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You will not see it very well. there is a lot of smoke to the horizon there. if you look past this apartment complex, it's pretty close shells are outgoing or impacting. rocket fire out not too close. but we are hearing impact on a constant basis. what you are seeing is the battle of kyiv unfolding in this area with this rocket landing here. and certainly the battle going on not too far from where we are right now. as you have noted, john, that battle, the russians appear to not be making very much e headway at the moment. it is very difficult for them. and one of the things the u.s. says they...

Surround the city, that did not happen. kharkiv, also tried to surround that, that did not happen. i believe one of their initial goals was to go to the city of dnipro and that did not happen. they're threatening it from the air and with standoff weapons but they're not threatening it with troops on the ground. they did achieve some of their objectives in this area right in the southeast along the sea. they were able to do some of that and you mention kherson. and it's pretty clear that city right now is actually a contested city and also where one of the russian generals was apparently killed...

Square. there's still a tank barrier setup there and of course check points around the city. there did seem to be few people on the streets, coffee shops opening not just yet but there are people coming back out. and you can feel there are people who believe they have that little room to breathe. you were alluding to the fact the russians are still using these standoff weapons as the u.s. calls them, longer range weapons. there was of course that attack on the fuel depot that took place just to the south of kyiv the russians say they conducted with a caliber use missile. and we did have air-ra...

Is trying to separate them a little bit as well. and i think wone of the concern is that that message would be lost and it is more about the president versus president putin. >> and just as president biden was walking out to deliver this major speech, the mayor of lviv in western ukraine confirmed another strike on the city just about 60 miles from the polish border. so is the sense that putin is trying to send a message? >> i think that there certainly might have been a message in that that airstrike was very far to the west of the country and obviously the u.s. president was in a neighboring...

There's been a lot more activity, exponentially more activity over the last several days. ironically, you've been reporting that some people are starting to return to kyiv because they get the sense that it may be at least moderately safer day by day than it was a few days ago. >> reporter: that's absolutely right. of course that has to do with the fact that the russian army is being pushed back by ukrainian forces around the capital of kyiv. i think also the situation that don is in right now, that fire you're seeing there, certainly also plays into the situation that we have right here, beca...