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Fire. a and the city is really divided between russian and ukraine forces. fighting is going on in some areas, street to street and house-to-house. there is a significant military presence in the area, but sf speaking to ukrainian soldiers around the town they tell us there are a lot of russian forces that, it is very difficult at this point for the ukrainians to go on the offensive. the best they could do right now as you saw from parts of that report we did, they're digging trenches in the city as well as around the city and reinforcing their armor as much as possible in the event that -- an...

This is normally months of training ukraine has shown an ability for soldiers and service members to learn u.s. systems, complex systems quickly but i suspect we're about to find out how much you can shorten the timeline on a somecomplex syste >> the ukrainian says they fear russia could invade from neighboring belarus. will ripley joins us. will, you were near the ukraine belarus border. what did you see? >> they're fortifying the defenses and digging trenches soldiers were using 100 years ago in world war i and putting more soldiers when ukraine needs the resources as they fright on the fron...

Mean, kherson is indefensible if the ukrainians take place little bit further north, and they are really not too far away from doing that and the danger is that the russian troops, 20,000 of them, west of the dnipro river, if they get surrounded, they will be in real trouble, and i think the russian minders seem to want to withdraw to more defensible positions east of the river but they are possibly not around —— allowed to. on the one hand, they have evacuated all russian collaborators, those who have worked for the russians and have worked for the russians and have been part of the russi...

The concern is over the weekend during just a 24-hour period, this fire exploded, more than doubled in size, and the heat that is helping drive that fire, well, that is forecast to continue over the next few days. now, what you see behind me, those are not clouds. that is smoke. we've also seen a lot of action from the air, we've seen 737s dropping retardant to try to contain the fire. the firefighters on the ground, some hot shot crews are digging trenches around the grove to try to protect those trees. now, these trees, some of them have bark two feet thick, so they can withstand regular fir...

Sparked more hotspots and potentially endanger these trees. that's what they're trying to do right now, is keep the trees as humid, as wet as possible and keep the flames as far away as they can. they're digging trenches, fire lines, trying to protect the trees. the issue, it is very hot here right now. it's going to continue to be hot over the next few days. that's their concern. what might be -- one other thing is a concern, sorry, is the terrain. it is steep. it is wooded. it is very difficult for fire crews to operate in this kind of environment, and it also means -- it's also this kind of...