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Retreat or even a withdrawal, saying very clearly nobody should be in his words fooling ourselves about this claim of reducing attacks. right? or reducing the military presence there. he said we should be prepared to watch for a major offensive against other areas of ukraine and that this does not mean the threat to kyiv is over. concerned that russia could still inflict massive brutality. still too early to judge now what additional actions russia may take. and they're not convinced that the threat to the ukrainian capital has been radically diminished. i want to bring in now a couple of folk...

A defensive posture, not offensive because they're getting beat back by the ukrainians who they had no idea that they could fight like this. they were trained by the green berets and the skilled fighting force. while it looks like it could be a retreat, martha and they're going to reposition and reconstitute in the east in donbas to mariupol, to form the land bridge to crimea to set themselves up for negotiation the ukrainians to claim legitimacy to that area. we still have to get the anti-missile technology weapons systems in. to this date, we have yet to get enough and they have a few left. ...

It's not prudent for me to do it and we don't have exact details of where every battalion tactical group is. i couldn't tell you how many troops are arrayed against kyiv versus kharkiv and chernihiv and certainly in the donbas. what i can tell you is the vast majority of the assembled force that we saw against kyiv is still there. we've only seen a small number begin to move away from kyiv, mostly to the north. we'll watch this over the course of the coming days and to the degree we can describe for you what we've seen we'll do that. we have seen even before the russians said that they were go...

Did in mariupol. they've enpsychiatry v circled that city, using starvation tactics. people are out of water, gas, electricity. they're running on food. so it doesn't show a scaleback there. as secretary blinken said, what the russians say and what they do are two very different things. halle, earlier in the week we heard from a top russian general saying the first part of what they call the special military operation was completed and they're going to concentrate on the donbas area. well, since he said that they haven't just concentrated on the donbas area. they're still hitting a lot of plac...

About the conditions that led to that decision? the general conditions that led to the decision to end that. >> to end the support? we were doing this in support of fema. and the interagency effort. so we took our guidance from the need out there by fema. >> a reduction in -- >> yeah. the conditions are better in the country and the need for -- remember, what we were doing was taking the pressure off civilian practitioners so they could do the treatment. most of our medical personnel that were operating in hospitals were not really doing covid treatment. they were taking the pressure off other...