Is the tide turning in Ukraine?
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🗓️ 12 September 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Today, what the sudden retreat of Russian forces in key areas of Ukraine means for the future of the war. Plus, how one Ukrainian mayor is holding onto his city in wartime.
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Over the weekend, Russian soldiers fled their encampments in Zaliznychne, Ukraine. As Ukrainian soldiers poured into the area, Russians dropped their weapons, leaving rifles behind.
The flight of Russians from the village marks a new reality that took the world by surprise; Russian invaders are on the run after invading Ukraine in February. The apparent collapse of Russian forces has caused shock waves in Moscow, while the evidence of Ukrainian gains continues to emerge. Reporter Steve Hendrix on what this means for the future of the war in Ukraine.
As the Ukrainians continue to fight back on the ground, one local politician is doing everything he can to keep his community together. Mykola Khanatov is the mayor of Popasna, a city occupied by Russian forces. Reporter Dalton Bennett documents Khanatov’s commitment to his town during wartime.
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| 0:00.0 | We have a lot of explosions here, some of them rattle the windows. |
| 0:07.8 | You know, you kind of quickly learn the difference here between outgoing and incoming and you |
| 0:13.3 | want to be on the right side of outgoing. |
| 0:16.1 | That's Steve Hendrix. |
| 0:17.8 | Usually he's the Jerusalem bureau chief for the post, but lately he's been covering the |
| 0:23.0 | war in Ukraine. |
| 0:24.8 | He's holed up in a hotel in Harkev right now, and over the weekend he was able to get |
| 0:30.2 | into a town further east. |
| 0:32.5 | The town of Cheygoyev on the edge of Russian occupied territory. |
| 0:37.3 | And we got to this town just about seven hours after its hospital had been bombed. |
| 0:43.1 | It's been, she'll quite a bit in the last several days because of the Ukrainian counteroffensive. |
| 0:50.0 | It's sort of a Russian tactic to really unleash on a lot of these communities as they're |
| 0:56.7 | being pushed back. |
| 0:58.8 | So it was a very strange moment when we got up to this hospital which had had most of |
| 1:02.4 | its one side blown away, every piece of glass in that building was gone. |
| 1:06.6 | We could see patients moving around inside, you know, even though the building had been |
| 1:11.0 | destroyed, some lying on stretchers or gurneys in the hallways. |
| 1:16.2 | But there must have been 100, 200 regular folks from this town around the hospital sweeping |
| 1:24.0 | up glass with the little straw brooms. |
| 1:27.3 | Men were, you know, using their own power tools, electric tools to start replacing doors |
| 1:33.7 | and windows. |
| 1:34.7 | It was quite remarkable aftermath for a bombing. |
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