Ukraine Just Launched Its Biggest Attack of the War

Olen Shannon Maldonado, käsintehtyjä artesaanitua teitä myyvän jauiilahjakaupan perustaja. Valitsin Shopify, koska alustoja testa testani totesin sen ehdottomasti yhdeksi helpokäyttöisimmistä alustoista. Minulla oli tärkeää pohtia kehittymistämme tulevaisuudessa. Kaikki myyntiin tarvittavat työkaluut, kuten varaston suunnittelu ovat kätevästi dashboardissa. Aloita ilmainen kokeilu Shopify piste komsi vustolla. Its Monday, August 17. Hear about that far away front is one thing, drone's blowing up your local warehouses is another. Start here. Ukraine launches its biggest attack on Russian soil so far. As this giant warehouse near Moscow was ablaze, just this massive clouds of smoke. While they're trying to take out Russia's version of Amazon and why it still might be too late, historic flooding turns deadly in Indiana, for talking about seven consecutive days of water having to move out of a region. Meanwhile a hurricane has swung past the big island of O-Y, how El Nino could continue to affect the entire country, and freshmen are heading to campus along with their interior designers. We built a wall one time to disguise some pipes on the wall. Inside the booming industry of dorm decor. ABC News, this is Stark Hear. I'm Brad Milky. By all accounts, the Ukraine war should have ended long ago. Once Russia invaded, many predicted it would just have too much firepower for anything other than inevitable victory, but there were two major things that those predictions might not have anticipated. First, there was the resilience and tenacity of the Ukrainian people. Rather than saying the Russians are just too strong for us, Ukrainian troops rushed to the front when they fell more rushed to replace them. However, that type of resistance can only last so long, right? It's just a numbers game. Eventually the thinking was, well, if Russia can keep supplying troops, Ukraine has to buckle, but then can be the other big surprise. Not a change in troops necessarily, but a change in how to fight this war itself. Drones. Ukraine has revolutionized how to use drones in modern warfare. In this weekend, it launched the biggest attack of any point of this conflict. ABC's Foreign Correspondent Patrick Reval has reported out of Russia and out of Ukraine for years now. Patrick, what happened in this attack? Hey, Brad. This was a huge drone attack by Ukraine. According to Russian authorities, involving over 800 drones with around 600 of them targeting Moscow and the Moscow region. This is part of this growing campaign that Ukraine has been having more and more success with since really the spring. This attack was focused, again, interestingly on hitting these warehouses belonging to Russia's biggest e-commerce company, called Wildberries. In effect, it's Russia's Amazon. There was this very impressive image of this enormous fire as this giant warehouse near Moscow was ablaze just this massive clouds of smoke seen near the Russian capital. The reason Ukraine is targeting wildberries and these warehouse hubs is because it's trying to bring the war home to ordinary Russians. They've already reportedly hit seven out of the ten of the largest warehouses of this company. This is the equivalent of Amazon's biggest warehouses in the US all being hit. So it's reportedly caused billions of dollars of destruction of inventory. It's also disrupting small businesses because they rely on selling things through the and moving things through these warehouses. There's also part of the same campaign targeting Russia's oil and gas industry where we've seen these long-range drones that have been getting through and hitting Russia's oil refineries. The whole idea is to show that Vladimir Putin can't do anything to stop it. So we know that Russians are frustrated by this, that there is growing pessimism about the war because of these Ukrainian strikes. And clearly they are just going to grow and grow and they're being developed importantly by Ukraine. They're not using drones provided by the US anymore. They're using drones that they are developing themselves and are mass producing themselves on an extraordinary scale. Patrick, they're going all but these drones are flying all the way from Ukraine to Moscow that's like hundreds and hundreds of miles, right? Yeah, these are all traveling hundreds of miles. They're launched usually from fields in Ukraine. A lot of them kind of look like small aircraft. They're propeller powered, some of them. Now they can fly well over a thousand kilometers. They're hitting sometimes deep into Siberia with these. And Ukraine also has developed its own cruise missiles, which is also a remarkable achievement. It means that Russia is no longer the only one able to mount these long range attacks deep into the country. And clearly it is having an effect. The problem is do you believe that ultimately you can create enough dissatisfaction in Russia that you can persuade Vladimir Putin to end his war? That is the hope in Ukraine, that is the strategy, but it's still