the own line, the highway is a major line of communication between areas they have control of. john: we have seen some gains by ukraine in makariv, and also taken back irpin, to the west of kyiv. taken back bromolia, and the russians said we are going to pull back from kyiv, pull back from chernihiv toward the belarus border but they are also sort of regrouping here in the chernobyl area. so when they say focus on the east, we did not want to go to kyiv, should we believe them? there are a lot of u.s. officials who say it s a rouse, a head fake, don t fall for it. i would not be sitting back thinking it was over if i was a ukrainian. ukrainians have done an