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Capital. what is extraordinary about sochsome of this new footage is it's from ground level. we can see the danger up close. showing how ukrainian forces may be holding off the russians. including in the territory east in the capital kyiv. when this video begin, there's gunfire all around. a soldier seen crouching. seconds later an explosion and a cloud of smoke. the person taking the video runs toward it. man comes into view running toward the camera with a shoulder fired missile launcher. he appears to be handed a missile from the person taking the video as he runs past. this intense footage...

Local officials now estimate 600 people survived the attack, but 300 were killed in that single offensive. and we're getting a closer look now at the intense ground fighting being waged near ukraine's capital. cnn's brian todd has that report. >> reporter: new on the ground footage of the combat and carnage in ukraine, showing how ukrainian forces may be holding off the russians. including in the territory east of the capital, kyiv. [ sound of gunfire ] when this video begins, there's gunfire all around. a soldier seen crouching. seconds later, an explosion and a cloud of smoke. the person t...

>> can you comment on the inference that secretary gates has in the book that both secretary clinton and president obama admitted their opposition to the iraq surge. there was an inference there that the president also was engaging -- >> what i don't understand about that is anybody who covered barack obama going all the way back to his race for the senate knows that he was opposed to the iraq war. that was his view running for senate, as a senator, as a candidate for presidency. so it would be entirely inconsistent not to hold the position he held with regard to the surge. i don't know what c...

>> can you comment on the inference that secretary gates has in the book that both secretary clinton and president obama admitted their opposition to the iraq surge and that politics played a role in their opposition to the iraq surge. there was an inference that the president was engaging in this discussion. >> what i don't understand about that is anybody who has covered barack obama going all of the way back to his race for the senate knows that he was opposed to the iraq war. that was his view running for the senate. his view as senator. view as candidate for the presidency. so it would be...