brockovich telling me this community will likely need testing for the foreseeable stew future. this begins a huge water issue. we ve seen it play itself out over and over and over again. reporter: david, this week up to three wells are going in at that derailment site to test to see if there are toxins in the groundwater there. out of an abundance of caution. david. alex presha on this story again tonight, thank you, alex. the u.s. is warning c tel ws ying i china â– did erwod be dquc the. ian pannell in ukraine for us again tonight. reporter: tonight, intense battles raging across the front lines in eastern ukraine. new video showing street-to-street fighting in back 3450u9. the city in ruins. with russia losing men and munitions, the u.s. warning china not to help russia. the u.s. state department saying if china were to provide lethal assistance to russia, it would
of weeks ago. you always see the same footprint of both the russian advance and ukrainian defence, where you see buildings, residential blocks, homes, destroyed. where shells rained down. they do not seem to be targeted. and in the case of soledar and its nearby city there are soldiers engaged in street to street fighting. there is almost a conveyor belt of casualties certainly coming back on the ukrainian side as they continue to mount this defence. what really strikes you is how this conflict has somehow sustained, how it continues. ukraine will always fight, it is clear. we are talking about a part of the country where there has been a war around nine years, that goes beyond the invasion of february the 24th. i think it beyond the invasion of february the 24th. ithink it is beyond the invasion of february the 24th. i think it is safe to say, in all of ukraine, anyone is in harm s
professionally, not like usual infantry units. she alway shells continue to land all around them. bakhmut is a mess. russia edging towards it, but not inside. prepared for street-to-street fighting, and meanwhile torn to pieces. the losses are heavy and exposed positions around the city, particularly here. russia s invasion tearing through the green treasured land it claims to covet. why do they want bakhmut so much? they retreated elsewhere and they need a victory, so they throw forces here. of course we have casualties, not today in our unit, but you can t avoid dead or wounded. i lost my close friend five days after we came here. there are still many people here
it s charred. they are almost eyeball to eyeball. the next attack is imminent. we can see a mortar unit the drone operator says and preparing to fire at us. down in the shelter the commander says they ve captured russian convicts who were recruited to fight. it was get shot or surrender for the conduct, they said. wagner acted professionally. the shells continue to land all around. bakhmut is a mess. russia edging towards it but not inside. prepared for street-to-street fighting and meanwhile torn to pieces. the losses are heavy and exposed positions around the city, particularly here.
convicts to fight. shells continue to land all around them. this city is a mess. russia edging towards it, but not inside. prepared for street-to-street fighting and meanwhile torn to pieces. the losses are heavy and expose positions around the city, particularly here. russia s invasion tearing through the green treasured land it claims to covet. why do they want it so much. they retreated, need a victory, so they throw forces here, of course we have casualties. i lost my close friend five days after we came here. there are still many people here