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And bases in crimea. they are relying on those and so kherson is not that far from crimea. the lines of communication are still intact, but what we are told is they may, in fact, leave kherson or just hold it, not spend a lot of effort in kherson and move down on odesa by land, not necessarily by sea. >> john: one area we are seeing a lot of death and destruction, northwest of kyiv. we have seen apartment buildings reduced almost to are you able, uninhabitable, to bring the resupply lines and ar...

Close to the border and as far as i can tell and others can tell at the moment, there is no real solid evidence to back up the russian claim that any of the troops are heading home. let us look specifically at this picture that the russian mod release, you and the wider open source community have been analysing this, can you talk us through it? they claimed to show russian troops moving away from the training grounds and boarding trains and heading home towards their bases. a lot of analysts hav...

What does that mean? . >> well, again, if you try to get into the head of putin, what he has now is a permanent presence in belarus. these are russian forces that are not routinely deployed there. but in his mind, he sees this as analogous to nato, u.s. forces, other nato partners positioning their forces in poland. we have a u.s. corps forward deploy in poland. we have exercises routinely in romania, hungary. training exercises. putin is conducting operations in belarus. he sees this as his rig...

These reports from kyiv. drills in belarus were meant these drills in belarus were meant to end with russian tanks rolling back to their bases. that all this firepower is now staying put, indefinitely. not farfrom ukraines border. in a crisis that is all about signally —— signalling, this is russia refusing to de—escalate. lets take a moment to understand the significance of what we are talking about. it has been over 70 years and through those 70 years, as i said yesterday, there has been...

Concerned about where this goes next. thats why hes going to raise the ante on the violence. one thing that would allow him to turn to his own military, his own people would be to say i told you so. this is a defensive war to stop ukraine from becoming part of nato. natos coming for our borders, theyre killing our men and destroying our bases. i think at this point he may even try to draw the foul and try to provoke nato in the coming days or weeks >> tom, given that argument, given that lens, i...

The moment with a good degree of caution. they are targeting military bases and airbases. this caution. they are targeting military bases and airbases.— bases and airbases. this is in the east of the _ bases and airbases. this is in the east of the country, _ bases and airbases. this is in the east of the country, it _ bases and airbases. this is in the east of the country, it is - bases and airbases. this is in the east of the country, it is a - east of the country, it is a military airport, ...

Western part of the country are just the air strikes right on the edges of town. >> bill: what are the details about these men ages 18-60 told to stay within the borders of the country. is that the case? >> it really is remarkable. as the attack is coming from three sides from the north, east and south, that leaves open a retreat point from the west and that has people piling up at the polish border. these young fighting men are learning they cant go with your family. if you are old in you have ...

The border of ukraine. the interesting thing about this is the airbase was as far as we could tell, completely unused prior to these exercises. looking at the satellite imagery,, the imagery, the green and pink kind of pixels, the more intense they are, it shows how urban an area is and if youre looking at a military base, for example, if an area was dark and the next imagery it was very colourful, you can make a safe assumption that something is awry at that pace. it is difficult to say what, b...

U.s. officials are also watching the construction of a new bridge, what appears to be a pontoon bridge in a key area of belarus less than four miles from the ukrainian border. overnight, russias ministry of defense released new video insisting units from their southern and western military districts have completed combat training exercises and are returning home to their bases. >> jim sciutto begins our coverage live on the ground in kyiv. jim, the united states says the russians are adding forc...

Forceful capture of donbas. the president of ukraine volodymyr zelensky will soon give an order to defend the territory. >> reporter: it turns out he recorded the video two days ago. its unclear why it was released now. he urges civilians to leave to escape the onslaught. and within a few minutes a video shows children lined up outside an orphanage allegedly to be whisked away to safety in russia. it all looks very choreographed, and as with so much in this crisis very unclear. the russian defen...