near distance bring he quite clearly jumps at when it takes place. in izyum, we were told this was the scene of a ukrainian counter attack. today the russian military says they re in control. the ukrainian military will not comment on it and deny that is the case. they say this is very much a battle on the way. one thing i want to make clear, you hear ukrainians and russians say, we have control of this town, that town. it s very difficult to survive, that shows the ukrainians were still able to operate behind the lines. phil black, thank you. next we ll go back to wolf at the nato summit in brussels where leaders have just gun
ukraine s navy says a large russian ship now destroyed. the video shows a huge fire, that s a russian ship on fire ukrainians say. this will be a huge disruption of the russian efforts. also overnight, ukrainian forces pushing the russians back on the front line east of kyiv. they say the ukrainians have gained. i m joined here in lviv by cnn s phil black. indeed, john. if this is due to the ukrain ukrainians, and we understand this happened early this
this is a city that has been under control by russian troops. this is a fire at the dock yard ukrainians say aboard a russian landing ship, a vessel that s been in port for some kind. a ship that could deliver all kinds of supplies to the ground. a huge fire. secondary explosions. there s a big oil tank nearby we are told and some mu fishnfish depots aboard. i m joined by cedric layton. colonel, you look at this video and you hear what the ukrainians say. they have destroyed a russian vessel in an area more or less under control by the russians. yeah. that s a big deal, john.
this is a 370 foot vessel, not a small tugboat. it s called the dorsk. it was used to resupply russian forces surrounding mariupol. what the ukrainians are doing is engaujing in very good intelligence work and very good sabotage work acting on the intelligence. apparently the russian state media had used footage of the borsk in port and they were able to geo locate that and on the basis of that according to some reports, they were able to blow it up. this is something the ukrainians can be very proud of. it shows we ve been putting the maps up in months. in red the russian troops are operating. it doesn t mean in those areas the ukrainians can t fight back. there are other places where the ukrainians are having some
saw that a russian missile landed about 10 miles from poland s border. those eastern flanked countries are getting very nervous. there s a major increase in forces in the eastern flank nato countries as well as increased weaponry there. they re also going to be discussing sending additional equipment to the ukrainians to protect them against a possible chemical weapons attack. this is top of mind at nato as they determine contingency plans and what red lines might be for potential nato action inside ukraine. one of the major consequences could be that nato gets involved if russia does use, for example, chemical weapons. ian stoltenberg has said that would have severe consequences if russia used weapons of mass destruction in the country.