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Does that -- i mean, if those numbers continue, does that shape putin? i mean, does that -- does that matter to him? >> oh, no, he doesn't care about lives, but he does care about his popularity and dwindling support for him. if it's 12, 14, 13,000, you have to multiply this number by four or five. and it will tell you to add wounded. and probably many of them can die in hospitals in crimea or belarus. so, the losses on the russian army are absolutely staggered. and that's why all of a sudden we have a general, a deputy, who talked about the change of the strategic goals. it was not putin who ...

These troops won't be dropping their guard. the man in charge of defending the city, colonel general oleksandr sirsky, was handing out promotions and medals today. he's been fighting the russians in eastern ukraine since 2014. now, they're on his doorstep. the russians are four kilometres from here. is it painful for you that they have come so far on this soil? it's painful. especially here, because i fight against russia eight years, during eight years. so i'd like to say, together, we are stronger. and, er, we will...win.

That provide jamming capabilities and they have missiles that can be used to fire at targets that are active that are painting, as we call it, this particular jet or other jets in a package. these navy jets are based on the fa 18, which is the basic airframe we have here. but the jamming pods are very important because what they do is go after enemy radar and they make it hard for the enemy to figure out where ukrainian assets would be at or nato assets would be at. they are a critically important asset. we use them for all combat operations and they could be use for ukraine in this case. >> w...

Objective was to force the whole of ukraine back into russia's orbit. will he really give up on that? steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. since russia began its invasion of ukraine, the capital kyiv, has been a key target. but its forces have not got past the outskirts of the city. now — as you heard there in steve's report — russia says it will drastically reduce its offensive around the capital. the ukrainian general in charge of defending kyiv has told the bbc that russia is suffering heavy losses and can twin. our international correspondent, orla guerin, sent this report from a key fro...

Will drastically reduce attacks around kyiv. these troops won't be dropping their guard. the man in charge of defending the city, colonel general oleksandr sirsky, was handing out promotions and medals today. he's been fighting the russians in eastern ukraine since 2014. now, they're on his doorstep. the russians are four kilometres from here. is it painful for you that they have come so far on this soil? it's painful. especially here, because i fight against russia eight years, during eight years. so i'd like to say, together, we are stronger.