1 00:00:01,433 --> 00:00:03,100 NICK SCHIFRIN: Today, the death toll from a Russian strike in 2 00:00:03,100 --> 00:00:06,633 the Ukrainian city of Dnipro rose to 40, with dozens still missing. 3 00:00:06,633 --> 00:00:11,266 It was one of the deadliest single incidents of the war and comes at the beginning of a pivotal 4 00:00:11,266 --> 00:00:16,266 week for Western efforts to provide Ukraine heavy weapons, including tanks. Rescue efforts in 5 00:00:18,266 --> 00:00:21,800 Dnipro continue, but officials acknowledge that there is little hope of finding anyone alive. 6 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:28,633 In the residential building that is torn in two, death is still far too easy to find. 7 00:00:30,633 --> 00:00:34,700 Today, emergency workers hoped to rescue the injured. So far, they have only needed body bags. 8 00:00:36,166 --> 00:00:39,733 Across the street, a makeshift memorial. In a war that has 9 00:00:39,733 --> 00:00:43,766 already caused so much destruction and stolen even the most innocent, 10 00:00:43,766 --> 00:00:48,733 neighbors wonder why they survived and can only hope their prayers protect the dead. 11 00:00:50,733 --> 00:00:53,433 WOMAN (through translator): All of us could be in that place, people, children. 12 00:00:53,433 --> 00:00:58,233 NICK SCHIFRIN: Saturday's strike buried hundreds of people under the 13 00:00:58,233 --> 00:01:01,666 rubble. The Russian missile hit in the middle of a residential neighborhood, 14 00:01:01,666 --> 00:01:06,600 one of Russia's deadliest attacks on civilians in nearly 11 months of war. 15 00:01:08,533 --> 00:01:11,500 It struck at night, the massive apartment complex it hit obliterated, 16 00:01:11,500 --> 00:01:15,800 the pain of a mother who watched her son die unspeakable. 17 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:20,800 WOMAN (through translator): What did you kill him for? What did you do to my son? May you be 18 00:01:22,933 --> 00:01:26,633 damned for the whole of your lives by everybody, by me personally and by all the mothers' tears. 19 00:01:28,966 --> 00:01:31,833 NICK SCHIFRIN: The attack coincided with the Orthodox new year celebrated by both Ukrainians 20 00:01:31,833 --> 00:01:36,833 and Russians. Online, Ukrainians post videos of families inside the apartment building before 21 00:01:38,500 --> 00:01:42,066 and the same kitchen after it was ripped open. 22 00:01:42,066 --> 00:01:47,033 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called it terrorism and said Ukraine would not lose hope. 23 00:01:49,433 --> 00:01:51,433 VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY, Ukrainian President (through translator): We fighting for every person. The 24 00:01:51,433 --> 00:01:55,933 rescue operation will last as long as there is even the slightest chance to save lives. 25 00:01:55,933 --> 00:01:59,000 NICK SCHIFRIN: And he used the attack to once again criticize 26 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:01,733 Russians for not criticizing the war enough. 27 00:02:01,733 --> 00:02:06,400 VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY (through translator): I want to say to all those in Russia and from Russia, 28 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:09,100 your cowardly silence, your attempt to wait out 29 00:02:09,100 --> 00:02:13,200 what is happening will only end with the same terrorists coming for you one day. 30 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:16,666 NICK SCHIFRIN: Today, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said 31 00:02:16,666 --> 00:02:19,300 the building was actually struck by a Ukrainian missile. 32 00:02:19,300 --> 00:02:21,200 DMITRY PESKOV, Spokesman for Vladimir Putin (through translator): 33 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:25,433 The Russian armed forces do not strike neither residential buildings nor the 34 00:02:25,433 --> 00:02:29,733 sites of civilian infrastructure. The strikes are aimed at military targets. 35 00:02:29,733 --> 00:02:34,733 NICK SCHIFRIN: To strengthen its military, Ukraine has asked for Western tanks to upgrade 36 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:40,500 its mostly Soviet era armor. And now, for the first time, the West will provide them. 37 00:02:42,966 --> 00:02:45,900 This weekend, the United Kingdom announced it will send 14 Challenger 2 tanks. Today, in Parliament, 38 00:02:47,900 --> 00:02:51,600 British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said the tanks would help Ukraine achieve -- quote -- 39 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:56,566 "victory." And he urged Germany to send its tanks, the Leopard 2, which Ukraine has prioritized. 40 00:02:59,066 --> 00:03:01,633 BEN WALLACE, British Defense Secretary: There's a debate in Germany at the moment about whether 41 00:03:01,633 --> 00:03:04,600 a tank is an offensive weapon or defensive weapon. Well, it depends on what you're using it for. If 42 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:09,333 you're using it to defend your country, I would wager that it is a defensive weapon system. 43 00:03:09,333 --> 00:03:11,466 GEN. PHILIP BREEDLOVE (RET.), Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander: They have better battlefield 44 00:03:11,466 --> 00:03:16,133 mobility. They bring more firepower and, most importantly, they bring much more sophisticated 45 00:03:18,300 --> 00:03:23,300 targeting capabilities, allowing them to shoot and kill first on the battlefield. 46 00:03:24,766 --> 00:03:27,600 NICK SCHIFRIN: Retired General Philip Breedlove is the former 47 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:31,966 supreme allied commander of NATO and the U.S.' top European commander. 48 00:03:31,966 --> 00:03:36,966 Tactically, how much of a difference can 14 British tanks really make to the Ukrainian army? 49 00:03:38,533 --> 00:03:42,033 GEN. PHILIP BREEDLOVE: Tactically, very little. But in breaking that 50 00:03:42,033 --> 00:03:47,033 policy hold on this kind of equipment, we hope now that nations will begin to 51 00:03:48,966 --> 00:03:52,266 supply more sufficient numbers that will then have a big effect on the battlefield. 52 00:03:53,700 --> 00:03:57,200 NICK SCHIFRIN: Poland has promised to send its Leopards, 53 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:00,233 and Finland could follow if Germany gives approval. 54 00:04:00,233 --> 00:04:03,733 Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki: 55 00:04:03,733 --> 00:04:07,533 MATEUSZ MORAWIECKI, Polish Prime Minister: The battle for our freedom, our future is raging 56 00:04:07,533 --> 00:04:12,533 as we speak. And if we have been investing for years in heavy war equipment, in tanks, 57 00:04:14,566 --> 00:04:19,400 they must not be left to rest in storehouses, but be placed in the hands of Europe's defenders. 58 00:04:21,300 --> 00:04:25,566 NICK SCHIFRIN: Ukraine urges the U.S. to follow with its M1A1 Abrams tanks. 59 00:04:27,466 --> 00:04:30,600 And Breedlove and others urge the U.S. to go further and send longer-range 60 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:34,833 systems the administration has so far blocked, for fear of escalating the war. 61 00:04:34,833 --> 00:04:37,766 Do you think Washington should be afraid of escalation? 62 00:04:37,766 --> 00:04:42,766 GEN. PHILIP BREEDLOVE: Well, to say that we shouldn't consider it and think about 63 00:04:43,933 --> 00:04:47,766 it would be foolish, but to be deterred by it, 64 00:04:49,733 --> 00:04:52,800 which I believe we are, in a large way deterred by this fear, that is a problem. 65 00:04:54,700 --> 00:04:58,933 The bottom line is, right now, speed is of the essence. 66 00:04:58,933 --> 00:05:02,733 NICK SCHIFRIN: But, right now, there's little Ukraine can do to prevent Russian 67 00:05:02,733 --> 00:05:07,733 strikes on civilians. And so Ukrainians fear they face more days like today.