after russian led forces recently claimed that they had full control over the entire republic. ortiz murat, good gasdio reports from the ground there. outskirts of delegate, of course, we witnessed a somewhat rare spectacle and attempted offensive by ukrainian forces. i saw i thought that our movie. yeah. in support of the game on the white glove, the ukranian troops here belonged to the infamous nationalist cracking battalion. their intent was to get close to bill or god of go through the woods near by. they were met with a hail of artillery fire the pacific on after that we were ordered to retreat. every one ran away, we kept shouting, don't shoot at the soldiers who were behind us were. dmitri was wounded by shrapnel . he was left behind by his panicked brothers in arms in all full kracken fighters were captured alive, one of them, an officer. or how did commanders treat the troops? i don't know like birth worms just crushed them under foot and kept walking. how is morale in your units in crackin? no, there no morale. no one wants to fight. oh we did is watch the sky for rocket launcher

, a cleanup operation is taking place on the territories now controlled by russian lead forces ortiz, murat, gasdio followed russian soldiers on one such operation in a town near the recently embattled cities of several done yet can lease it chanced barely a week ago, the town of please warrior was controlled by ukrainian forces. the front lines may have moved far away, but this is a clearing operation, a search for ukranian troops and hiding for weapons ammunition. and of course, the corpses left behind. you 24 ship with it. this doesn't seem to have been irregular ukrainian soldier. first of all, he had a beard, a multi can he war chevrons as you can clearly see and the servants were removed along with all other insignia and equipment. is the one that will they never do this with regular service? men? my, this is mike. you pretty much the of misty radical nationalists, neo nazis and foreign mercenaries hold a privileged position. they are always better arm, good, better equipped than ukrainian regulars or conscript. so all of these are nato type boy casing. so they're mostly used by natio

against republic, which is now completely under the control of russian lead forces, ortiz, senior correspondent, murat garcia, has found an abundance, apparently of abandoned us, supplied weapons left behind by ukrainian troops. as they fled the front lines of the battle fully, she chanced, the sight of earth from endless explosion. just, just look around at the center was here and all the trees one knocked back by a blast the i can't even imagine. and i know that this was very recent because it's like a sauna here, the, the earth itself, is he still smoldering touching this? this metal, for example, is like touching a hot capital. now this was apparently a ukrainian truck transporting american shelves. m 7777 shells. those are artillery that have been provided for care of. he is one of the shells that was scattered in these blast. there's nothing like this in the ukrainian arsenal or what ukraine inherited from the soviet union. but again, they were apparently hiding in the woods as many of their troops and forces did around this chance. they were apparently spotted and, and struck. we've fired with

stocks of heavy weaponry, imported from western states as well as mines in grain fields. ortiz senior correspond murat gasdio based on the ground, their forests, a warning. some images in his reports are distressed them. kiev has thrown tens of thousands of troops into the fray to hold what it still controls. a defensive lie, now stretches from the town of cbrtc. the solider, and from their cabal moot, and all along, ha tillery batteries. july day and night. ukrainian forces have dug tens of kilometers of trenches, spanning the defensive line to dull rushes edge in artillery. but they wholly protect from conventional fire. the t o s one nicknamed salts at milk or sun blaze in russian is a thorough barrick rock. it's artillery system. each impacts creates an enormous pressure blast wave. the trenches can protect against and these are being used in greater and greater numbers. the decimate ukrainian lines and morale here in the vicinity of the town of solider. the defensive line, east, bending russian forces along with allied units have been able to push enemy troops out of several settlements and stron

you can see footage of some of the desert had trenches. ortiz, senior correspondent, murat gasdio, visited the city. the battle for control of it came to an end getting into least chance is no easy task. ukrainian forces blew every bridge to the north, south, east and west of the city. there was never much concern for civilian well being. this a chance was always looked down upon by ukrainian nationalists as an inferior pro russian city. luncheon hon. i says we're out of the hooked up ranch. another worthless, heartless arrives, one called no one expected ukrainian forces unless he chanced to collapse so quickly and so completely. the 2 months kia promised lucy chanced wouldn't be broken easily. for 2 months. ukrainian troops prepared to mounted the feds that would wolf marry you both. what is entirely apparent is the ukrainian troops prepared to defend leasing tongue for months and months everywhere, all over the city, there are dugouts and trenches flood 1st. they take a lot of work. every major intersection in the city is blocked off like least with rows of vehicles confiscated from civ