quite a long shot. I was going to say with this sort of new drone warfare, I mean, because again, relatively cheap compared to missiles, right? So if you can just launch enough of these, does Ukraine somehow get to equal footing in this war? Are they still on the defensive or how would you characterize it? I think they are still ultimately on the defensive, but of course it's not just the long range drones. They've also developed these remarkable medium range drones, drones on the front line. And so they're able to attack Russian logistics. They've destroyed hundreds, perhaps thousands of supply vehicles in the last couple of months that have been able to basically besiege Crimea with drones. It has really helped level the battlefield. On the other hand, we see worrying developments for Ukraine, also in terms of airstrikes from Russia, because Russia recently has been able to basically exhaust Ukraine's air defense missiles supplies. Because while Ukraine has been able to rapidly develop its own interceptors for Russian drones, you know we've been talking about these huge waves of Russian drones all summer and all year. But what we see now is that because Ukraine is reliant entirely on the U.S. for providing these missiles to shoot down Russian ballistic missiles, it's no longer able to shoot them down basically because it has run out of them, because these missiles were always in quite short supply. They were like holding the defenses in the sky for so long, but now their defenses are gone or depleted. It pleases. One of the key reasons for that is the war in Iran, because the U.S. is burning through these missiles at a very high rate. And now believes that it doesn't have enough stocks itself. European countries also are pretty much out. They believe they don't have enough left. If they give any more, they won't be able to defend themselves. And so what we're seeing now is for the first time, Russian ballistic missiles are getting through and Ukraine on some nights has been unable to shoot down any of them, wow, for the first time. And so we've seen these very powerful attacks. Russia knows that Ukraine is short and so has switched to producing more of these missiles and it's producing far more of these missiles than anyone really is able to produce interceptors for at the moment. And so the big worry is that as we go into the winter, we're going to see Russia again try and knock out Ukraine's power system and the people are going to freeze as they did last year. And that this year it could be even worse because they have fewer defenses than before. Really interesting how this war has kind of just continued to shift back and forth. It was all about missiles at first, but then that was a stalemate, so it became all about drones. Now, because these interceptors have run out for Ukraine, you're going to see this perhaps turn back into a primarily a missile war, a Patrick Reval. Thank you so much. Thanks, bud. Next up on Start here, everyone was looking to a hurricane in Hawaii, but the storm related deaths this weekend were happening in the Midwest. Floods devastate Indiana after the break. This show is sponsored by NetSuite. As businesses increasingly move toward an AI-centric world, they say that every day you delay, you actually fall two days behind. But how do you keep up? Competition's only moving faster. Luckily, there's NetSuite next. You've heard me talk about NetSuite before. 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But over the course of the next seven days, now rivers are overflowing and inundation and saturation is a big part of what is happening in the community. I mean, if you're looking at between Tuesday and Thursday, those two days alone got 12 inches of rain in the area. And some of these rivers that we're talking about have never seen overflow like they've seen since 1913, 25 feet, is where we're talking about some of these rivers cresting. So pretty incredible. Unfortunately, we're talking about water rescues and lives lost. "Overwhelming. Like you had a control, devastating." We've lived here over 45 years, and we've never seen anything like this ever. It is certainly a sad and devastating situation through the area. We do ask for folks to continue to stay off our roadways. That are closed. Stay home if you can today. Let us continue this operation. Let us get things cleaned up. We continue onward for the next several days to weeks with cleanup efforts. Well, and so then that kind of brings up the idea of like water can just keep accumulating, right? You know, water moves, it might not move enough to accommodate whatever we've been seeing here. And if that's true, what does that mean for the days ahead? Well, I mean, it's all about at this point, hydrology, too. So how fast can some of this water move out of the area? We have creeks and tributaries and different ways to move the water through rivers, of course. But if we can't get the water out, just based on the amount of rain that is coming down in the hurry, which we saw, at times there was two to three