thank you, natasha. and now, russia has claimed that it has thwarted what is a large ukrainian defensive there in donesk. moscow says that the ukrainian forces tried and failed to push through the area with armored tanks, but the ukrainians say they have no information on the event, but in a new video circulated on social video, ukrainian soldiers are urging everyone to stay quiet say the soldiers, and you can see that shhh there. fred pleitgen is there. and so the russians are making sounds that some kind of ukrainian effort has begun, and is this or could it be the counter offensive? well, it is the very
we are seeing, sara, and this is what the ukrainian officials are saying is that along the front line, the russians are on the back foot, and looking at bakhmut where they say they have won the territory back, the russians are saying the same thing. and then looking at the anti-putin fighters, the russians cannot come to term with that as well. and so, it is coming to the shelling as well right now. so the russians are building up momentum, and saying that the counteroffensive is imminent, and whether or not this is the big push, it is difficult to say. the soldiers there is giving you a sense that something big is about to happen. fred pleitgen, thank you very much. john? sara, let me give you the sense of the area that fred is talking about, because the reports of the attacks that the ukrainians are talking about is the southern region here from donesk here, and the ukrainians are saying they are trying to
the last one which impacted power grid in and around kyiv region and air radio sense in the last couple of dais and the people who live there every time they hear that, they are wondering when the next one could be especially considering we ve had multiple ones over the past month nearly each week but out in the east it s a much different story, that s with fighting continues to be very intense especially in the town of bakmut in the donesk region and russian forces are trying to surround the town and capture it. russia is using a lot of resources to take a town that really only offers advantages. if bakmut were to fall, they could use launching pad to strike on larger urban areas to the north, however, ukrainian forces on the font lines say they are digging in for the long haul. the enemy intensified activities including electronic
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we don t know how they are. as the battle for severodonetsk continues, on the streets, ukrainian police evacuate stranded residents. if russia can take this city, it will have a path into the donbas. if the ukrainians can stop them, they will win a battle that could determine the outcome of this war. joe inwood, bbc news, kyiv. some breaking news and there is a number of explosions that have struck the ukrainian capital of kyiv. it has not been spared as russian concentrates attacks in the eastern regions of luhansk and donesk. we will bring you more details as they come to hand. mercedes benz is recalling nearly a million