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Hello, im christian fraser. Youre watching the context on bbc news. The us is preparing for a cicada invasion. An insect that spends the vast majority of its life underground, but this year they will emerge in their biggest numbers in over 200 years. Its making me feel itchy already. Russia says President Putin has ordered Tactical Nuclear weapons drills near ukraine in response to what it called western threats to deploy troops there. The kremlin has also threatened strikes on uk Military Targe...

Outside, the bombardment continues. the day starts badly — the first arrival is beyond help. we dont want to intrude, so we keep our cameras away. men have just arrived in a van from a front line position. theyre asking for body bags. so this is something that the men really dont like to talk about. theyre very willing to talk about the injuries and people that have been saved, but its a much more sensitive subject, talking about the dead. this is dangerous territory, so its surveillance camer...

The reason weve come inside — those are cluster bombs landing allaround. a huge surprise because theyre trapped, really, between two fronts here. now, they wait and see if there are any casualties. the battlefields are nearby so ruslan pays close attention and spies an army truck arriving. outside, the bombardment continues. the day starts badly — the first arrival is beyond help. we dont want to intrude, so we keep our cameras away. men have just arrived in a van from a front line position....

Out. >> reporter: well, the objective of the u.n. inspectors is to try to, first of all, find out what really is going on there. if they get in they will be inspecting the level of russian military presence, the behavior of russian military troops there and also taking a close look at the safety procedures there. you have russian and ukrainian people working there, some ukrainians actually commuting into that area periodically from ukrainian-held territory. they are working under duress, theres ...

Ways ive seen ever. take a look. >> you have people like fauci saying that his lock youbs didnt cause any permanent damage to any young kids. >> were going to repeat the rewards across the whole country for years because they treated kids so poorly. and im just sick of seeing them. i know he says hes going to retire. someone needs to grab that little elf and chuck him across the stage. >> im sure hes about 57." im not sure who he is calling elf. i dont know why he thinks he can talk about other ...

To visit the plant. the question is will russia follow through with that. >> reporter: its a repeat indeed of the russian position thats been around for several weeks now that they welcome the ieae just under circumstances that in the past were unacceptable to the ukrainians such as having to get there through occupied territory, territory in ukraine occupied by russia. that may or may not have been sorted out. essentially vladimir putin is playing nice on the basic principle that the ieae might...

The russians thought that they were going to win easily, didnt they? >> yes. yes. >> reporter: but thats not whats happening? >> russians thought a few days finished war in ukraine, in a few days. >> reporter: we can hear its still going on here. >> yes, its shell and we can hear flight of shell. >> reporter: yeah. months later. >> russian -- russian government claimed their victory in a few days. i think we must be ready for a long war. >> reporter: a long artillery war with heavy weapons like ...

Happening. >> we can hear it still going on there you can hear. >> months later. russian government have a victory in a few days. >> a long artillery war with heavy weapons like this battle tank positioned in tree lines. these fires places quickly become vulnerable. the trips here need to be mobile. >> we have brought this front line position where they will fire on russian forces a short distance away. its a secret location. we can only stay for one round, we are told, after that, it will be re...

Its not a good sign when you can hear that whistle of an incoming round. those are being fired. those rounds are coming from the separatist areas and are landing inside ukraine. coming right over this front line position. coming right over this trench this village has been hit hard over the last four or five days and about half the people have moved out already. it came from this direction? what do you think the separatists are driving at why are they firing at the mostly empty villages before a...

Russia says the reason it has recognized these separatist areas, the reason it is potential going to in1r5ids this -- invade this country, is because ukraine is attacking the pro-russian population. thats not what we saw. we saul all of it coming from one direction, the ukrainians not firing back. >> sometimes rounds are closer than others. coming right over this front line position.