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Special forces that had choppered in just houred before and battled off ukrainian military. the fire fight you saw, you played a few moments ago, that followed that conversation and it may have been the start of a counter attack. the ukrainian government say theyve recaptured the area. i dont know if thats the case because im not there anymore. >> yes, no, i understand that and if ukrainian forces did retake it, that would be significant. we have nothing to indicate thats true or not. we just do...

We understand that it took 40 people and ten vehicles, now, from the ukrainian special services, to put out the fire. the fire now, we understand, was in a training building behind the plant. but look, not any less alarming when you look at that video, and you the plant. the other thing, there is nothing to, to guarantee that wont be some kind of russian counter attack. we have seen this time and time again, two russian tanks, two armored personnel carriers and it took civilians standing in the ...

In control of the sky as much as they figured that they were, theyre starting to resort to lower risk but less precise older weapons. and so one of them in particular is weapons fired from aircraft. theyre called standoff air launched weapons and what this does is essentially allows jets to not have to get as close, not as much risk to the planes or the pilots and they can fire those weapons from farther away. the difficulty there, theyre much less precise and often hitting these civilian target...

Emergency services say russia shelled a residential building. advancing russian troops have faced serious logistical problems, with many vehicles reportedly running out of fuel, as well as strong ukrainian resistance. our first report is from jeremy bowen in kyiv. a warning — it contains some flashing images. just after dawn, another attack at a residential area in kyiv. ukrainian forces say theyre keeping russian artillery out of range, but missiles can be fired from russia, and they are hard...

Much perhaps as going the other way and at least one adviser to president zelenskyy is now openly talking about the ukrainian counter attack in number of different locations. anderson. >> we saw the theater where, according to a local official, hundreds o of people had been sheltering. its under a plume of smoke. looks like it has collapsed. what do we know about what happened there and is there any actual information? do we know any facts about whether people were still sheltering there under g...

Russian naval ships have turned their weapons on mariupol as well and the u.s. defense officials believe that, yeah, theres a group of seven naval ships and several of which have joined the attack on mariupol. one year into this it shows it is unequal and mismatched even as ukraine defends fiercely and goes on the counter attack and russia is still struggling to build up momentum. >> many thanks to phil black joining us from lviv. they are refusing to rule out the possibility that russia will us...

Of belarus could soon be called in as backup for russian forces. lets begin now with fred pleitgen whos in kyiv. fred, its nice to see you. i have to ask you what is the status right now of this ukrainian counter attack thats happening there? >> well, i mean i can tell you certainly there was a lot of inintense fighting around the ukrainian capital, and were under a curfew and have been since last night, actually. and there were some who believe maybe that was because ukrainians might have been ...

There are also new signs of progress for ukraine in the desperate fight in the invasion. a counter attack in the north and west kyiv is now jeopardizing russian attempts to encircle the capital city. fred plight eitgen is on the gr for us in kyiv. give us the latest. >> reporter: certainly there was a lot more intense fighting than weve seen since weve been here. it was a theme that we saw. also the massive plumes of smoke. and just to make that a little more specific, a lot of that was happenin...

Under a 35—hour curfew. our first report is from jeremy bowen in kyiv, a warning — it contains some flashing images. just after dawn, another attack hit a residential area in kyiv. ukrainian forces say theyre keeping russian artillery out of range, but missiles can be fired from russia, and they are harder to stop. it was another harsh day. in the besieged city of mariupol, a theatre was hit, where the deputy mayor says civilians were sheltering. it isnt yet clear how many were in there when...

Eeventual target was, it may have been what should have been a precision weapon presumably fired at a more important strategic target than ordinary ukrainians. of course we have seen in mariupol similar sized weapons used directly against civilians, at least not in the theater recently and prior to that in the hotel. the now, the prospect of these continued attacks from the civilians has galvanized the response and the volunteers that support them to such an extent today that the deputy chief of...