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Although a u.s. defense official said the pentagon sees no indication that belarusian forces are preparing to move in. cnn's international correspondent fred is there. what have you been seeing about this counter offensive? >> reporter: there was a massive battle raging here throughout the course of the day. especially the northern outskirts. we had air raid sirens going off throughout the day and explosions that could be both heard and seen. and as i said, a lot of that concentrated on the northern outskirts of kyiv. specially north western outskirts. that's what you see now. that black smoke...

Russian am babassador kislyak. >> the sanctioned banks very well known there's a long list of banks sanctioned by the u.s. government for the ukraine situation, that's an interesting development to me, why meeting with a sanctioned bank? >> there might be a perfectly proper excuse but why would you meet with a sanctioned bank? let's go live to moscow and bring in cnn's international correspondent fred -- lean back on who exactly this bank is? >> reporter: first of all, good morning, it really is the economic development bank of

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