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activity in the kherson region and they note russia is having manpower problems with its military. and we begin our coverage in kyiv with melissa bell. what are ukrainian officials saying about this counteroffensive in the south? >> reporter: what we're hearing from regional officials is that day two of that counteroffensive is seeing more fighting in a number of towns along the front line. clearly this is a counteroffensive long anticipated and long prepared for. what we're seeing for the time being are warnings from senior ukrainian officials that while it is under way, people need...

Signs of movement on the ukrainian side, it is still less clear if, how it, orwhen side, it is still less clear if, how it, or when the russians will retreat from the city of kherson itself, as they say it will. we have just had a senior government official in kyiv saying the russians are prepared to leave a city of hell by mining everything they can. this has been an accusation aimed at invading forces for as long as they can, when they try to implement a scorched earth policy, saying, if we can't have kherson, nobody can. it is still a murky picture, especially around kherson, but on the ukr...

Have acknowledged that there were pretty heavy strikes there overnight. there is no electricity or water there. and also there was talk of gunfire in the streets of the town of kherson itself, that of course the big prize that the ooubian ukrainians want, the only one that they say that they want it back. and that those have been neutralized by the russian forces. impossible to independently verify that, however the russians do very much acknowledge that this is a very hot battle field at the moment and ukrainians are trying to advance towards the city of kherson. >> fred plig, keep us posted....