yesterday s anniversary. translator: if we all do our homework, which will be inevitable, i am certain there will be victory. i don t think, i want it this year. in parts of ukraine today, there has been no let-up in the fighting. a russian military spokesman said up to 60 ukrainian soldiers were killed fighting on the eastern front. cnn s melissa bill is in kyiv, priscilla alvarez at the white house. are there any signs of the major russian offensive that ukraine has been warning about? reporter: there has been this intensification, fredricka, but very much confined to the east of the country. all along that line and at several lines along it, and according both to ukrainian sources and to russian state media, what we have been seeing is an increase in the violence along that front line, and specifically along areas around bakhmut. what we ve been hearing this evening, now that all the ceremonies for the first year anniversary have passed, is that the result of the
in fact, the number of russians encountered at the u.s. southern border has nearly tripled since putin imposed the draft, from about 1,600 russianness august of 2022, the month before the draft, to more than 4,500 in january 2023. this is russia, this is the bus station. reporter: fearing michael could be drafted at any moment, they separated. it was just temporary. reporter: michael left russia first to kazakhstan by bus. a week later, nellie and the boys joined him. my favorite moment. i was so happy. crying. reporter: she traveled by train to uzbekistan where they slept on the floor of an apartment they shared with friends for more than a month. but they were nervous bus uzbekistan is a post-soviet country that can be friendly to