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Its not enough. its only beginning. >> ukrainian forces are getting help from foreign volunteers who have arrived with years of combat experience. including former elite special forces from the u.s. weve spoken with one othem in the exclusive report. >> how did you know where to go some. >> we didnt. we just knew the enemy was this way. we hopped through the back yards and clear through here. >> reporter: its not as straight forward as it sounds. veterans of years of counterinsurgency warfare, t...

Guarded, really, about what they reveal in any kind of detail about the extent of the war, but i think that essentially, they recognize and indeed president zelenskyy has reinforced this in the last 24 hours or so, saying that the war in the east is taking a heavy toll. 50 to 100 people being killed everyday, thats combat people on the ukrainian side, according to the president, i think that is an estimate that the foreign fighters that ive spoken to been involved in those combat operations ther...

Welcomed figure. >> nic robertson, appreciate it, tomorrow brings a bit of normality back to kharkiv, ukraines second biggest city, the subway system which has been used as a network of bomb systems since the war began goes back to being a way around town, begins service on reduced schedule tomorrow morning. war still waging on, western observers say the momentum tipping towards russia though to what degree and how long is unclear. what is clear, though, in the flood of western military aid, con...

Heavy, we put this chair here so we could jump out the window if we had to in a hurriy. >> reporter: deeper into the spot, he comes across evidence that russia plays dirty, even in local defeat. >> so a lot of the russians came through these places and remind them, put booby traps, you can see this cable goes back into the ground where its been intentionally buried and then its tied off here. >> reporter: so far, this group has not lost a soldier. >> definitely a nightmare. >> reporter: but that...

The other end of the barrel. and have asked us to conceal their identities for their own security. this is a war that has a moral clarity for these volunteers in ukraines international legion. >> people keep saying that you are doing it for democracy. it is really not. it is really coming down to good versus evil. i never figured out why they were killing women and children. and it wasnt by accident. it was murder. we found many people on this street bound together and shot, thrown on the side o...

Welcome back. people in mykolaiv, ukraine, are desperate to escape. this is a critical route on the advance to odesa. it appears a ground assault on the ground could come at any time. cnns nick paton walsh reports. >> reporter: this is the war down which russias war of annihilation may lurch, and its emptiness speaks only of what is to come from russian held kherson up here to the fighting force of mykolaiv. they know what it is to be in russias way. out of 18 homes, 10 are left. no electricity,...

Have other countries providing a market for russians, its difficult to bring russias economy to its knees. one of the things the president is doing is putting pressure on europe and other allies not to engage in commerce with russian oil and other russian key industries. >> as you know, thats a very tough sell. they are so dependent on russian oil. what about some of the other countries who have been on the sidelines -- saudi arabia, israel, what does the u.s. need to do to get them to engage an...

Now latched onto another theory, first it was critical race theory. now its a great replacement theory. and just when you think things couldnt get any crazier they are now pushing this, as i just, said to the set up to the segment, that this notion that democrats want immigrants to come into this country to replace white people so they vote democrat. your thoughts on that. your theater radical thoughts on this? >> well the great replacement theory, and i hear using that phrase, because it gives ...

End this war by talking to the taliban, trying to get some kind of peace deal that allows us to draw this war down. kristin: right. and for something like that to happen, just days before an election, it just had to really hit at voter morale and yet you have to think about these people who are actually risking their lives to go out and cast their vote. >> absolutely. kristin: it puts things into perspective when were getting ready to vote in a few weeks or so. >> an absolute message of courage ...

Some of the specific threats posed by north korea above all the nuclear missile threat, and theres nothing in here that interrupted the freeze on testing of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. so i would say thats essentially what we got. and the fact also that the united states, for some at least, that we seem to be embracing diplomacy. this is an administration that spent the last several days, not just kicking its allies, but seeming to reject the normal give and take of diplomacy. i dont...