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Amount or type of missile strikes that russia has launched on kyiv that you feel would be tied to this repositioning or focus towards the donbas? >> we have seen the ukrainians push back to the west of kyiv where the ukrainians have taken ground. i don't have a list of the towns but we have seen them retake some territories to the west of kyiv. be -- we talked about this a week ago, to the east of kyiv. the russians were on the outskirts of brovary. the ukrainians pushed them back 50 kilometers away from the city. we have seen them do that around kyiv, again to the west and to the east. i don'...

Because i feel like you're describing -- it sounds like you are describing, it's been five weeks, almost five weeks now, and it sounds very much like you're describing a failed military campaign. would you go that far or is it too much? i mean, what we've seen -- what we're seeing now, is it a failure by -- is it a failed military campaign? >> i don't think we're prepared to slap a bumper sticker on this thing right now. i mean, there are still people dying. there's still bombs falling. there's still missiles flying. and there's still give and take on the battlefield. so i don't think we're re...

But i want to say again as i said in my opening statement, northern command stands ready in case there's more need. i mean, we can flex. we didn't even deploy, as i said, all the troops that we had put on readiness to do this mission. we could flex up again if needed. this pandemic as you well know is a living thing and it changes over time. so we're grateful for the ability -- we're grateful for the chance that we had to contribute to this, and we'll stand by and stay ready. and again, at the risk of sounding redundant, i also want to point out the fact that you have more than 10,000 national...

Charmaine, you had the opportunity to speak to a relative and the broad contest where we are as a country with this reckoning with racial justice. >> emmet till's family had to carry around the burden of his lynching for almost 70 years. but america has had to beer the burden of thousands of lynchings across this country. very few of them have ev seen anyone charged or justice dlimpld when i talked to emmet till's cousin with him the night he was kidnapped. he says, certainly it's a moment to clap our hands that justice and representation in terms of fair legislation is important and should be...

Over. >> the repositioning to donbas has not manifested in terms of a marked change in strikes on the capital? is that -- >> i can't quantify it, nancy, over the course of a day or two. i don't have a count of how many strikes are happening on kyiv. and we've -- actually, we've never given you that because we just don't have it. but we do continue to see strikes on kyiv. we're not convinced that the threat to the capital city has been radically diminished here by this proclamation by the russian ministry of defense. barbara, did you have one? no? tara? >> thanks. could you give us a sense of i...