russians, the russian forces. they don t teach their people like we teach our soldiers how to integrate all the means of applying military pressure, they don t integrate tanks, artillery, infantry, intelligence into one coherent mass in order to overcome enemy positions. they piecemeal everything that they do, and that s been demonstrated particularly around kyiv but also in the east. in addition to that, they don t have an nco corp that s worth anything, they re not allowed to make decisions, and indeed there s middle level managers, majors, colonels, lieutenant colonels, they can t make decisions either and as a result they have to bring generals up to the front lines to change orders and make decisions which is one reason why they ve lost so many general officers. son wht so many general officers
keeping up its grueling offeoff offensive. as ben wedeman reports from inside the embattled city, ukrainians are fighting tooth and nail to keep it. interio interior. reporter: in the trenches, a mortar crew is at work, hoping to repel russian forces on the verge of encircling the city. drone footage shows the impact of their rounds on enemy positions. the refrain among these troops, we need more. the world speaks about dance, dance, dance. yes, of course dance is more powerful for our time, i feel. but now is 21st century. we need not only dance, we need retaliation. reporter: around bakhmut slowly and steadily, the russians are gaining ground.
verge of encircling the city. drone footage shows the impact of their rounds on enemy positions. the refrain among these troops, we need more. now is 21st century. we need not only tents. reporter: around bakhmut slowly and steadily, the russians are gaining ground. thursday yevgeny progozhin, head of the wagner group, claimed his troops and only his troops took the village of cla shiv ca just south of the city. in a dugout, this officer explains wagner s tactics.
germany s supply advanced tanks in addition to german made ones. allies worry about a major russian offensive in the spring and as russian forces continue to circle the city of bakhmut in eastern ukraine. ben wedeman has more on that. reporter: in the trenches outside bakhmut, a mortar crew is at work. hoping to repel russian forces on the verge of encircling the city. [ speaking non-english ] reporter: drone footage shows the impact of their rounds on enemy positions. the refrain among these troops, we need more. yes, of course. it s more powerful for our time in the field. but now it s 21st century. we need not only tanks. we need aviation. reporter: around bakhmut
fortunately because they re in a war they re not holding session, but unfortunately one person was killed in a blast. in fact, in another town to the south of here, there were about a dozen missiles striking overnight. much talk about the fear of the western allies to come up with some sort of agreement to provide ukraine with these tanks that are so desperately needed. yesterday we were in the embattled city of bakhmut, and we saw there ukrainians are fighting hard, trying to stop the russians from encircling that city. in trenches outside bakhmut, mortar crews are at work. ground footage shows the impact of their rounds on enemy