the ukrainian forces that have managed several positions, looping around the side of it and bringing it under attack. obviously, that tactic that the russians have been deploying, putting in as much armor as they could and supplies they could through these transport routes, via this armored column. not working out, perhaps, as well as the plan that they hoped they would. we have seen an upsurge in air strikes taking place around the country and around the city as well as the russian forces sort of reposition, but the strategy is still in place. it is still, as we understand it, to try as much as possible, to encircle the ukrainian capital and to tighten the str stranglehold on it. there have been many instances of civilian residential areas coming into attack. we just heard about the attacks in dnipro and an attack further to the west in a city about 70 miles from the polish border.