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Intensity pick up. and again, where that goes we don't know. we've also seen the ukrainians be just as active in the donbas in trying to push back on the russians there. >> can you give us a sense of did they put the bulk of their forces against kyiv or did they -- >> again, i don't want to give you a breakdown here. we have been talking now for a month about sort of three main axes of approach by the russians, right? north and northeast, kyiv, chernihiv and kharkiv, all really -- that whole northern grouping was really designed against the capital city. the effort to cut off kyiv. then the ea...

Much of a game-changer is that potentially? >> that is significant. the russian military knows that they're not able to advance and take kyiv or kharkiv or odesa or these plays that they've been wanting to take. they know they won't make that now. that is significant. they're going to have to regroup in the east and decide what to do from there. this does not mean that they will stop shelling the cities and stop shelling civilians. they will probably continue to do that. in terms of the ground forces, they know they need to fall back around recover. i think the russian military is coming to th...

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 graveyard, one of the many graveyards of russian hopes for capturing kyiv. it was early in the war, they were advancing. and then the ambush happened. panic must have ensued. look how this ar...

You start to move back, as you start to, quote unquote, withdraw, that becomes a command and control challenge and the russians have shown for a month that they're having significant problems when it comes to command and control. >> ali arouzi, let me go to you, live on the ground there in ukraine, for your perspective. >> well, as we heard from a top russian investigator, he said that a cease-fire doesn't mean a sxal back of their actions. the russians said today that they're going to dramatically reduce their military operations around kyiv, around kharkiv -- around chernihiv. and we're seei...

Not to lay out russian operations. it 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 trooped are arrayed 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 have 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're seeing, we'll do that we have seen even before the russians said that they were going to prioritize ...