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Unsettled. listen to what they said to us. a sunny saturday in the western ukrainian city of lviv. all seems calm but war is feared coming this way. sandbagged buildings, sheet metal protecting windows, the ukrainian flag autographed by combat units. >> very terrible. i dont understand the reason for the invasion. >> reporter: this is the other side of lviv, desperate people hit by russian military, trying to get to peace and freedom. >> what started as disorganized panic is a reasonable system....

Lighting themselves in fighting positions within 15 miles of the center of the capitol age siege continue around that port stiff mariupol hundreds of thousands remain trapped without water food, electricity for days now. here in a funeral for three soldier lost on friday ukrainian now says 1300 have been kill bid the russians. just some of the sights and sowngsdz of the city on edge. take a look. sunny saturday all seems calm but beneath the surface, signs of war feared coming this way. sanction...

Believe russian attacks came from belarus territory on the launch of the war on february 24th. so theyve basically been considering belarus a hostile country, as has the u.s. and european union in imposing sanctions on belarus. i think that some of the reporting we have shows mixed kind of opinions here, where youve got some nato military officials telling cnn that they think its likely belarus will join soon. that we have belarus opposition activists saying that they think that combat units are...

Strong motivation. everybody is very focused and determined. russians have very low motivation. some of them surrenderer. some of them dont know what theyre doing on our land but still, going and committing the orders of putin who is now absolutely sure a war criminal after everything youve shown and weve seen. they are not the power everybody was expecting so they will never win this war and suddenly, in two or three weeks as you already said, it will be much better position for ukraine but onc...

Ukrainian military intelligence believes russias claims theyre really pulling back the forces around kyiv to give peace talks a chance to progress, could you give us an idea of what they are doing, a strategic redeployment or because they have to? because the ukrainians are making them move. >> no one believes it john, it is just a repositioning of forces, getting forces out badly mauled by the ukrainian forces. many of the russian battalions are just shemslls of themselves now, trying to reposi...

Scraping the barrel here to get forces in from georgia and also from eastern russia. and i think theyll be challenged to bring in effective combat units. after all, the first units that arrived in ukraine were supposed to be there very -- arthel: the best of the best, yeah. >> -- and theyve been pushed back. right. heres zelenskyys issue, hes got an opportunity here and listen when he says he wants victory, hes got to martial his forces and reorient them and, certainly, drive these forces out of...

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0 official, i asked him if president putin is directing this himself. and he said yes, that is how it is going. that is not surprising. we know that president putin makes all of the decisions. in the end, he will have had advice from that small clique around him, that ultimately he is the decision-maker. and another element of his televised address, which to reiterate, if russians will be stunned by. waking up and seeing now, another man from that televised address, which is chilling frankly. is...

Cnns nic robertson joins us from moscow this morning. nic, good morning. why would troops leave now after ratcheting up tensions were ukraine? >> reporter: well, russias perspective on this is that all of those troops are not there to ratchet up tensions with ukraine. theyve been there for regular routine military exercises on russias territory, which they say is their prerogative, and is not designed to send, you know, a threatening message to ukraine. so what russia is saying right now is 10,0...

Estimated to be between 70,000 to 100,000 troops relatively close to the borders of ukraine within russia, this reduction of 10,000 includes motorized infantry units, combat units, special forces units, all returned as you say to their normal long-term bases. so, you know, in the context of these talks coming into line now and seeming to be established in terms of this apparent reduction, the white house doesnt confirm that it can see 10,000 troops have gone back to bases, this does seem to meet...