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russia right now, bracing for what they call the heaviest battles ahead in the fight for kherson. cnn is reporting from the front lines as vladimir putin is lobbing new verbal attacks at the west. also tonight, president biden touts unexpected economic growth as he he tries to rev up democratic voters in the blue state of new york. we ll break down his message and his challenges as recession fears persist 12 days before the midterm elections. and former president trump s lawyers take part in a secret court hearing related to the mar-a-lago documents investigation. why did they meet with u.s. justice department prosecutors here in washington, d.c.? welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get straight to ukraine right now. the front lines of what one official warns will be, quote, the heaviest of battles against the russian invasion. cnn s senior international correspondent fred pleit ....
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The heaviest of battles against the russian invasion. cnn s senior international correspondent fred pleitgen is on the scene for us tonight. reporter: across these fields are the russians. that means we need to get into the trenches that snake their way through this battle space in southern ukraine. so this is the actual front line between the russians and the ukrainians. they say that the russians are only a couple of kilometers in that direction, and obviously there s a lot of shelling that goes on here almost all the time. a destroyed tank turret right outside the ukrainian position shows just how fierce the fighting is here. spent cartridges from cluster bombs and russian flak vests also still lying around. while some thought the ukrainians might quickly oust the russians and take back the key city of kherson, in the trench a feeling of stalemate. translator: there s shelling every day. in some places less, in some more. we would shoot back, but we have nothing to shoot with he ....
Fewer than the losses on the ukrainian side. another thing we also saw on the front line is there seemed to be quite a few russian military vehicles on the russian side that were actually broken down and needed to be towed. it s really unclear whether or not that s sort of the common attrition you would have in an operation this size with obviously tracked vehicles, for instance driving on asphalt roads and some of the trucks that we saw broken down were older as well. it certainly is something that did stand out. a lot of russian forces still going in and out of that battle zone. and some of the trucks that we saw coming out of the kharkiv, the battlefield area, the drivers of those trucks hung their flak vests into the windows so the bulletproof vests they normally wear on their bodies, that could be an indication they were taking sniper fire or were afraid of sniper fire. but of course from our vantage point, it was impossible to say that with certainty. fred polite ken, cnn, belgor ....
Anti-journalism law in russia has made it hard to report from russia in recent weeks. cnn s senior international correspondent fred pleitgen has been able to cover water in both russia and ukraine. he was originally in russia witnessing tanks rolling into ukraine, he was able to witness that all firsthand, and then with putin s crackdown on the media pleitgen is one of those international correspondents who left russia, he is now in ukraine, he s been there for the past couple of weeks. he s been across the country and joins us now from the heart of kyiv. fred, thanks for coming on the program. tell us where you are. reporter: brian, first of all, thanks for having me on. i m actually right in the heart of kyiv right in the city center. it s quite interesting because of course we all have to wear our flak vests on the ground because there is a lot of shelling coming from from the russian missiles as well. but you have a tank barrier in the center of the city and some traffic rolling ....