nick paton walsh is in southern ukraine where russian forces seem to be fleeing in a rush. some of the images you will see in his report are quite graphic. we don t leave our own behind, the russian war slogan you hear less these days, especially along the road south along the dnipro river where the russians seem to be collapsing since the weekend on yet a third front. the pace of ukraine s advance you can feel on the road here and it is hour by hour they move forward this road lined with russian bodies abandoned russian positions. it s clear people left here in a hurry. in just the last three days they ve swept along the west bank of the river through russian positions, the shallow being shabby foxholes of an army with almost nothing at hand. even what little they had was abandoned, especially this tank,
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their lives. they are innered to this fighting. yesterday, jim, i asked the president whether he was worried there would be a lack of support as this war grinds on. here is what he had to say. translator: we need to be clearly aware that as soon as the world becomes tired of this war that is going to be a great threat to the whole world and annihilating ukraine, so we are grateful to any kind of assistance we need. reporter: overnight more assistance appears to be coming and they re grateful for that here. this front line has stayed relatively static for many weeks now, jim, since you were in ukraine. there was a dramatic scene around kyiv. now it is a relentless bombardment in east and the south and the northeast, with static front lines, soldiers in foxholes, grinding it out, and, you know, this war is not showing any signs of stopping
look. look all around you. impossible to know who is in control of this area. with a fight happening just on the other side of the hill. the smell of corpses among the pines. under every foot step, the threat of mines. everywhere you look, foxholes, ammunition boxes, clearly a significant russian base here. they are calling it a little town, using this forest as cover. but clearly hit really hard. the tomb of the unknown russian soldiers, this says. ghoulish relics where it once buzzed with the task of besieging a city. nick paton walsh, cnn, ukraine. thanks to nick paton walsh for that. coming up, an in-depth conversation about george floyd.
aircraft warning device up high to tell russian jets it was friendly. this is their problem. each time they move forward. here they are in what was once a russian position, and look all around you. impossible to know who s really in control of this area with a fight happening just on the other side of the hill. the smell of corpses among the pines. under every footstep the threat of mines. everywhere you look, foxholes, ammunition boxes, clearly a significant russian base here. they re calling it a little town, using this forest as cover. but clearly hit really hard. the two of the unknown russian soldiers, this says. ghoulish relics here where it once buzzed with the brutish clumsy task of besieging the city. smoldering in the trees here but swallowed in their tall silence. and our thanks to nick paten