cities with the success that is frankly surprising everyone. in and out only are the russians coming at this city, capitol, kyiv, from many sides but also targeting the second biggest city in this country, kharkiv and we ve just seen and verified new video showing the stiff resistance from the ukrainians the russians are running into. a russian unit moves cautiously through the outskirts of kharkiv, their goal to seize a nearby military air field and property, they re progress makes them a target for ukrainian defenders hiding nearby. suddenly, an ambush. the russians fall back, their soldiers trying to shelter behind their hum-v type vehicles. their chaotic retreat seen here from another angle, one more example of the stiff resistance the russians are encountering from mobile ukrainian units who know the lay of the land. but the russians can t escape, they run into further trouble,
new cell because he was having problems with his first cellie. he finds old graffiti in his new cell. adds insult to injury. talibans kick as. it purses me off because i have seen the worst and been through the worst, you know, myself. and by these people. sobel says his unit was attacked by taliban fighters on their way back to base from a nearby village. at the time we had three hum-vs, i happened to be in the lead hum-v for that mission i was driving and ended up hitting the road side bomb at the bridge. about half of the vehicle disintegrated. we were pinned down for about three, 3 1/2 hours, i want to say, and we had black hawk helicopter end up medivacing me out. i had retinal detachment, ear drums were blown.
as sobel waits in a housing for a new assignment, he and the deputy discover something in common, combat in afghanistan and the possibility they could have crossed paths when sobel was badly injured in a road side bomb. we were going about 35 miles an hour. back half of the hum-v, we were going right over a bridge and you had a platoon that was medivac d out. we picked guys up at jbab and got flown over. it was in july of 08. it was probably my unit. that s crazy. that is so crazy. such a small world. it s always interesting to talk to somebody who was in the same area at the same time, especially someone who suffered injuries because that s primarily what i was doing when i was there, crewing med i vaked
here. like i said, we ve been out here for a while now but we look for whatever we can help out with. earlier today, we actually had a couple out here that had two infants with them. they had run out of water. they couldn t make formula. so luckily we were able to provide some water for them. so that was one of the really good ones. you are doing something like that. you always want to make sure that the kids are taken care of. we have had some people, we will put them in the hum v to warm up. we have some wool blankets and other things. anything we can provide we ll take care of them. reporter: have you ever seen anything like this before? not from the national guard perspective. i know they had the bad ice storm in 2011, about this same time of year. i know it was bad then too. yeah, this has been a real challenge. the ice makes it difficult no matter what.
specialist ty carter is penned down in a disabled hum v with three other troops. we all knew that sooner or later fire power is going to breach. reporter: then they realized the situation is worse than they thought. insurgents 30 meters in front of me. reporter: in the camp? yeah. reporter: sergeant justice gaigos trying to help a badly wounded specialist stephen mace. bullets were impacting all around him. he turned to fire and he was taken down. the bullets spun him around and he laid on the ground. reporter: but mace is still out there, still alive just out of reach. that s when i said sergeant larsson mace is arrive.