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It's not enough. it's only beginning. >> ukrainian forces are getting help from foreign volunteers who have arrived with years of combat experience. including former elite special forces from the u.s. we've spoken with one othem in the exclusive report. >> how did you know where to go some. >> we didn't. we just knew the enemy was this way. we hopped through the back yards and clear through here. >> reporter: it's not as straight forward as it sounds. veterans of years of counterinsurgency warfare, this small team of american and british fighters is under ukrainian command and they lock at war...

Guarded, really, about what they reveal in any kind of detail about the extent of the war, but i think that essentially, they recognize and indeed president zelenskyy has reinforced this in the last 24 hours or so, saying that the war in the east is taking a heavy toll. 50 to 100 people being killed everyday, that's combat people on the ukrainian side, according to the president, i think that is an estimate that the foreign fighters that i've spoken to been involved in those combat operations there in the south too would endorse. they are saying the ukrainians are getting hit and hit hard, but...

Welcomed figure. >> nic robertson, appreciate it, tomorrow brings a bit of normality back to kharkiv, ukraine's second biggest city, the subway system which has been used as a network of bomb systems since the war began goes back to being a way around town, begins service on reduced schedule tomorrow morning. war still waging on, western observers say the momentum tipping towards russia though to what degree and how long is unclear. what is clear, though, in the flood of western military aid, continues to be westerners volunteering to fight for ukraine, sam kiley meets one of them, an american...

Heavy, we put this chair here so we could jump out the window if we had to in a hurriy. >> reporter: deeper into the spot, he comes across evidence that russia plays dirty, even in local defeat. >> so a lot of the russians came through these places and remind them, put booby traps, you can see this cable goes back into the ground where it's been intentionally buried and then it's tied off here. >> reporter: so far, this group has not lost a soldier. >> definitely a nightmare. >> reporter: but that time may come. it's a risk, he says, he's prepared to take because for the west's former warriors...

The other end of the barrel. and have asked us to conceal their identities for their own security. this is a war that has a moral clarity for these volunteers in ukraine's international legion. >> people keep saying that you are doing it for democracy. it is really not. it is really coming down to good versus evil. i never figured out why they were killing women and children. and it wasn't by accident. it was murder. we found many people on this street bound together and shot, thrown on the side of the road. >> reporter: many on this team have had millions spent on their training in the west. ...