that we were filming and the irpin mayor showed up with ukrainian special forces and he said they were looking for possible russian soldiers in civilian clothes who might still be in that area and still obviously pose a threat. it is extremely dangerous. we saw plumes of smoke from artillery shells the entire time that we were there. so the russians, while they have been pushed out of irpin are still shelling irpin. there are some who believe that might be because the russians obviously might be covering some sort of withdrawal that they're conducting, but they might be conducting some sort of scorched earth policy. jake. >> fred, a u.s. defense official says russia is focusing its strikes on four areas, one of them is kyiv. since russia announced its so-called drawdown, have you seen even more bombing? >> reporter: it's interesting because the last couple of days we have seen more shelling going on, especially last night for a very long time. there was a huge amount of bombardment. and before we managed to get into irpin today, we actually