we weren t preparing for this, said this doctor. now we re doing only urgent surgeries. one operation ends, and another begins. this time, a soldier wounded on the front line. even here, glass doors must be taped to minimize shattering in case of bombing. sandbags cover the windows. the director of this hospital says thanks to help from abroad, they do not lack for medicine or equipment. what they desperately need is neurosurgeons. that in a war where intense bombardment is the norm. these men are recovering in a special unit specializing in treating concussions sustained in artillery bombardments. when shelling is just steps away, the damage is invisible, but it s there. they suffer from intense headaches, nausea, dizziness,
now we re doing only urgent surgeries. one operation ends and another begins. this time a soldier wounded on the front line. even here glass doors must be taped to minimize shattering in case of bombing. sand bags cover the windows. the director of this hospital says thanks to help from abroad, they do not lack for medicine or equipment. what they desperately need is neurosurgeons. that in a war wherein tense bombardment is the norm. these men are recovering in a special unit specializing in treating concussions sustained in artillery bombardments. when schilling is just steps away, the damage is invisible but it s there. they suffer from intense headaches, nausea, dizziness and
you re also seeing the ukrainians start to dig in, occupy more defense eve positions, and today we see the current fight, which is essentially along this front. when you look here from luhansk over to izyum, this is the front line, the trace of the battle. and if you were there today, you would see artillery bombardments coming in from the russians, who are using indirect fires, missile strikes, to try to weaken the ukrainian forces. separately, you re seeing counterbattery trying to counter the russians as well. the question will be in the coming days and weeks, is what do the russians try to do? one course of action which we kind of think they re already trying to do is move in, encircle ukrainian military units at times, and try to close them off. separately, from donetsk down here, you ll see them trying to advance north. and from izyum, advancing to the southeast. they will try to bring those together to try to seal off the ukrainian military. it s a race right now, who can get tr
back from mariupol, to donetsk. so they are creating a delay in action, creating more time for the ukrainian military to get here in the donbas region. clint, what exactly is indirect fires m. indirect fires, when we talk about them, you ll hear people talk about russian fires. we re talking about artillery, missiles, and aircraft, essentially, air strikes. they ll use a combination of those three to very devastating effects. this is, one, to suppress ukrainian military. two, to try to atrite them over time. most ukrainian casualties have been due to these indirect fires. and three, whenever you have artillery bombardments, missile bombardments to come in, it allows armor formations to advance, especially on roads when it s a muddy season in the east and they can t get into those farmlands and open areas, it s a way for them to advance armor, because the ukrainian military is pinned down. clint watts, thank you so much for being with us. still ahead, exclusive new
caused civilian loss of life instead. everybody here is nervous, is aware of the risk. i spoke to people over the weekend who came into the city from other places, other countries like poland. a mother brought her sons over the border for a few days to see their dad who had to stay behind. her sons were nervous, she had reassured them that this part of the country was safe. she, like everybody else, now knows they are not safe anywhere in ukraine. the russian air strikes can hit at any time. earlier i spoke to the military analyst, justin crump, from the risk advisory company, sibylline. he said russia is intensifying its bombardments across the country, to create better conditions for the assault on the east. they have been doing this with increasing intensity over the last couple of weeks, we ve seen artillery bombardments increase, airpower increase, and as it was covered in the report, ukraine has had to delay in some