attack against ukraine. i hope one day there is a peace and we have a peaceful neighborhood and cooperation continues normally, but we are not yet there. the war in ukraine, military leaders describe intense shelling in the luhansk region. plumes of smoke from fighting along a key river separating ukrainian and russian forces. ukraine s military has destroyed several pontoon bridges to slow a russian advance. in chernihiv, three people reportedly killed and 12 wounded by russian attacks on two schools. mos cow says they were targeting command posts and ammunition depos. and a number of villages are once again under russian forces in the kharkiv region. cnn s nick paton walsh begins our coverage. reporter: the quiet pines around the east of kharkiv are slowly revealing their trauma. the kremlin is being pushed back so fast, we are only nine miles from their border. being closer to the motherland
ukrainians say more border villages are coming under fire from russian artillery and air strikes. as russians fall back, the horrors of their invasion emerge for the world to witness. reporter: the quiet pines around the east of kharkiv are slowly revealing their trauma. the kremlin is being pushed back so fast, we are only nine miles from their border. being closer to the motherland that russia absurdly claims it is. [ explosions ] offering no mercy to these civilians. as they liberate village after village, pushing russian forces back towards their own border, this is the atrocity that they keep copping across. this car, hit by a tank shell as the convoy fled. the troops from the kharkiv territorial defense tell us the intensity of the fire, no match for the innocence of those on