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Constant artillery exchanges and very close quarter fighting, taking a terrible toll. the brutal fight for bakhmut. ukraine troops are battling russia's onslaught. these exclusive images are from the soldiers themselves. the commanders tell us dozens of lives are now being sacrificed here every day. the road into town is heavy with thick smoke and danger. explosions ahead force to us pull over before another slams into a building close by. all right. you can hear the incoming rounds. the incoming rounds of russian

Suffering major losses, is that true or a line of propaganda. >> i don't believe either side in any war when they start talking about losses in the ranks of their enemy, so we take it with a pinch of salt anything the ukrainians say about 20,000 russian dead, we don't know how many ukrainian dead are, except president zelenskyy have said 50 to 100 people are dying on the front. sort of around kramatorsk, he's not talking about the southern front. that is even in the admission of the ukrainian death toll very substantial, and on top of that, there is beginning to be independent confirmation, an...

>> sam joins us now from kramatorsk. the volunteers you spoke with, they must be scared for their own safety. >> reporter: oh, they're very scared. very frequently they come under artillery fire. there's very small, very low levels of small arms fire here, indeed that's been the characteristic of this war in general, but particularly in this phase, anderson. this is an artillery duel going on, particularly in the east, just north of where i am, where i was with maria there, we could hear regular detonations from incoming and outgoing artillery. just now, as dawn is breaking here in kramatorsk,...

Donetsk and luhansk. you mentioned 42 settlements that have been captured by the russians. captured, i think, say difficult word to assign to those sort of artillery exchanges, really. there's very little movement of infantry yet in this war because they are following, particularly the russians, this long-range tactical strikes that the soviets have pioneered. and then they're going to try and follow up with the tanks and heavy armor. i think the ukrainians will be preparing to meet them when they try to do just that. we haven't yet seen any significant ukrainian response except to just to try...

What will happen is instead something a bit more kind of a full invasion of ukraine could take place. so we're looking very carefully at the situation, a lot of tensions that are happening at the moment. allegations and counter allegations of artillery exchanges and cease-fire violations across the line of control between government forces and rebel forces and so we are waiting, as is kyiv, very nervously right now about what the next step will be. kristin? >> matthew, thank you. joining me now is retired army brigadier general mark kemt, thank you for being with us. i want to start by talking...