do they have on the battlefield? >> reporter: ukraines say that they are having a big effect. and i think that the russian defense minister saying that russian forces should prioritize the targeting of these himars systems, the fact that sergey lavrov is saying essentially because of these systems we're going to fight harder and push deeper, although i think part of that is also signaling to the united states and the uk who will be supplying more of these weapons that they shouldn't supply the even longer range versions of them, which in turn indicates the pressure that russia feels that it is now getting on its military advances or attempts to advance because of these weapon systems. the ukrainians are using them against ammunition stores. so it depletes russia's abili

cnn's nic robertson joins us now from kyiv. what's the situation there now?t, seven cruise missiles fired by russia into odesa. the ukrainians say they were able to knock one of those missiles out of the sky before it reached that important strategic port city. further east in the country, krematorsk, a russian cruise missile fired from the air hit a residential area there. six people injured there, one person killed. schools, cultural centers in the area, about 20 different apartment buildings impacted by that blast, but flames could be seen coming out of one of the buildings. but importantly, the ukrainians saying that in all russia's efforts at advancing their front line, a lot of artillery fire, rocket fire, the ukrainians say they're holding them back thanks to being able to target russia's ammunition dumps and that's thanks to having the himars system that's come from the united states, longer range, more accurate weapons systems. >> also, nic, we understand that russian president putin is making a rare trip out of the country today, meeting with leader

and now we have nic robertson joining us live from kyiv.saying there. what weapons do ukrainian officials are helping them the most right now? >> reporter: the himars system which is something that really got in their hands and had training on over the past couple of weeks they say is delivering a below against the russian forces that the russians hadn't either anticipated or properly prepared for which giving them a military advantage along the frontline right now. it is no surprise that president zelenskyy is going to say these weapon systems are good, that they are successful because he wants more of they wm. frontlines here are long and he only has a handful so far. the advantage of these weapons in particular practerhaps is in name. himars is high moenlt andmobili and if you have a good and effective weapon system, of course russians will figure out where it is and target it. but the other thing that is really in play for the ukrainians right now, what is really hurting the russians, is that these are longer range weapon systems than t

. >> i want to bring in nic robertson who is also in jetta for today's meetings. before we get to your analysis, i want to read this from the publisher and ceo of "the washington post," fred ryan, "the washington post," of course, the former employer of "washington post" columnist jamal khashoggi. he said the fist bump between president biden and muhammad bin salman, the crown prince, was worse than a handshake, it was shameful. it projected a level of intimacy and comfort that delivered to mbs the unwarranted redemption he has been desperately seeking. we heard president biden list what he feels they accomplished today. do you think this was ultimately worth it in terms of the accomplishments he listed? >> it's a very big question to answer in a short way, jake. but let me lay out a couple points here. before i came here to saudi, i talked to a couple of opposition activists. they're not in the country because it wouldn't be safe for them to be in the country. they both believe that unless president biden confronted muhammad bin salman directly on the issue of ja

. >> cnn's nic robertson is with us now.sense, nic, there that russia will have to pause and regroup? >> reporter: there's a hope and there's a belief from the president's office on down that ukraine can push russian forces back. i haven't heard a specific intelligence assessment here saying that they think russia will have to pause, but russia's hitting them hard at the moment in many different places, north, east and south, all the way along the hundreds and hundreds of miles front line and russia is not gaining any territory. i think one part of what the head of mi-6 had to say was important, it's important that ukraine continues to make gains because that boosts morale and the coming winter is going to be a really tough one. so i think that was a very important message for the international community and whatever gains ukraine can make, his assessment appears to be that they're not going to be quick. russia, he says putin has made a strategic failure, may have lost more than 15,000 troops, may be forced into this pause,

