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Outrange in number anything the ukrainians -- the ukrainians have capable artillery, but the russians have so much it. the russians have some late-model tanks. but they're still fundamentally t-72, what they call b-3s, which go back a generation in technology. but upgraded, modernized, very capable, but a javelin could take it out, for example. you know, if we talk about those technologies. the air power, that will be a big difference, because the russians in 2014/2015, during the first invasion, officially weren't in ukraine. and the battles for eastern ukraine, with the separatists and ukrai...

>> reporter: yeah, that's absolutely right. we were quite surprised that was happening. i want to show our viewers where exactly we are. i'll step out of your way for a second here. a little more quiet, this is the last checkpoint before we go into the area where essentially that invasion is taking place. so if we go further down into that direction, that's where we see a lot of the tanks go into -- or towards ukrainian territory, but really the only place they can go is into ukraine around the area where kharkiv is. you're right, john, it has been a remarkable day that we have seen here in th...

We have been here for two and a half hours now and we have already seen a lot of russian military equipment move in there. it was all via the road. i think a telltale sign of what you're saying, which is absolutely correct that the russian main battle tanks that we saw, the t-72 tanks, when they rolled past us, their tracks were full of mud. they must have been dug in in one of the fields here. they decided not to advance by the field further because obviously they knew that they could just go via this road and go on to the other side of the border crossing towards ukraine. you're right, we ar...

Or drive a t-72 thing. on the outskirts of the country's second largest city, the ukrainians and the russians take potshots in the woods. [noise] as the ukrainian army awaits the enemy's next move. [noise] we are still inside the city. but it's a war zone. it's a battlefield. tanks and heavy armaments just about everywhere. we were given access to the suburban frontier and taken to a children's camp in the trees. we've marked terrence, cabins

This video shows a destroyed russian tank on fire. there is aerial footage of a russian tank column getting slammed with missiles. javelins and stingers, crucial to the ukrainians analysts say partly because they are so-called fire and forget weapons. >> so you can fire it and then the person who fires it can scoot. >> the russians experts say have their own very effective weapons in ukraine. caliber missiles and light mobile t-72 tanks. but they are also accused of using cluster bombs and preparing to use so-called vacuum or thermobaric bombs that are not supposed to be used in civilian areas...