Nieppa River News Today

You stand by. i want to go to nick paton walsh. i understand hes hearing air raid sirens. can you tell us what youre experiencing, snik. >> reporter: absolutely. we are in the southern town where the land bridge up to main ukraine from crimea controlled by the russians into which theyve poured many troops. were here for 24 hours. this is the first time weve heard an air raid sirens. i dont know if you can pick it up on the microphone. >> we can. >> theres some wind here. theres been an intense f...

Side of the river at the moment. bizarre to see civilians driving up and down but the damage being done to this town on its outskirts on the eastern bid gives you an idea how everyone is going to lose, frankly, in this kind of conflict. but towns like this strategically, odessa air raid sirens starting up again. dont know if you can hear them. >> yeah. we can. >> which does make it seem like were not talking about some kind of drill here. thank you. >> all right. nick, we want to make sure that ...

Center. this is crimea. this is where nick is now. this is one of the fronts where the russians made their initial push. they are into this region. nick, i am very interested in what youre saying, ukrainian forces here were able to push them back. do you have any sense of how and in what kind of numbers? >> its interesting. a lot of time ukrainian military statements we have to treat with a degree of skepticism. its absolutely clear what we saw, we came in last night and the fighting was on this...

This is cnn special live coverage of the russian invasion of ukraine. we do have important breaking news. just moments ago we got word here in the southern city of kirsan that ukrainian forces have pushed back a russian invasion across a bridge over the nieppa river. they have pushed the russians back more now from here. that was nick paton walsh and his team observing this with their own eyes. thats happening in the south. the capitol, city of kyiv under siege right now. we are getting words th...

Warfare is a huge concept and it means having had forces and civilians and resistance brigades ready to face off. im not sure that thats happened. i would say if this lasts a long time you will get resistance and insurgency. im not sure and yet were being told whatever forces are on the ground, ukrainian forces, they are putting up the maximum resistance you can. the river that nick paton walsh said one unit or two was pushed back. we understand the push from the east from the donbas area did no...