Judy: As Russian forces battle
for full control of southern
Ukraine, small villages that dot
the landscape have borne the
brunt of the bombardment.
John ray visited one town on the
front line just two miles from
where Russian troops are dug
in.
[Explosions, shouting]
>> This is the rhythm of each
and every day.
It's how they mark time.
In the town where the Russians
measure their progress in
ruinted ho--- ruined homes and
frayed minds.
I this gloom, mental and
-- ludmilla and her friends
have been living for three
months without break.
>> Who asked the Russians to
come here?
What have they come to free us
from, our families, our homes,
our lives?
>> She tells us she has
nowhere else to hide.
How long can you stay?
Until it ends, she says.
For the for suitable future,
Homer's the basement of the
town's hospital.
No running water, no power and
no way to care for patients in
the dark unless they can plug in
this generation.
That too will require nerves of
steel.
How are things in your hospital,
do you have the medicine, power?
>> No, and we have no patients
here at the moment.
[Explosions]
>> You are use to that all day.
All day, every day.
>> Every.
>> He is where the Russians were
stopped in their tracks and now
its people are in the firing
line.
This is an unremarkable town
whose great misfortune is to be
so close to Russians.
They are just two miles down the
road here.
And that means all most every
day for the past three months
it's come under attack.
Elena never imagined her
mother's twilight years would be
spent here in the pitch black.
Of a bunker
she is deaf but she can feel the
bombs land.
She can remember the Nazis, as
you think the Russians are
worse.
>> The Russians know what they
are doing.
It is just they do not care very
much about the consequences.
This enormous crater was once a
simple village home.
And the family who lived here
had written "People" on the
gate.
Humanity is missing wherever you
look.
While the war has turned east,
Ukraine cannot afford to neglect
this long southern flank.
>> They have enough ammunition
for war.
They prepared for this war.
They have enough of everything.
>> Here they need more.
>> We need more.
We did not prepare.
>> In this one small town, 21
civilians have died in the daily
shelling.
It's a collective trauma.
In the attack on the market, she
lived only because a neighbor
pushed her to the floor.
She is still in shock.
[Explosions]
>> The store, unlike west
compartments, soon passes.
-- Unlike Russia's
bombardments, soon passes.
In Thi deadly standoff, it is
the only front that is moving
forward.
Judy: Just wrenching.
John ray with independent
television news.