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Welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, im karishma vaswani. the headlines. a glimmer of hope in ukraine — russia says itll scale back military operations around the capital kyiv. the ministry of defence of the russian federation has taken the decision to drastically reduce combat operations in the kyiv and chernihiv areas in order to boost mutual trust. but the us is warning russia still has the capability to do great damage in ukraine. our other main stories. at least five people ...

Outstanding job, and the fact they can take back the areas the russians have been in is a major contribution to the effort to start a counter offensive. when you start on the defense like the ukrainians did, but are able to develop the capability to go into a counter offense and take back land, thats a significant amount of capability and its very disheartening for the russians. nothing worse than extending blood and treasure to further on give it up and lose it. so huge moral impact on the russ...

Helicopters, its extremely significant for several reasons. chief among them is that, first of, all it shows that ukrainians have the capability to go across and do something like this. and take the battle into russian soil. but at the same time, it also challenges russias narrative of the war. fiercely challenges it. the russian propaganda machine has told the russian people and the world that, basically, they are in control. that they have destroyed the ukrainian air forces and the air bases. ...

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Epstein, how do you train peep nel a war zone? >> it is complicated, we need to move between sites just because they will get bombed. for example, we had one training site in central ukraine in the middle of training process, the missiles were inbound, we moved to the bunker and continued training the civilians in the bunker. were joking if it aint raining, we aint training. we continue regardless. >> carley: you are telling people what to do in case of the chemical weapon attack. what if that h...

Costs. it does not want to be accused of directly drawing russian blood. but it is willing to do -- and by the way, the ukrainians are showing themselves, have shown themselves, as cal was reporting there, theyve shown themselves capable of inflicting tremendous damage on the russians with the help of their currently getting, even without the no-fly zone. they seem to be able to push back the russian advance, surround the russians in some parts, sink russian ships, down russian aircraft. i think...

Growlers coming out of wouldby island. its based on constant conversations with our nato allies. >> are those marine nato response force committed or are they just individuals? >> right now these are individual decisions based on avail able capability that we had and in talking to our nato allies. i dont -- as you probably saw in the nato summit, they announced another four battle groups and the nations are filling them out. were leading the one in poland. other nations, france, is leading roman...

With an eye toward i dont -- we dont want an escalation into something that is wider. right now look at what putin -- where hes stuck. could he have ambitions on nato countries on broadening this conflict? i dont think so. keep it inside those confines. give ukraine the capability to defend itself. ultimately hand a big loss to vladimir putin who wont survive it as a leader of russia. the leaders of russia never do when they have battlefield loss. >> martha: thats true. thanks, pete. >> thank yo...

Perfectly with the small, fast moving squads favored by the ukrainians. the weapons are hard to detect and can penetrate positions miles away. several systems of varying size, speed, capability appear to be in use and the united states is committing to boost the ukrainian effort with 100 of those switchblade systems. >> which demonstrates our commitment to sending our most cutting edge systems to ukraine for its defense. >> reporter: these drones arent big but its impact is growing by the day if...

Appears that organized groups of ukrainians with anti-tank missiles and ballistics, often shoulder held, seem to be doing amazing damage against these russian armored corridors. >> senator, im interested to hear you say that you think the intelligence is spot on because i think it was just yesterday when the top u.s. general in europe said something different. said that there was an intelligence gap, sort of alluding to what you said. that the russians were overestimated and the ukrainians were ...