Ukrainian soldiers leading the 'very intense' counteroffensive say they 'pray to God for more ammunition, weapons and men.'
— Ukraine said it shot down 13 Russian cruise missiles targeting military airfields in the west of the country, hundreds of miles from the grueling front-line battles raging in the east. Those fights, as Ukrainian troops push theirDestroyed vehicles and buildings lined the road as our CBS News team drove toward the town of Velyka Novosilka, right on the front line east of Dnipro. The town itself has been reduced to rubble.
Hans said it has been"very difficult" pushing back Russia's entrenched forces, and"we pray to God for more ammunition, weapons and men." Just down the road, a squad of soldiers were firing mortars at Russian positions. Soldiers on the front call in the coordinates of their next target to Yura and his men, and they unleash another volley of mortars.But the grinding success of Ukraine's counteroffensive along the southern front is being measured in both newly-liberated villages, and marked by roads lined with the bodies of fallen Russian soldiers.
One of the troops pointed to shattered glass and shrapnel damage on one of the hulking armored vehicles,"from shelling and rockets that targeted us," the driver told us.Soldier Oleksii said the Russians' defense had been formidable, and they clearly"know how to fight, but our guys are better."
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