through the center of bakhmut. the forces leveraging the waterway to create what the british ministry of defense calls a kill zone. 30 miles from bakhmut, a local church is also being used as a refuge for civilians fleeing the violence 88-year-old yulia arrived here two weeks ago. i m all alone. i don t have anybody she weeps. her village near bakhmut now a hell scape it was getting scary, she says there was no light no heating, permanent shelling, nothing to eat. yulia has no idea where to go or how she will survive this is everything you packed? yes. she says volunteer owe lex sander says the center accepts 500 to 800 civilians a month to be bussed out to various parts of ukraine.
pulverized to cross the river that cuts the city center in two, setting up what the british ministry of defense has called a kill zone. this commander telling me that so-called kill zone has been incredibly effective so far. they ve claimed hundreds of lives of russian soldiers. overall there has been some criticism, especially by western experts of ukrainian decision to continue to fight given the casualty count and also given the perception that this city is of little strategic value to either side. i asked this ukrainian commander about that he told me that all ukrainian land is worth fighting for i also asked him about ukrainian leadership saying they were using this battle to try and exhaust russian forces ahead of the ukrainian counteroffensive in the spring. he told me he could definitely see that was working on the
into having blowing up bridges along the way creating what th british ministry of defense ha called a kill zone although the ministry of defense noting that the supply routes for the ukrainian force in the west have bee compromised to the north and t the south potentially. that is the overall situatio on the battlefield the battle that has claime thousands of lives we were at a hospital here i dnipro which is about 100 mile away from the city of bakhmut. they are treating wounde ukrainian soldiers, i spoke to one ukrainian soldier who ha been injured and the city of bakhmut itself he was slightly wounded. he described wave after wave o russian soldiers he said they were overwhelming ukrainian forces in terms of man power. he said sometimes that his uni was outnumbered 10 to 1. not being, said he insiste that ukrainians have the wil to fight he said this is our land, we
y all been to the scene. that feed room door is probably a bit tighter than this, but you saw the evidence from kenney kenzie and them and said clearly paul was in the middle of that feed room, it s a kill zone. nobody in there with him, he s in that room, no defensive wounds at all, his hands are down, and he takes that shot, buck shot to the chest and any person who did that would probably think that took care of business because this buck shot, but for some reason he was this way and it went through, it was a million to 1 shot that it didn t kill him. alec thought it did.
and i will submit to you this one is the most blatant one yet. we ll talk more about that in a second. what happened at 8:49? you saw the evidence from all the rest of them, clearly paul was in, the middle of that feed room, it s a kill zone. nobody in there with him. he s in that room. no defensive wounds at all. his hands are down. and he takes that shot, buck shot to the chest, and any