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"It’s going to be a long and hard war and we need to get ready for that," one soldier said. No movie can capture the sweat, blood, pain and tears, said Serhiy. "The scariest things you can imagine and can’t imagine, you find here," Serhiy, a commander of Ukraine's 3rd Assault Brigade, added. Amid the destroyed villages and desolate landscape in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian forces are slowly advancing, inch by bloody inch. It was troops from the 3rd Assault Brigade who spearheaded the final stages of a monthlong operation to recapture the ruined village of Andriivka this month. The battles in eastern Ukraine are "a living hell," according to Victoria Torri, a 23-year-old combat medic in the region who only 10 months ago was working as an investment banker in New York. "You lose someone you know every single day," she told ABC News, describing the Russian enemy as "a living evil" which is "much bigger than you and has unlimited res...

Palestinians in Gaza spent the night in pitch darkness, surrounded by the ruins of pulverized neighborhoods JERUSALEM -- Palestinians in Gaza lined up outside bakeries on Thursday after spending the night in pitch darkness surrounded by the ruins of pulverized neighborhoods, as Israel launched new air strike s and said it was preparing for a possible ground invasion. International aid groups warned that deaths in Gaza could accelerate as Israel prevents delivery of supplies. The war, which was ignited by a bloody and wide-ranging Hamas attack into Israel, has already claimed at least 2,400 lives on both sides. Lt. Col. Richard Hecht, an Israeli military spokesman, told reporters Thursday that forces “are preparing for a ground maneuver if decided," but that the political leadership has not yet ordered one. A ground offensive in Gaza, the first since the 2014 war, would likely bring even higher casualties on both sides in brutal house-to-house fighting. In Gaza, Palestinians flee...

Makeshift military camps are being set up everywhere. SHTULA, ISRAEL -- Ora Hatan is gesturing out from her balcony toward the Lebanese border, where the Iranian-backed militant group is launching anti-tank missiles toward Israeli communities. "Behind that wall is Hezbollah," she says over the constant sound of explosions. There are intense exchanges of fire here every day. My conversation with Hatan is frequently interrupted by the thuds of outgoing and incoming fire. This is happening as Israel escalates its offensive in Gaza following the Oct. 7 terrorist attack, with Hezbollah increasing its attacks on Israeli targets. “We need to wipe out Hezbollah; we can’t live like this," she says, hugging her 10-year-old son, Ya’ir. As we drive along the winding roads of Northern Israel’s roughly 80-mile border with Lebanon, we see empty house after empty house. These north ern border communities are now ghost towns. Thousands of people fled in fear. Government officials have w...