issued but has since been withdrawn. the war in ukraine has seen a major development, with ukrainian forces making gains in the east of the country. president vladimir zelenskyy has welcomed russia s withdrawal from key areas after ukrainian counter offensive. a movement of our soldiers are different directions of the front continues. to date, as part of active action since the beginning of september, about 2000 kilometers of our territory have already been liberated. the russian army in these days has demonstrated the best we can, do showing its back, and of course, it s a good decision for them to run. there is no place for the occupier in ukraine, and there never will be one. russia has ordered its troops to withdraw from two frontline positions in eastern ukraine the retreat marked the most significant gain for the military since they defeated a
positions have been reported. joining me now to discuss is retired army major mike lyons. welcome back. let me start with this war on infrastructure. the russians are going of the railway lines because that s how the weapons come in. the ukrainians blew up this pontoon bridge. pontoon brims are infrastructure used in the offense as russia tries to cross over. so they built two temporary bridges, took a couple of hours to do. normally when you do that, you fire artillery, you create fog. it took them two hours to do that. so the ukraine government is watching this happen on satellites. let them build the bridge and let them bring equipment across. maybe two to three battalions across. the ukrainian military watches it all the way. the units down here, they bunch up, they don t spread out, they re not covered. as soon as they bring the last vehicle over, the ukraine trap all the russian forces on this side and destroy them. let s talk about the attack
video showing tanks leaving their frontline positions. but that video and the exact location of those troops hasn t yet been verified. the ukrainian foreign ministry is taking all of this with grain of salt. basically saying we will believe it when we see it remember, there is not only more than 100,000 russian troops along ukraine s border. domestically in russia but also in neighboring belarus you have 30,000 troops. all of this coming as ukraine s president zelensky rally the troops and civilians here amid a very frightening time for ukrainian people. thieves threats of russia invading their country this could be an opportunity for deescalation both sides to step back from the brink. president putin is the only individual in the world right now who knows whether or not russia will invade ukraine. he is going to meet today with the german chancellor who was actually here in kyiv yesterday drying to hammer out some sort of diplomacy at the last minute. but, again, we don t know if
cbs holly williams travels with ukrianian troops, and as soon as they approached the area, there was heavy artillery fire just a few hundred yards away. reporter: today, as we approached the front line, there was heavy artillery fire. we estimate just a few hundred yards away. those actually sound quite close now. and there have been maybe eight or nine at this point. these ukrianian soldiers told us it was russian-backed separatists firing on their frontline positions. ukraine s been fighting a war against russian-backed separatists for nearly eight years. these muddy trerchs now carve up this country. the ukrianian military on one side, armed by the u.s., and fighters in breakaway regions now recognized by russia on the other. in recent days, there s been an escalation in the attacks, some
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