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Fascinating today, that secret location, meeting with reporters, president zelenskyy. you asked, how long does he believe how long he can hold out against the russians, does he plan to stay in ukraine, and im just so curious of what your sense of president zelenskyy is. what does he sense he truly faces in the days ahead here? >> reporter: yeah, i mean, hes strong, hes defiant, but hes clearly exhausted. the man is surviving on just a few hours sleep a night. but he is defiant. he knows he, his ...

Lucy kavanaugh. lucy, what more are your hearing about that offensive? >> reporter: hey, ali, windy day here in erbil, but iraqi soldiers are continuing their push into mosul. the city is surrounded to the north, south, and east. shiite officials now focusing on the west to try to cut off the road from mosul to tal afar, thats been a critical supply route for the islamic state fighters. as for the battle itself, weve been talking about how its been slowing down because of those civilians trapped...

Conclusion that you really deserve to have made it through. its not easy. theres nothing more difficult than being in combat and some people say that one of the hardest things is to survive. >> captain, the president noted this as well, what makes this even more extraordinary is that we actually have video of some of the battle itself, the minutes following it, as captain swenson attempted to save the life of sergeant first class kenneth westbrook who died soon after the attack, he was shot. but...

Fire and defense secretary gates expected the pace of the attacks to slow as targets are reduced and many of the fixed anti-aircraft systems already have been knocked out. back to you. >>neil: steve, is it your sense that it will be harder than originally thought, to find qaddafi? >>guest: they would say the goal is not to find qaddafi but it is a battle itself, as it is closer to tripoli it will be tremendously hard to tell who is who. and to do this from the air ... without civilian casualties...

>> atia, a couple of questions come to mind. first of all, ive seen some quotes from military officials describing the resistance to this point as being light to little. how would you describe the resistance that youve encountered? >> reporter: tony, its easy to say resistance is light and little when its coming from safe areas. when youre within the battle itself, when youre witnessing it with your own eyes, they may be sporadic. it may not be constant. but its strong. its there. there are smal...

Was in afghanistan at the time. and while that battle was unfolding, i was not near the battle itself, but i was in a command center that was monitoring the battle. the battle raged on for five, six hours. with each succeeding hour, it got more horrific. i cant tell you how concerned all the commanders who were surrounding me at the time were as they heard this battle unfold. and you pretty much hit on one of the biggest problems. it was located at the bottom of a ravine surrounded by those moun...