In a CNN exclusive,
Ukrainian resistance
fighters are revealing how they helped
drive Russian forces
out of the southern city of person.
CNN senior international correspondent
Sam Kiley is on the scene for us tonight.
Sam, this is remarkable.
These civilians risking their own lives
to help free their city
that was held by Russian forces
Yeah, we've seen in the past
the role played by collaborators
here, spies for Russia inside Ukraine.
Frequently arrested,
calling in airstrikes,
giving coordinates.
But of course,
the same thing is going on in
occupied territory,
particularly in the city of Carcassonne.
Alex,
which was a hotbed of resistance,
the first and only city captured.
That was a regional capital
captured by Russia back in March.
And from day one, the resistance started
getting doing its work, and many of them
were self-starters.
Take a look again. One
actually killed twice
while he was still a teenager.
If I'm the guy, he stops to pee,
so I'm having a pee.
And then what do you do from
oh, god,
I got a chill in
He says he left his victim to bleed
on the grass.
In the pitch, dark arches struck again.
Moments later,
another drunk Russian soldier
took another throat cut.
He acted alone,
but now he was one of Carson's
resistance fighters.
And you believe beyond that,
they were wasted.
It had only been a few days
since they entered the city.
I finished the first one immediately
and then caught up with the other one
and killed him on the spot.
I threw away the knife
and the jacket covered with blood
and just left.
Archie was only 19
when the Russians
captured his city in March with a friend.
He says he drove around the city
gathering intelligence
to send to Ukraine's armed forces
because the food is
situated.
At least ten Russians were slaughtered
every night.
I wasn't the only one in here,
so there were a lot of athletic
and clever partizan guys.
For eight months,
Ukrainian partizans
waged a psychological war
against the occupiers
and their collaborators
targeting Ukrainians
who took top posts handed out by Russia
to resolve issue
as a result of a sneaky terrorist attack.
Today, our colleague
my friend Dimitri Lukashenko has died.
Streams of himself
would die
in the final days of Russia's
occupation of Crescent City,
which ended three weeks ago
That person was the only regional capital
to fall to Russia,
but its population
made sure that the invaders
were unwelcome from the start.
That's incoming.
Within the last hour
or so that we've been here in person,
there's been a constant
shelling backwards and forwards.
Almost all of that
shelling will ultimately rely
on somebody on the ground
telling the gunner
where to drop those bombs
If I was a
young father,
this warehouse is wrecked because of him.
It was scary.
And they said
as the Russian military
kept here
around 20 to 30 vehicles,
there were armored trucks, Abkhaz
and the Russians lived here.
I was passing by this place
and I saw all the vehicles
he communicated on his phone up
with his handler codename the Smoke.
Tom Udall. Tom Udall.
I turned on the camera
and pointed it at the building
and I was just walking
and talking on the phone
and the camera was filming.
I deleted the video, of course,
because if they would stop me somewhere
and check my videos and pictures,
there'd be questions.
Less than a day later, he says.
Russian vehicles were a mangled mess
as Ukraine rained missiles down
on the newly identified target.
It was a crucial step
in destroying Russia's capacity
to hold on to the city.
With the Russians
now massed on the eastern side
of the de Dnipro River.
They're close
and still controls 60% of the province
which they claim is now part of Russia.
No doubt
there are many Ukrainians among them
who were also prepared
to prove them wrong
and to kill
Do you feel sorry for the guys
who killed the two?
I think we have
no
you.
So what we're now experiencing
across the country,
though, is cruise missile strikes.
The government
saying more than 70
have once again
attacked the critical
national infrastructure.
The electrical system
here in river three,
as it is
across much of the country has once again
been destroyed
in precision strikes by the Russians
as it gets colder and colder in Ukraine.
Sam Kiley,
thank you so much for that report.
Really appreciate it.
Joining us now is CNN military analyst,
retired General Wesley Clark.
General Clark,
thank you so much
for joining us this evening.
I want to get to
what Sandwich is talking about there,
this wave of strikes all across Ukraine.
This latest
barrage salvo killing seven around Kiev
and then a newborn in a maternity
ward down
in this Aparicio region, Ukraine.
It appears
is essentially being forced
to fight
on two fronts,
defending its civilian infrastructure
while also fighting on the front lines
in the east and the south.
Is that how you see it?
That's the way I see it.
And it's
all part of Putin's strategy now.
Putin is willing to have a cease fire
and this is part of the strategy.
So he's pulled back out of coercion.
You don't hear any more
talk about nuclear right now is pummeling
the civilian population
trying to make it
as unpleasant as possible?
What he'd really like is a ceasefire
so he can rebuild his forces
and then continue the attack.
There are rumblings of people in the West
who say,
well, maybe we should have a cease fire.
It's so terrible.
The Ukrainians don't want it
because they know what it means.
There have been ceasefires.
This war has gone on for eight years.
And Putin
hasn't given up his intent
to conquer all of Ukraine.
So right now, the Ukrainian forces
still have the momentum.
They need to be reinforced
first while we're doing everything we can
to help
the Ukrainians
rebuild their infrastructure
and defend against these cruise
missile attacks.
These strikes all across the country.
Do you see this
as Putin acknowledging that his troops
can't make any progress,
that he's just trying
to cripple the country?
Putin is not going to acknowledge this.
What he's what he's doing is
he is signaling.
And there have been some discussions
apparently between American officials
and Russian officials.
So he's
signaling by the heavy bombardment
in Donbas and by these strikes on
the infrastructure he's not giving in.
He's going to fight, fight, fight
while he tries
to get the best diplomatic deal he can.
So this is the Russian strategy
the Ukrainian strategy is
we're going after those.
We're going to push them right
out of the country.
And and I think the majority
of the American people realize
the only real solution to this
is to push the Russians
out of the country with military power.
The Ukrainians giving no indication
they plan to sit down and negotiate
anytime soon.
General Wesley Clark,
we have to leave it there.
Thank you so much for joining us
this evening. Happy Thanksgiving.
Thank you.