our europe correspondentjenny hill is in moscow for us. good morning. a couple of things to pick up from that report. the ukrainian president talking about slowing the advance, that is obviously the story being told there. i wonder what is being said in moscow alongside conflicting reports of russian casualties. the defence reports of russian casualties. tt2 defence ministry here remains a very upbeat about what it is doing in ukraine. no suggestion it is not going perhaps as well as planned which is the suggestion from the west. it has for the first time released figures about russian casualties. at the weekend you will recall it did for the first time admit there have been casualties but gave no more information. they said last night that nearly 500 russian soldiers have now been killed, nearly 1600 wounded. we have no way to verify those numbers. the west