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Killing thousands of civilians and battering the ukrainian forces. soldiers say donations like this have been invaluable as they brace for a long conflict. >> translator: its really unpredictable. sometimes the car might survive one or two months. sometimes the next day it can be under enemy fire and get destroyed. >> reporter: its an 800-mile journey from lviv to sloviansk and its not just the car shell give to those fighting. the trunk is filled with new uniforms, military equipment, and lots ...

Brace for a long conflict. >> translator: its really unpredictable. sometimes, the car might survive for one or two months, sometimes on the next day it can be under enemy fire and get destroyed. >> reporter: its an 800-mile journey from lviv to slovyansk. its filled eded with new unif and lots of fuel. as she packs she hopes the supplies will help those like her brother-in-law and other close friends now fighting in the east. >> translator: we had coffee two days before the war began. now, they...

Be under enemy fire and get destroyed. >> reporter: it is an 800-mile journey from lviv to slovyansk and it is not just the car that ileana will give to those fighting. the trunk is filled with new uniforms, military equipment, and lots of fuel. as she packs, she imagines these supplies will help soldiers like her brother-in-law, and other close friends, loved ones now fighting in the east. >> translator: we had coffee two days before the war began. now theyre on the front lines. but the fact i ...

This story. what more have you learned here? >> yeah, erica, so the intelligence community is conducting its own internal review of how it assesses how well a foreign military will perform when it is actually thrust into the heat of battle. more than just beyond just counting tanks, but its will to fight, right, like not just the military capabilities, but howan it is facing enemy fire. this comes as there is pressure from the senate intelligence committee who have sent in the last couple of day...

Sea fleet. now it is likely to be remembered as the largest warship sunk by enemy fire since the second world war. now, the russian defense ministry says the ship went down last night as it was being towed into port for repairs, but the ukrainian military says it hit that ship with two missiles yesterday. the russians very pointedly not giving any cause for the fire aboard that ship. theyre also not saying how many of its crew members may have died in either the initial explosion or the sinking ...

Not hit by enemy fire so they blew it up and didnt want to leave any of that behind. in terms of the civilian casualties, we are told that when u.s. forces arrived on site, they had loud speakers and they issued messages telling them to send out the civilians to women and children. some, thankfully, did come out, but the u.s. says that the isis leader blew himself up on the third floor of this building and that led to the death of civilians who were still in there with him. in just the last few ...

Fear in that moment? i have always said that if youre being shot at you have no fear, theres something wrong with you. >> the hero jima invasion brought on. >> under four hours after under heavy enemy fire he took out a network of japanese pillboxes with a flamethrower to clear the way for the infantry. are they spring bullets at you? >> oh yes absolutely. theyre trying to get their best to get me, why they didnt get me i have no answer other than he wasnt ready for me i guess. chris: president ...

>> do you feel any sense of fear in that moment? i have always said that if youre being shot at you have no fear, theres something wrong with you. >> the hero jima invasion brought on. >> under four hours after under heavy enemy fire he took out a network of japanese pillboxes with a flamethrower to clear the way for the infantry. are they spring bullets at you? >> oh yes absolutely. theyre trying to get their best to get me, why they didnt get me i have no answer other than he wasnt ready for m...

Been more than 50 cease-fire violations reported in that region. [ siren ] air raid sirens blair and people here on the streets appear remarkably calm, despite todays escalation of shelling. and weve learned two ukrainian service members have been injured by, quote, enemy fire. russia and ukraine are blaming each other for the cease-fire violations. pro-russian authorities and self-declared republics of ukraine have announced the evacuation of civilians to russia. meanwhile, the u.s. says russia...

The forces have suffered two casualties as a result of enemy fire along the front lines. >> live to kyiv and bring in cnn chief international correspondent clarissa ward. a lot of new information this morning and you have been to and from already what might be the biggest hot spot, the most tense area in the entire nation. >> so, john, these front lines between the ukrainian military and russian-backed separatists in the far east of the country have been largely frozen for years. the war has bee...