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You stand by. i want to go to nick paton walsh. i understand he's hearing air raid sirens. can you tell us what you're experiencing, snik. >> reporter: absolutely. we are in the southern town where the land bridge up to main ukraine from crimea controlled by the russians into which they've poured many troops. we're here for 24 hours. this is the first time we've heard an air raid sirens. i don't know if you can pick it up on the microphone. >> we can. >> there's some wind here. there's been an intense fight on the eastern pacific as we came in. we saw the damage this morning, big craters. ukra...

Side of the river at the moment. bizarre to see civilians driving up and down but the damage being done to this town on its outskirts on the eastern bid gives you an idea how everyone is going to lose, frankly, in this kind of conflict. but towns like this strategically, odessa air raid sirens starting up again. don't know if you can hear them. >> yeah. we can. >> which does make it seem like we're not talking about some kind of drill here. thank you. >> all right. nick, we want to make sure that you're safe. if you can just stand by for us, we're going to come back to you as you monitor the s...

Center. this is crimea. this is where nick is now. this is one of the fronts where the russians made their initial push. they are into this region. nick, i am very interested in what you're saying, ukrainian forces here were able to push them back. do you have any sense of how and in what kind of numbers? >> it's interesting. a lot of time ukrainian military statements we have to treat with a degree of skepticism. it's absolutely clear what we saw, we came in last night and the fighting was on this side, the ukrainian held side of the river and now the russians are on the other side. i spoke t...

This is cnn special live coverage of the russian invasion of ukraine. we do have important breaking news. just moments ago we got word here in the southern city of kirsan that ukrainian forces have pushed back a russian invasion across a bridge over the nieppa river. they have pushed the russians back more now from here. that was nick paton walsh and his team observing this with their own eyes. that's happening in the south. the capitol, city of kyiv under siege right now. we are getting words the russians are moving ever closer to the city center. yesterday we knew they established an air bri...

Warfare is a huge concept and it means having had forces and civilians and resistance brigades ready to face off. i'm not sure that that's happened. i would say if this lasts a long time you will get resistance and insurgency. i'm not sure and yet we're being told whatever forces are on the ground, ukrainian forces, they are putting up the maximum resistance you can. the river that nick paton walsh said one unit or two was pushed back. we understand the push from the east from the donbas area did not go as quickly and effectively and efficiently as possible. right now in moscow a press confere...