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Do to ukrainian homes. this is relentless. the reason that these men are holding on so tight here in these defensive positions is because they simply cannot let the russians through here. if they do, more ukrainian troops to the south and the donbas will be under threat. so they are hanging on for dear life here. at the front, there's no bunker, but they are armed to the teeth. yuri, this is a volunteer battalion, these men were doing ordinary jobs before the war, and they are facing against russian tanks, russian heavy artillery, indirect fire, how are they managing to hold the russians off? ...

This is relentless. the reason that these men are holding on so tight here in these defensive positions is because they simply cannot let the russians through here. if they do, more ukrainian troops to the south and the donbas will be under threat. so they are hanging on for dear life here. at the front, there's no bunker, but they are armed to the teeth. yuri, this is a volunteer battalion, these men were doing ordinary jobs before the war, and they are facing against russian tanks, russian heavy artillery, indirect fire, how are they managing to hold the russians off? our men, they are going...

Then apparently the ukrainians had the ability to counterattack. i just wonder, based on the soda straw view that you and i are getting of that battlefield, what is your assessment of where russian efforts stand in the east right now? >> they -- the russians continue to be disorganized from a component of combined arms operations. indirect fire, direct fires, and aviation assets. so it is a largely artillery based army, mass fires, less frequent use of precision weapons, and when we talk about mobility, countermobility, when you're relied upon a single pontoon bridge, in the vicinity, that is ...

Russians have mormorale. but when the heavy stuff begins, a matter of days or weeks, what would that look like? >> very key to understand about russia formations, essentially how they fight, is they use massive amounts of artillery. the u.s. uses artillery at a more precise format. we'd go and really pick out targets, try to lace targets with precision-guided munitions. most of what the russians do is overwhelming saturation of indirect fire. massive artillery prep. in this region here, essentially from izyum to slovyansk to crimea, you'll see massive deployment across the board. hopefully i c...

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