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00:00 is a city that has seen deadly attacks before, but the brutality of this missile strike has
00:07 shocked people in the city and across the country. In a country that has been at war
00:12 for 15 months now, a missile hit a residential area, hitting a clinic, a medical clinic,
00:20 and a veterinary hospital there. So we know that two people have been confirmed dead.
00:26 They're still searching for others, missing perhaps beneath the rubble, and the regional
00:33 governor has said that at least 30 people were injured. And some of the pictures that
00:37 have been coming out of the destruction are just so shocking, and some of the witness
00:41 accounts. One of those killed was a 69-year-old man who just happened to be in the street
00:46 passing by at the time. Two of those taken to hospital were children, young children
00:51 aged three and six. And from the veterinary hospital, incredibly graphic witness accounts
00:59 coming out of there of the remains of burnt out, burnt, killed animals being carried out
01:05 by the staff. I mean, I apologise for the graphic detail. It is upsetting. But this
01:09 is the reality of these strikes that continue to hit Ukrainian cities, even here in Dnipro
01:16 in central eastern Ukraine, which is around 150, 200 kilometres from the front lines.
01:22 Again, it just shows, as we've been seeing in Kiev, that Russia continuing to strike
01:28 these major population centres, as well as the fighting near the front line, well, it's
01:33 sending a message out that people aren't safe anywhere, any time. President Zelensky said
01:39 that Russian had proved once again they were fighting against everything that is humane
01:44 and honest. And he said again that our time is our people. And basically they're echoing
01:51 his message to the West and the rest of the world that they need more help, more help
01:56 fast to try and fight back.
01:58 Catherine, this morning you were at Bakhmut, near to that place which of course has now
02:03 been occupied by the Russians, if we are to believe what Wagner is saying. Although we
02:08 understand Ukraine still holding on to what's been described as a micro district. You've
02:12 been there. Tell us what the situation is.
02:15 Yeah, it's really unclear what's going on inside the city of Bakhmut itself. I mean,
02:21 Ukrainians have been insisting they still hold a tiny pocket there on the western fringes
02:26 of the town. But I was visiting troops on the flanks of Bakhmut city to the south, who
02:33 are mounting a counter offensive, slowly but surely, they say. They say they're taking
02:38 around back around 150 metres a day over the past month. They say they've advanced by around
02:43 a kilometre. So slow progress there. But they're basically at full swing. They're not taking
02:49 leave from the front line. They're carrying on. I was with a mortar unit who were targeting
02:55 Russian troops, they said, early in the morning, just after dawn, as the Russians, they'd spotted
03:01 by drone, digging trenches there around Bakhmut, trying to reinforce their position there.
03:07 So while the battle in the city looks like it has been particularly brutal and drawing
03:13 to a close for now, the battle on the outskirts of Bakhmut is continuing. And when we asked
03:19 those troops there what they thought about this much speculated about Ukrainian counter
03:24 offensive, they said, well, it's already started. We're already part of it. And they think it's
03:28 going to be a series of small pushes like they're doing with reinforced weaponry, with
03:34 new weapons from the West, new weapons being produced by Ukraine that they were using.
03:38 They were actually quite optimistic, which might be surprising, you think, given the
03:41 situation in Bakhmut. But for them, they say that this offensive is already ongoing and
03:47 it's going to be in small pushes in places around the front line.