inches of rain per hour. That's just a lot of rain in a short amount of time. So there's just not a lot. Some of our infrastructure can do when we're talking about seven consecutive days of water having to move out of a region. And then is there a sense as to why it's gotten so it's just like this is a freak storm that happens in this area or is this part of a larger system we should know about? This is the time of year that you would get storms. Unfortunately, it is also the time of year where the jet stream just isn't doing a whole lot. In winter, we get these nice big jet streams moving down, pushing away storms. But during these summer months, it's just kind of stagnant. And this is why we get the heat domes and stuff like that, like stuff just moves slower. Yes. So and then all the heat's coming up from the south. So it's helping to fuel a lot of these storms. And it's been extremely hot over the last several days that long duration heat wave has not helped. So I mean, this is stagnant system, not moving very fast or out of the area very easily. And unfortunately, it was seven days in a row of that. Well, and last question, moving far away from Indiana, but just over the weekend in Hawaii, we thought we might even see a hurricane make direct impact on Hawaii. This hurricane Lala last night at six o'clock, it said hurricane Lala this morning is tropical storm Lala. That storm weakened, but nonetheless proved to be exactly what we said it would be. This was a very strong wind event. Now, luckily, it looks like they kind of narrowly avoided the worst, but does that speak to again, we hear about broader weather patterns like El Nino. How much is that playing a role in hurricane season? You know, when we get into El Nino, it's, you know, water temperatures are rising. This is one of the strongest El Nino's that we've ever recorded, where our temperatures are hotter than we've seen at the equator right off the coast of Peru. What that ends up doing is it creates actually a really quiet for the most part Atlantic hurricane season. However, in the Pacific Ocean, it creates an opportunity for hurricanes to develop. So if Hawaii were to see a hurricane, likely to be in an El Nino season. So it's not out of the question that we saw what we saw here over the course of last several days, moving through Hawaii, category one hurricane. It didn't make a landfill. I did not cross the island, however, it's close enough that still considering all of the ramifications of heavy amounts of rain, coastal beach flooding and erosion, damaging wind, but what will now experience over the next couple days as this system is weakened and moved its way out of the region is the chance for mudslides and debris flows coming off these big, steep hillsides. You can just imagine there's a lot of saturation. The ground is very loose and soft. So we hope we don't see any mudslides or landslides, but the chance still remains even as that system exits. That is really helpful to know about how these patterns like El Nino, because we've been hearing about the idea of El Nino for months, how that kind of starts playing an impact as the year goes on. Leslie Lopez, our meteorologist. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, one more quick break. When we come back, what are you saying? That my milk crate cabinets in college wouldn't hack it anymore? One last thing is next. When Shopeyfai was the main character, she was the first one to join the team. That's how it all started and we were able to get into Shopeyfai. At the end of the day, Shopeyfai became the first one to join the team. Shopeyfai was the first one to join the team. We were able to get into Shopeyfai, and we were able to get into Shopeyfai. We were able to get into Shopeyfai. It's that time of year, fall semester at many American colleges is about to get underway, which means today thousands and thousands of freshmen are reporting for orientation. If you've been to college, you can picture this, right? You meet all the other new kids, you learn what restaurants have student discounts, and then you head back to your dorm, complete with two twin beds, two sparse desks, maybe some posters and the mini fridge you found on the street. That is no longer what these bedrooms look like. Welcome to the golden age of dorm design. In recent weeks, college roommates have been calling each other, asking about more than who's going to bring a microwave. You know, they're hiring consultants together. My name is Kelly Mahoney. Like Kelly. I'm the co-founder of Dorm Essentials Co, and we basically do dorm design and dorm move in for students moving to the Boston area. Kelly found her new career when she helped her daughter move into a freshman dorm a few years ago down in Miami. They were flying from out of state, and Kelly realized like, shoot, we can't bring a rug with us, but we also just can't show up in order one. All the stores nearby are sold out, so she started this company that will source everything you need ahead of time, and will even set up your room for