but maybe the most interesting thing to see is not the fact that this place was flattened, but it wasn't flattened into submission. in the capital, monuments are being protected as history is rewritten. because met with the fierce resistance, moscow now says it no longer wants to focus on the capital, but the ukrainians don't believe that. >> we cannot trust them. at the moment, we don't see any withdrawal of russian troops from certain areas of kyiv. >> because you needn't go far from kyiv to see the area around it was in russia's sights until not long ago, and the strategists protecting the capital believe nothing has changed. row hit kachroo, itv news.