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Notice and could change drastically. all right, our ed lavandera in odesa, ed, thank you very much. just so everyone knows, we re trying to establish contact with our frederik pleitgen who is in makariv right here. you see not far from kyiv. one of these towns that was under russian occupation that ukrainian forces now control, an area where they are expecting to find more evidence of atrocities, fred pleitgen hopefully will be on the ground for us there shortly. brianna? that s the case, right. we have been seeing areas where the most important stories are to be told, those stories we don t know what had been happening for the last month. they re in areas where communications have been severely affected. so we re working through that. but we re going to bring that up as soon as we can. in mykolaiv, in southern ukraine, one person was killed and five others were injured in early morning missile strikes yesterday. cnn s ben wedeman and his team narrowly escaped the artillery fire. ....
It really is a tragic sight that we re witnessing here. i think one of the things that is so remarkable is that just in less than an hour, as they did their tour, they picked up three bodies just that we saw, while we were doing live shots with you guys. so definitely devastating scenes that we have been seeing as we move along in the towns taken back by the ukrainian military, right now in makariv, this is one of those places where the russians were confronted by the ukrainian military, you see it from that destroyed armored personnel carrier, the fighting vehicle, really, it has a cannon on top. confronted by the russians here, big battle that took place here. they say one of the biggest battles in the region around kyiv and certainly one that was devastated. they said the occupation when the russians were here was absolutely awful, john. we re just hearing that is russian troops were going through the towns, they would take away phones or sim cards of people they were going door t ....
and, look, isabelle, as you put in your story, they were afraid they wouldn t be believed, but there you are telling these important stories. isabelle, we do appreciate you sharing them with us. and, berman, i think one of the things we re getting a sense of as isabelle reports is that as isabelle reports that the troops, the russian troops will go door to door, take the cell phones, the sim cards, there was no way for people to communicate with the outside. something we re hearing town to town. that breaking news you just saw, we now have established contact with frederik pleitgen who is on the ground in makariv here, one of these towns that was under russian occupation, now the ukrainians under control. you moved locations. give us a sense of what you re seeing now. reporter: hi there, john, yeah, sorry. it is difficult to establish communication in some of these places we re going. a lot of places communicationses were knocked out. we have to move to where we get some sort o ....