let's go to cnn's international diplomatic editor nic robertson, he's got the latest, he's joining us are you learning, nic? >> yeah, wolf, this could really make a difference to some of those nations that are beginning to run out of food supply. the global food insecurity could be really helped by this. but what struck me watching the signing ceremony in istanbul today, at the beginning of the story you're going to see in a few seconds here, you see two people shaking hands, and you might any that that's the russian and ukrainian. it's not, it's the russian and turkish defense ministers. the russian and ukrainian ministers never sit down at the table together to sign the deal, and that really tells you about the tensions that are still there behind this very important diplomatic breakthrough. in istanbul, the biggest diplomatic breakthrough in russia's war against ukraine, the deal to ease russia's strangle hold on ukraine and get its grain, one-fifth of the world's supply to market. >> it will bring relief for developing countries on the edge of bankruptcy and the most vulnerable pe

nic robertson is joining us there from jeddah. so they are waiting obviously highly an takes pay thing this arrival. what is the sense there ahead of this meeting, one that clearly the saudis wanted not only to have but to have images for the world to see, really legitimizing the regime? >> reporter: yeah, there is a real sense here that this is a moment for the saudis to have to get through because they know the focus and international attention that will be on president biden casting them as a pariah for the murder of jamal khashoggi. they recognize that. but they really feel that this is a moment to sort of punch through that situation. they are very keen to have face-to-face with president biden. they believe the very fact that president biden is coming here kind of resets the relationship so that they can get to the things that they want to get to which are all the sort of economic development investment opportunities that they really see opening up in saudi arabia, the vision 2030 of the crown prince. there is a lot that goe

our editor nic robertson is in kyiv this morning.tary of state tony blinken, to get it on a plan b, because the tommibombing of thi port after this critical agreement, they need another strategy. what more are you learning? >> reporter: yeah, plan b is still in play. i was speaking with the infrastructure minister here in kyiv just a couple of hours ago. he was the one in istanbul that signed the deal for ukraine with the u.n. to get the exports going from the ports. but he said absolutely, we're still committed to that plan b, putting grain on train and trucks, even using barges on the liver danube. nothing matters as much as using the ports. he still hopes that the deal with the u.n. can work. they're committed to it. he has sent officials to istanbul to oversee how the u.n. deal works and inspection of vessels as they come and go, in and out of the black sea. so i asked him about the russian strikes. he said he thought that was just a power play by russia. but there are other things that russia has been doing as well that are trou

. >> let's bring in cnn international diplomatic editor nic robertson, in mykolaiv. of the morning, your team heard the explosions, caused by the strikes. can you give me a sense of what is happening on the ground and to the people there? >> reporter: yeah, you could feel those explosions. the last of the explosions which came at 5:00 a.m. in the morning, series of very heavy definitions rattled the windows on this building. people we talked to out on the streets here around the impact sites told us it is the worst of the bombing as far as they can tell since the conflict began. you know, there has been a mixture of emotions, some people we talked to have told us, look, i just feel that i can't stay here any longer. we found the people that were telling us that were right next it a residential building, a big mansion house, actually, and quite a fancy neighborhood in this city. and they were telling us that they felt they were going to have to leave. one gentleman, the roof had been ripped off of his house. but the neighbor had become trapped in the basement with his

nic robertson is in the ukrainian capital of kyiv tonight.fficials questioning their leadership and accusing their subordinates of treason for collaborating with russia. what are you learning about this shakeup? >> reporter: yeah, he says that 651 cases are in play right now of treason and collaboration with russia. there are 60 staff, both of these two departments, who are in russian-occupied areas of the country that haven't come back. that's what's at the root of president zelenskyy's concerns here. interestingly, he was working outside of the constitution. he cannot directly call for these suspensions. it's only parliament that can remove or appoint people to the prosecutor general and the chief of the security services. so what president zelenskyy did today was call on parliament to suspend the head of the security services. this is sort of no surprise that he is being moved out. he's a long-time political ally of the president, a childhood friend, didn't have a security background. the security services did a bad job in the south of the