activity in the kherson region and they note russia is having manpower problems with its military. and we begin our coverage in kyiv with melissa bell. what are ukrainian officials saying about this counteroffensive in the south? reporter: what we re hearing from regional officials is that day two of that counteroffensive is seeing more fighting in a number of towns along the front line. clearly this is a counteroffensive long anticipated and long prepared for. what we re seeing for the time being are warnings from senior ukrainian officials that while it is under way, people need to be patient. we ve been hearing from a senior aid to president zelenskyy saying this morning this is going to be a slow grind. urging patience on the part of ukrainians. we heard also from the ukrainian president himself in his nightly address speaking of his determination saying that russians needed now to go home since they would he said be chased back to their border. clearly this is a turnin
chaotic exit and continue to echo on the american political scene. but the people of afghanistan now live the effects of that 20 year long war every day.d re extensively from afghanistan and she is joining us now. there is a grim precarious future. reporter: that s right. we just returned from two week within afghanistan and no question that this country is now more isolated than it has been in a very long time and more impoverished. and that is the thing that really strikes you when you are on the ground. according to the international rescue committee, 97% of afghans will be living in poverty by the end of the year. and more than half the country is reliant on humanitarian aid and nearly half the afghan people are facing a state of acute hunger. and there are real fears that there could be something