Here. Nastia is sailing ships, she says. Ukraine has been at war all the eight years shes known. I think it will be better without them, she says. It was uncomfortable having them here. Her parents nearby say fear meant their slept in their clothes all the six months. Its kind of strange here to see how almost unaffected so much of this town has been and how life seems to have slipped comfortably back into normal when the russians just picked up and left. And it gives you a feeling of how normality must still reign just a matter of six kilometers away from the border in russia. But normal is never coming back, particularly to here, the borderline itself. Russia retreated back over it but must now live with the hatred it has stirred. The fact that Ukrainian Forces are able to push right up to here, the beginning of the Border Buffer Zone with russia, russia is just a matter of kilometers in that direction, is yet another Calamity Moscow has imposed upon itself. Its opponent in this war
here. nastia is sailing ships, she says. ukraine has been at war all the eight years she s known. i think it will be better without them, she says. it was uncomfortable having them here. her parents nearby say fear meant their slept in their clothes all the six months. it s kind of strange here to see how almost unaffected so much of this town has been and how life seems to have slipped comfortably back into normal when the russians just picked up and left. and it gives you a feeling of how normality must still reign just a matter of six kilometers away from the border in russia. but normal is never coming back, particularly to here, the borderline itself. russia retreated back over it but must now live with the hatred it has stirred. the fact that ukrainian forces are able to push right up to here, the beginning of the border buffer zone with russia, russia is just a matter of kilometers in that direction, is yet another calamity moscow has imposed upon itself. its oppo
so heavily injured or damaged they ve entirely been disbanded. now, today ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy appearing publicly, seemingly unscathed from the car crash he was involved in yesterday, has been talking about the discovery of mass graves in the town of izium south of where i m standing. one of the key logistical points down from vof vovchansk you saw in that report. more grim discoveries as ukraine continues to press forward in its southern offensive. this all comes as two major adversaries of the west meet face to face. president xi of china and president putin of russia. promising to work together and support one another as cnn s ivan watson reports. this is the first time the two strongmen have met in person since the start of the invasion of ukraine by russia. and a lot has changed for both of them. reporter: two leaders united by their dislike of the u.s.