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Successfully shot down those missiles using air defense systems in this region. but lviv not the only area that was targeted by russian attacks overnight. we know such an attack took place in a southeastern district of the city of kyiv with the mayor saying at least one person was killed, several others injured when a russian attack damaged buildings in this southeastern district of the city with rescue workers continuing to be on scene throughout saturday afternoon as officials work to get a better sense of the overall situation. also getting information about the russian build up, the ukrain...

Something. thank you very much. john. >> john: let's bring in dan hoffman, so let's first of all talk big picture. this is really interesting. this a week ago was all red. it's all blue now. this was all red coming into here and now it's nothing, and a lot of blue over here as well. kharkiv, still being shelled, is basically almost under ukrainian control. what happened to all these russian forces in here? >> ukraine has fought back and consolidated their gains around kyiv and forced russia to withdraw the 20 battalion groups to belarus to be resupplied and refitted. expectation they will go t...

Separatists backed by moscow have been fighting here for eight years leaving villages largely empty, destroyed and lifeless. ukrainians call these ghost villages, and the only sound you hear are all the stray dogs that have moved in. but they fear what could be coming may be far worse. russia's military buildup is accelerating, disguised u.s. officials say, military exercises in the black sea, these firing drills in the baltic sea, and along three sides of the ukrainian border including these forces in new satellite images. a western intelligence official tells nbc news russia has deployed up ...

Military situation right now. these are all the russian forces that are surrounding ukraine on three sides that we have been talking about. but you say we should pay particular focus to the battalion combat groups. what are they and where are they? >> the battalion groups are the most trained professional standard military groups that the russians have. they're up here in belarus. they have now spread from the russian border. they have been conducting more activities down here in crimea, which of course russia annexed in 2014. they seem to be positioning themselves closer and closer to the bor...

Belarus, which can only be construed as preparation for an invasion, and there are more battalion groups being brought closer to the border with ukraine. according to the intelligence that we are seeing, so mixed signals at the moment and all the more reason for us to remain very tough and very united, especially on the economic sanctions. and what we are doing, the uk has been out in the lead for a while, what we are doing is targeting particular russian banks and russian companies, and making sure that we take steps, take even more steps, to unpeeled the facade of russian property holdings, ...