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On the 11th day of the Ukrainian incursion into Russia, CNN journalists were able to cross the border and film footage. Document.
Accompanied by soldiers, American journalists from CNN entered Sudja, a Russian town located ten kilometers from the border, now occupied by the Ukrainian army.The Russians are trying to fight back, but they just can’t.“, explains an American journalist. Around him, there are destroyed buildings, traces of the fighting that allowed Ukraine, in just a few days, to take control of the city.
“Obviously there are still fights“, the journalist testifies, under the noise of bombs. Here, the streets are almost deserted. Most of the inhabitants have fled the fighting, and those who remain live in the basements of their buildings. The Ukrainian incursion was rapid, because Russia did not expect such an attack on its soil, the first since the Second World War. As a result, Russian soldiers had to flee Sudja.