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Lead-up to russia s invasion demonstrated that the kremlin s real intent was to overthrow the democratically elected government and to occupy or annex large portions of ukraine. the posture of russian forces around kyiv along much of the black and the azov sea coast and central and northeast ukraine indicates the geographic scale of this ambition. russia s intent wanted to create people s republics as displayed recently in the khersan pro tense. kyiv and the capitol city was a key objective for the russians. so we ought not be fooling and nobody should be fooling ourselves by the kremlin s recent claim that it will suddenly just reduce military ....
0 we hand-off to martha. john: did you say something? sandra: we re looking live at the pentagon where we re expecting an update on what the u.s. military will say as their react to vladimir putin and his next move. john: russia saying they re backing off and u.s. officials say don t believe it for a second. good to be with you, sandra. sandra: you too. i m sandra smith. john: and i m john roberts. the story with martha starts right now. martha: thanks. i m martha maccallum at fox news head quarters in new york. here s the story. a lot is moving at this hour. a lot of updates from the pentagon and the white house. those are moments away. the white house obviously a lot of editorials today questioning the president s abilities and it s coming from the wall street journal, the washington post and coming under continued scrutiny. this photo shows him holding verbatim notes on how to answer the regime change blush. and russians is they re backing off in kyiv. president ze ....