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Displaced families some at no cost or discounted rates. they found refuge after russian forces found safe harbor. >> you hear shells blowing up, loath of bombardment. >> how did you feel when you arrived? >> when you look at these mountains and the news, it seems like not real. >> and youre here, youre safe, feel kind of guilty because in the beginning i left my family there. >> reporter: after a terrifying week, mom and daughter finally squeezed on to a train out of embattled kyiv but where to ...

Theyre shelling these places. theyre taking places under artillery shelling, rocket shelling. there were a bunch of destroyed houses and of course, as you can imagine for the people that remain, one third of the citizens up there, its absolutely unsafe to be there. the ukrainian military says about kyiv, they are making headway and pushing russian forces back. their leadership understands the gains theyve made are still fragile because of course the russian military is extremely dangerous and ha...

After russia said it would scale back its military operations there and in kyiv. chernihivs mayor says instepped the russian bombardment actually escalated. >> translator: they have increased the intensity of strikes. today weve had a colossal mortar attack on the center of chernihiv. whenever russia says something this needs to be checked carefully. russia is deliberately exterminating civilians. >> and this new video just in shows at least two military strikes have heavily damaged a red cross ...

Did the u.s. overestimate russias combat readiness? >> reporter: thats a key question now. is this an intelligence failure but perhaps an intelligence failure that works to ukraines advantage in these horrifying circumstances? the russians far from ten feet tall, far from achieving their objectives of taking kyiv, of taking any major population centers as weve heard. putin may not be told the truth from his generals. more critically underestimating the ability of ukraine forces and the people of...

Donbas and i dont think it is now. i think here we have the kremlin is creating a number of options for president putin, creating this groundwork or narrative of victory that they could use as a face-saving way out of the conflict at a later date. i just dont think were there yet, and so i think its too soon. it is possible that those forces that are redeployed to the donbas can be used to engage a large portion of ukrainian forces that are in the region. i believe up to a third of ukrainian for...

Offensive saying they were never going to attack kyiv. they put up a lot of forces there to tie down the ukrainian forces so they could have an easier fight. theres a serpent of lies. at the center president putin has been in power for 20 years, more than 20 years now, 22. he is now president until 2036. he has that tight inner circle. he has cut himself off from critical analysis. there arent people around him who will tell him the truth and hes gone in blind. his military -- be that his milita...

Then you just have to look at the russian mentality and russian history traditionally as soon as someone in russia loses the war and stand up in a difficult situation that means loss for them. at the moment, the situation in ukraine is not black and white and it is only if putin manages to actually claim that he has crimea and donetsk and also to assure that ukraine declares their neutralitiy and this will be enough for the russians and when he has his man in kyiv and when zelenskyy is out of th...