you. Mostly, they just wanted to look cute. They wanted to look clean and finished and organized, and I think they just wanted to think to look like some thought was put into it. This might involve comfy mattress toppers, some nice bedding, even consoles to create more shelving, and for students who have never cleaned up after themselves before, like little 18-year-old versions of Brad moving away for the first time, she'll even set up a whole cleaning kit. You get a thing of a wipe, a thing of like multipurpose cleaners, some swifters, some laundry detergent, a little thing of dish soap, and a water bottle like scrubber, and they're good to go. But if you think these Boston dorms sound a little extravagant, well, you haven't been to the South lately. Oh my gosh. Oh wow. Oh my god, it looks really good. This is an increasingly familiar video you will see on social media. Rumates being welcomed into their custom-made dorm rooms, built out by a professional interior designer. These young ladies are checking out their matching bedspreads. They're new cabinets. There are bamboo chairs, which match the foliage design on the bed skirts, which match the new headboards, which tie in with a brand new love seat. Who's providing these services? Meet Shelley Gates. Bye, have a y'all. Shelley is actually talking to me from a dorm room where she is putting the finishing touches for a student. Her firm, Mary Margaret Designs specializes in dorm rooms across the deep South. I'm actually at Florida State, installing, well, installing a room. and when someone like Shelley is working on your room, it is not unheard of for price tags to go up past $20,000. She has extensive consults with students and families. She has them to fill out forms about their aesthetics. If you don't like your cinder block walls, she'll find a way to hide them without running a foul of university regulations on painter wall paper. Last week I actually had wooden panels go in on the wall to hide the cinder block. I've built canopies, I've built a canopy last week across the wall, anything like that, that we just think out of the box, I cover the walls with fabric, just all kinds of things to make it unique and fun for the room. I did find myself thinking, is there a point where this is just too much? Shelley lived in a room at LSU that she's described as a prison cell, she turned out fine. Maybe this is just an extension of Bama Rush culture before you're even able to rush a sorority. Shelley even admits that on some campuses there is now a social pressure here, an expectation to have an Instagram worthy room. And yet she says, there is something beautiful about realizing your kids can't have it better than you did. Because of laptops and conference calls, students now have to spend more time than ever in their rooms. The background is going to be an extension of yourself, whether you want it to be or not. Why not turn that first home away from home into a more welcoming space, a nest with some feathers? The first year of college is really hard. There's a lot of living that happens in a dorm, breakups, new friends, late night study in. So you really want the girls to have a place that is a refuge and a retreat for them and a reflection of their personality. But whatever you think of this, Kelly Mahoney, our designer up in Boston said one thing remains constant in all design, less is more. Plus I keep wondering, if the college is all about learning, a dorm room is sometimes the first chance to teach yourself about interior design, to weigh storage against aesthetics, to consider how a rug really can tie a room together. When you only have a few square feet to your name, that might be the perfect time to do it yourself. And parents and students, the one tip I got from both these designers that I thought was a really good one, storage ottoman. So it's the ottoman you can push in underneath your bed, but then it becomes a step stool, it's a seat for visitors, and it's a cabinet all in one little poofy package. The other thing I don't see in any of these dorm rooms is television. So me and my roommate Rick, lugging a two foot deep television, like that would no longer need to take up space in the modern dorm room. More on all these stories on ABC News live, wherever you stream live news. I'm Brad Milky, see you tomorrow. [Music] The first time I've been in the community for two or three years, I've been in the community for a couple of years. I've been in the community for a couple of years, because I've been able to do some technical things, I've been able to do some research on the front and the front of the front, and I've been able to do some research on the front and the front. If the community has been in the community for a couple of years, it's the first time I've been in the community for a couple of years. and we are able to find a shop in the future. We are looking forward to the new shop in the future. We are Shannon Maldonado, the founder of the Artesan Institute of Technology. We are looking forward to the new shop in the future.