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LOCATION/STORY: UkraineWarTuePKG: For a second time in two days the same skyscraper in Moscow was hit by a drone. Russia says it came from Ukraine (Justin Finch reports from DC)
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IAN PANNELL | ABC NEWS CHIEF FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
JUSTIN FINCH | ABC NEWS, WASHINGTON
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NOW TO THE LATEST ON RUSSIA'S WAR IN UKRAINE.
THE KREMLIN IS VOWING TO ESCALATE ITS ASSAULTS, AFTER A MOSCOW SKYSCRAPER HOUSING RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT OFFICES WAS HIT BY A DRONE OVERNIGHT FOR THE SECOND TIME IN AS MANY DAYS.
RUSSIAN MILITARY LEADERS BLAMING UKRAINE FOR THAT ATTACK -- BUT, OFFICIALLY, UKRAINE, HAS NOT CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY. PRESIDENT PUTIN'S ARMY NOT PAUSING ITS ASSAULT ON UKRAINE--LAUNCHING DRONE STRIKES OF ITS OWN ON CIVILIANS IN THE HEART OF UKRAINE'S SECOND-LARGEST CITY.
A-B-C'S JUSTIN FINCH COVERING THE DETAILS FROM WASHINGTON.
Justin Finch:
THOUGH UKRAINIAN OFFICIALS DID NOT IMMEDIATELY TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE DRONE STRIKES ON THAT MOSCOW HIGH-RISE, A TOP ADVISER TO UKRAINE'S PRESIDENT IS SAYING THE RUSSIAN CAPITAL IS NOW FEELING THE EFFECTS OF THIS WAR.
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DEVASTATION OVERNIGHT IN KHARKIV...
UKRAINE'S SECOND LARGEST CITY REELING AFTER RUSSIAN DRONES BLASTED THE CITY CENTER, AND PUMMELED TWO FLOORS OF AN EMPTY COLLEGE DORMITORY -- SPARKING FIRES.
OFFICIALS IN KHARKIV ALSO REPORTING A NEARBY SPORTS COMPLEX WAS HIT -- INJURING A SECURITY GUARD.
AND IN PRESIDENT ZELEKNSKYY'S HOMETOWN, AN EARLIER RUSSIAN MISSILE ATTACK RAVAGED AN APARTMENT BUILDING -- KILLING AT LEAST SIX
MEANTIME, UKRAINE'S MILITARY ADVANCING ON RUSSIAN FORCES IN BAKHMUT.
A-B-C'S IAN PANNELL IN UKRAINE.
Ian Pannell, ABC News Chief Foreign Correspondent: "It really does appear that we are now in a new phase of this war -- not just a battle on the land inside Ukraine but also an escalating aerial conflict that's now hitting right in the heart of Russia."
FOR THE FOURTH TIME IN JUST OVER A WEEK, AND THE SECOND CONSECUTIVE NIGHT --THE MOSCOW-AREA COMING UNDER DRONE ATTACKS.
DRONES PIERCING THIS HIGH-RISE BUILDING -- WHICH HOUSES SEVERAL RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT AGENCIES -- PROVIDING FURTHER EVIDENCE THAT VLADIMIR PUTIN'S WAR WILL NOT ONLY BE FOUGHT ON UKRAINIAN SOIL.
[SOUNDS OF WOMAN SPEAKING RUSSIAN]
THIS WOMAN CALLING THE BACK-TO-BACK ATTACK 'UNEXPECTED.'
AUTHORITIES SAY THEY WERE ABLE TO TAKE DOWN THE DRONES, BUT TWO CRASHED INTO THE SKYSCRAPER.
NO INJURIES REPORTED -- THE KREMLIN IS ACCUSING KYIV OF THE STRIKES.
Justin Finch:
THOUGH UKRAINE HAS BEEN TIGHT-LIPPED ABOUT THE DRONE STRIKES INSIDE RUSSIA, ONE OF PRESIDENT ZELENSKYY'S ADVISERS IS WEIGHING IN, SAYING -- 'MOSCOW IS RAPIDLY GETTING USED TO A FULL-FLEDGED WAR,' AND IS WARNING OF MORE ATTACKS AND CONFLICT TO COME.
JUSTIN FINCH, A-B-C NEWS WASHINGTON.
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