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It's really about capabilities and it's based on constant conversations with our nato allies on the eastern flank. >> are those marines nato response force committed or are they just individual -- >> right now these are individual decisions based on available capability that we had and in talking to our nato allies. i don't -- as you probably saw in the nato summit, they announced another four battle groups and i think the nations are still feeling those out. i think we're leading the one in poland. other nations, you've got france i think is leading romania. so they're still filling some of t...

>> thanks. so i'm curious about what senior defense officials told us last week about indications that the russians are being more aggressive in the east. >> martha: watching john kirby at the pentagon. we want reaction from congressman mike mccaul, the top ranking republican on the foreign affairs committee who traveled to the ukrainian border where he met with officials and secretary blinken and refugees there. good to have you with us today. >> thanks, martha. >> martha: interesting. basically john kirby is saying that kyiv was the key military objective and they failed there. but then he a...

Thanks for being here. what do you make of the latest developments in terms of the possible retrenchment in russian soldiers and russian military, maybe pulling back from kyiv. >> this is a cover story by russia. their military didn't go as planned. the ukrainians have wanted the russians to move forward. they're cutting off the supply lines and the russian forces that remain are being targeted and killed. so they're keen to get them out of there, redeploy them and consolidate forces in eastern ukrainian where they have more reliable supply lines. so the russians are trying to use this as a ve...

The road into bucha was littered with war debris. ukraine has saved its capital but russia is much better positioned in the east and south. winning for either side is a long way off. russia's defeat around kyiv may have started on this suburban street in the last few days of februaryjust after the invasion. a long column of russian armour was destroyed as it pushed forward towards the capital. these were elite airborne troops, mostly in armoured vehicles light enough to be carried by aircraft. once again anti—tank weapons and attack drones made them no protection at all. this is the graveyar...

Shifting more eastward and less focused on the city of keith. do we have mike tobin? that's right. well, let's go to my live from livi mike . apologize for taking most of your hit there, but please take it away, sir. well, with ukrainian resistance greater than anyone anticipated ,the russians are now refocusing their operation with a special focus on the eastern part of ukraine . if you look back to what has happened now, the u.s. has stated that the russians are no longer appearing to pursue kyiv as aggressively, certainly not as aggressively as they were and russian armor has been seen digg...