behind their humvee-type vehicles. their chaotic retreat, seen here from another angle one more example the stiff resistance the russians are encountering from mobile ukrainian units who know the lay of the land. but the russians can't escape. they run into further trouble, apparently surrounded. at least one of their trucks is disabled. a resident telling a reuters journalist one of the russians was killed in the firefight. >> translator: after we've killed this one, the others run away. they were some 12 to 15 people. that's it. we will win. they won't take kharkiv. they have come back to where they came from. >> reporter: ukrainian soldiers surround the abandoned vehicles, celebrating a small victory in a conflict where they should have no chance of holding off the enemy. off camera, one of them says -- "and that's how we meet the [ bleep ] russian army."