donbas region. i spoke to people willing to risk their lives against the russian war machine. in this city, ukrainian forces storm a building. it is actually a training exercise to prepare these men for one of the most dangerous forms of modern warfare, urban combat. the commander here was gravely wounded, pushing russian-backed separatists out of cities in the eastern donbas region in 2014. we have a duty to liberate our territories, he says. this is our land and we will not give it to anyone. that confidence shared by a regiment of front line troops in eastern ukraine. they show off recently arrived british-made land rovers and this armored personnel carrier. i just noticed something. take a look over here at this tire.
from the russian military. months after filming these videos, he is still fighting on the southern front. were the russians in this village before? yeah. the ukrainian military is fighting to claw back territory. it s very slow, the process to take back all of our territories. but step by step and with the help of the western guns and so on, artillery systems, we do it. this month my team and i traveled the length of the southern front from the critical port of odesa to the edge of the donbas region. i spoke to people willing to risk their lives against the russian war machine. in the city, ukrainian forces storm a building. it s actually a training exercise to prepare these men for one of the most dangerous forms of modern warfare, urban combat.
that. reporter: this month, my team and i traveled the length of the southern front from the critical port of odesa to the edge of the donbas region. i spoke to people willing to risk their lives against the russian war machine. in this city, ukrainian forces storm a building. it s a training exercise to prepare these men for one of the most dangerous forms of modern warfare, urban combat. the commander here was gravely wounded pushing russian-backed separatists out of cities in the eastern donbas region in 2014. we have a duty to liberate our territories, he says. this is our land and we will not give it to anyone. that confidence shared by a regiment of front line troops in eastern ukraine. they show off recently