ukraine today. now those forces that may be moving back up into belarus to the north, the sense is, just as ivan was saying, they may be moving back up there to refit, to resupply and then turn around and move back down into southeastern ukraine, into the donbas region, that has been a russian priority now for so long. this is where there are some ukraine forces the russians hope to cut them off so those ukraine forces can't move west and help their colleagues in their fight. the russians want to get into donbas, is the u.s. view, cut off the ukrainians and then try and take control of the region. any notion this is scaling back is not something the pentagon is willing to endorse. >> and here we are with this war now past the one month mark. kyiv was expected to fall within days. it still stands and the forces are fighting with a lot strength.