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Counterattack around the capital region, around kyiv. a few curfew will kick in a few hours. >> reporter: we're right in the city center. there's a tank barrier that was set up here with sandbags, obviously, a defensive position. and this is something that you really see throughout the entire city, with a lot of checkpoints, a lot of soldiers on the ground, defense forces as well. just to give you an idea, we are literally in the city center. over there, you see the right in the middle of the ukrainian capital. at the same time, though, you do get the sense here, right now, that the people her...

Anti-journalism law in russia has made it hard to report from russia in recent weeks. cnn's senior international correspondent fred pleitgen has been able to cover water in both russia and ukraine. he was originally in russia witnessing tanks rolling into ukraine, he was able to witness that all firsthand, and then with putin's crackdown on the media pleitgen is one of those international correspondents who left russia, he is now in ukraine, he's been there for the past couple of weeks. he's been across the country and joins us now from the heart of kyiv. fred, thanks for coming on the program...

Successful counteroffensive outside of kyiv. what are you learning? >> yeah, that's exactly what they are saying, don. and they say they're making headway with that. nevertheless, of course, kyiv is still very much a city on a war footing. we are actually right in the city center. you can see behind me there's a tank barrier that's right in the middle of the ukrainian capital of kyiv. as right now you can really feel and hear the war pretty much at all hours here. we have the russians saying they hit a full depot. the biggest fuel depot they say the ukrainians still have with a cruise missile ...

We are right in the city center and as you can see, there is a tank barrier that was set up here with sandbags. obviously, a defensive position and this is something that you really see throughout the entire city with a lot of checkpoints, a lot of soldiers on the ground, defense forces as well. and just to give you an idea, we are literally in the city center. over there, you see the midon of course right in the middle of the ukrainian capital. at the same time, though, you do get the sense here right now that the people here have a little more room to breathe. that they feel a little more se...

Ukraine. russia claims it has achieved its initial goals in ukraine and will now focus on, quote, the liberation of the eastern donbas region. that is where russian-backed separatists have been fighting ukrainian forces for the past eight years. now, the apparent change in strategy comes as russian advances on major ukrainian cities continue to stall. a senior-u.s. defense official says russian forces around kyiv are in defensive positions, and that all ground movements toward the capital have stopped. although, long-range strikes and air attacks are obviously continuing. the russian advance o...