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>> cal perry as always my friend great reporting. please stay safe. all right, today's strikes in lviv contradicting what at least one russian officials calls a move wayfair from a countrywide attack on ukraine to focus on the, quote, complete liberation of the donbas region that the kremlin nounlzed asset a strategy shift in the region as losses are piling up. joining me now with his insight on the strategy shift is andriy, former ukraine defense minister. andriy thank you for joining us on this. we appreciate it. i first want to talk about the incredible success we've seen from ukrainian f...

Information. >> reporter: yeah, wolf, we've seen for weeks what appeared to be russian movement toward trying to encircle the ukrainian capital of kyiv. and perhaps take the city itself. it is what u.s. officials were looking at in their intelligence before the invasion even began. with fierce fighting, at this point in time a senior u.s. defense official said the russians are digging into defensive positions in the outskirts of the city. they've shown no interest in moving forward toward the city at the current standpoint. they also seem to be focusing most of their interests on the eastern p...

Lviv as it appears to be a huge strategy shift for the russian military and the ukrainian city of lviv were millions of internally displaced ukrainians are hiding out fearfully right now. we are talking about 2 million at last check from the united nations that have moved from central and eastern ukraine into the western city of lviv. basically hiding out there. wondering if they should cross the border. now they might actually make the decision to cross the border because we are seeing this attack just happened a few moments ago. the president today didn't get to meet with the refugees. final...

And does that mean, early on in this war, in this invasion, there was a lot of talk that odesa would be a key prize for the russian forces. that would essentially make ukraine a landlocked country. soap there's been a great deal of focus, fortification all around the city, even as the city kind of goes about its daily business. so because of what is happening in those troop movements and the strategy shift, apparently by russia, many people here, john, anxiously watching what that will mean and what the timeline of all of this will be in the days if not weeks ahead. >> ed lavandera live for us...

To the north first. so that could be case. very hard to tell at this point in time, wolf. >> fred, stay safe over. there we'll be in tough. earlier in the day, u.s. intelligence officials were calling talk of a russian pullback major strategy shift. meanwhile, the white house and pentagon taking more of a wait and see attitude. let's get some perspective from not one but two former nato supreme allied commanders. wesley clark and philip reid. thank you for joining us. general clark, what are we seeing right now? are russian troops actually pulling back altogether? are they focusing to the east...