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Let me go back over here. david. >> as i understand military tactics, when you retreat you leave enough forces in place to cover the retreat. so are the movements that you're seeing so far, are they consistent with what a retreat from kyiv would look like? and what would it take to convince the pentagon that russia had given up on its intent to seize kyiv? >> so too soon to tell on the first question, david. again, this is only hours old here that the russians made this announcement, and we've only seen very small numbers of troops actually just begin to move away from kyiv. so way too soon to...

Doing with they're doing is consolidating their positions. some of their units are isolated and have a way forward and they're withdrawing a number have been taken out of profit -- compact altogether. i think what we can believe is the fact that the main effort of their campaign is now switching from the failed rapid strike to affect regime change by capturing kyiv. and they're switching it to the donbas. it's unsurprising given since 2014 they've been in -- to try to control of them. i think they are now realizing the difficult situation they are in. i think they are realizing the poor perfor...

For the last eight years. we have seen the intenity pick up. where that goes, we don't know. we've seen the ukrainians be just as active in the donbas as trying to push back on the russias there. >> can you get us a sense that they put the bulk of their forces against kyiv or -- >> i don't want to give you a breakdown here. we've been talking about a month for the three main axis of approach by the russians. north, northeast, kyiv, kharkiv, all really -- that whole northern grouping was designed against the capitol city. the effort to cut off kyiv. the east, the donbas, which again has been a ...

That's about the most i can give you. i don't have any information on their resupply efforts for troops that are still arrayed against kyiv. i would remind that the russians still have a significant majority of their assembled combat power to include logistics and sustainment capability available to them inside ukraine. >> just trying to understand something. if you're talking about a small number, do you think just what you're seeing now or do you think there's going to be more numbers? because you're saying they might be pulling out these forces to redeploy somewhere else. if they're small n...

To this repositioning? or focused toward the donbas. >> we have seen the ukrainians push back around kyiv, particularly in suburbs to the west of kyiv where the ukrainians have retaken ground. i don't have a list of the towns, but we have seen them retake some territory to the west of kyiv. and as you saw, we talked about this not about a week ago, to the east of kyiv where the russians were on the outskirts of brovari and the ukrainians pushed them back to almost more than 50 kilometers away from the city. so we have seen them do that around kyiv, again, to the west and to the east. i don't h...