particularly in the northeast, the focus expected to be in the south around keir some. what is the latest you re seeing and witnessing on the ground there? reporter: that s right, jim. and this really seems to have been part of very clever communication strategy on the part of the ukrainians. that southern counteroffensive launched at the end of august and then the one here in the kharkiv region launched just under a week ago. that has made spectacular gains, sweeping across so many villages of the keir keefe region. of course, this is, remember, a counteroffensive that is the subject of a media blackout, journalists aren t allowed near the front lines so the only indication we have of its progress with those videos, those pictures being shared on social media by the ukrainian soldiers themselves as they ve been taking especially over the course of the weekend village after village all the way into key towns here in the kharkiv region like kupiansk and izyum. we wanted to see what wa