they believe those gains are still quite fragile, and also they believe if they provide too much information they might tip off the russians as to what exactly their strategy is up there. we have heard from the local authorities here, for instance, one of those districts under russian control in the northwest or towards the northwest of kyiv, that s now 80% back under the control of ukrainians. the ukrainian national police went back in there. they re burking there again. they do say it s under constant shelling from the russians, but they have managed to push the russians back. i think it s something where at this point in time in this particular location of this conflict the ukrainians do believe they have the russian military on the back foot, and you can really feel how they re continuing to try to press that campaign to try and push the russians back. you can see that from the increased shelling the ukrainians are conducting and generally from the movement there, don. fred, i wa
waging war not just on ukraine but on freedom itself. this is only the beginning for russia on the ukrainian land. russia is trying to defeat the freedom of all people in europe, of all the people in the world. he tries to show that only crude and cruel force matters. he tries to show that people do not matter as well as everything else that make us people. that s the reason we all must stop russia. the world must stop the war. i thank everyone who acts in support of ukraine, in support of freedom. but the war continues. and meanwhile tonight cnn s team on the ground in ukraine s capital witnessing a barrage of outgoing fire in the northwest. ukrainian forces firing on the russians, trying to push them out of the vicinity of kyiv. that as a senior u.s. defense
ukrainians go back this way and they could potentially encircle russian forces if any are remaining right here. they can do the same in the north eastern part. this little area of russian troops is very vulnerable to a ukrainian counter attack. the mayor of a suburb to the nort northwest of kyiv says ukrainian forces have taken back 80% of the city. just a few weeks ago we saw images of civilians fleeing irpin over a destroyed bridge. what does it take to retake irpin if that s happened? so, don, there s a lot that goes into something like this but basically it boils down to guns, ammunition and the will to fight. ukrainians have definitely shown they have the will to fight. they have access to guns, the ammunition that they need. and what they also developed were the tactics that were required to go house to house and take the russians and their
the psychological effects as i mentioned. colonel, a u.s. official saying ukrainian forces pushed russian troops around 15 to 20 miles back on the east side of the city. i mean, they seem to be gaining momentum around the capital, and it s really astonishing, i think, what the ukrainian military has been able to do. it is astonishing, don. and what s what s interesting about this is, you know, these maps are not going to quite reflect exactly what s happening on the ground, but look at this. this was an area where russians had troops that were really close to the city limits of kyiv both here and in the northwestern area. what they ve done is the ukrainians have recaptured about 80%, and there s a town about here where the ukrainians have also recaptured that town. what this means is that the