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Next, let's take a look at the news from Ukraine where gunshots do not stop even in the New Year.

It is said that more than sixty Russian soldiers were killed as Ukraine counterattacked while Russia was bombarding it every day.



Correspondent Kwak Sang-eun, who is on the field, heard the stories of soldiers and residents on the front line.



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A building hit by a missile fired by the Ukrainian military was destroyed beyond recognition.



The bombed building was a school building used by Russian forces as temporary accommodation in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine.



The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that 63 soldiers were killed, but there are also observations that the number of casualties may reach hundreds.



I heard the story of Oleksandr, a senior Ukrainian military officer fighting in the eastern frontline, in a bloody vicious cycle where air strikes on one side lead to retaliatory air strikes on the other side.



During the non-operational period, he took time for an interview. He said that even though the war seems to be at a stalemate in the winter, fierce local warfare is taking place every day on the front lines.



The Ukrainian military's difficulty was the lack of long-range weapons.



[Olexandr/Ukrainian Army Officer: The enemy is bombarding our camp from Russian territory every day, and the difficult thing is that we cannot counterattack into Russian territory.]



Russia is also concerned about increasing the use of prohibited weapons such as cluster bombs on the front .

It is a passage.



In particular, it was reported that in the last 2-3 years, Russia has been producing more improved banned weapons.



[Olexandr/Ukrainian Army Officer: I am concerned that the Russian army is increasing the frequency of using new weapons banned from use in modern warfare.]



Alona, ​​who escaped Kherson City, which was occupied by the Russian army, says that life in the battlefield was a nightmare.



[Citizens escaping from Alona/Kherson: I almost collided with a burning car where some of the bodies of Russian soldiers were abandoned on the street.]



It was only after we gave 4,000 dollars to a broker with a line with the Russian army and 5 million won of our money. I was able to get out of Kherson on the 'escape bus'.



$4,000 is a lot of money, equivalent to the average Ukrainian salary, but he escaped for his 14-year-old son.



[Citizens escaping Alona/Kherson: (Pro-Russian provincial government) said that if I didn't send my child to a Russian school, I was afraid that custody would be taken away.] In



the 11th month of the war, the number of Ukrainian soldiers killed was up to 100,000, and the number of civilian victims It is estimated to number 18,000.



Some predict that truce negotiations may begin this summer, but there are also observations that Russia, which has reorganized its battle lines, will launch a counterattack sooner or later.



In a war with no promise, both soldiers on the front lines and civilians who have left the country have one wish.



[Olexandr/Ukrainian Army Officer: I want to return to my hometown where I live without getting hurt and regain peace.]



(Video coverage: Sinae Kim, Editing: Byungjik Kim)