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There are also new signs of progress for ukraine in the desperate fight in the invasion. a counter attack in the north and west kyiv is now jeopardizing russian attempts to encircle the capital city. fred plight eitgen is on the gr for us in kyiv. give us the latest. >> reporter: certainly there was a lot more intense fighting than we've seen since we've been here. it was a theme that we saw. also the massive plumes of smoke. and just to make that a little more specific, a lot of that was happening on the northern outskirts of the ukrainian capital of kyiv. sort of to the northwest of there. w...

Cnn's fred plight eitgen today. it doesn't mean the attacks have stop, right? >> reporter: it certainly doesn't. and throughout the course of the day, we have been hearing a lot of air raid sirens going off in the ukrainian capital. i was here a good chunk of the day and there were quite a few of the air alarms and what seemed to be surface to air. they were thinking, they were seeing some sort of russian movement in the air that could have threatened the ukrainian capital. and then the battle still does go on near kyiv as well. what we're seeing on the screen is that suburb of irpin where a l...