400 russian attacks, russian rocket attacks in the last 24 hours and of course, we re also seeing a withdrawal of russian forces from the area of kyiv and chernihiv in the north as well. jens stoltenberg, the nato secretary general is the latest secretary general to make the point this isn t a withdrawal, it s a repositioning. russia is set to consolidate operations and a real fear about what sort of suffering that will cause particularly for the civilian population. in the meantime, some support for the u.s. intelligence assessment that vladimir putin isn t particularly well informed about what s been happening here but during the war, and in the lead-up, these are comments that came from a british intelligence chief. take a listen now to the head of the government s, the british government s electronic surveillance operation. he made his comments a little earlier in australia, take a look.
pentagon saying don t be fooled. this isn t a withdrawal. this is a redeployment. meanwhile president zelenskyy in an address last night to his country had this to say. listen. yes. we can call the signals we hear positive but they do not drown out the blows of russian shells. of course we see all the risks. to his point, residents in kyiv reported some of the heaviest shelling to date. and while russian forces continue to pulverize the cities in the south and east you see the photos showing devastation in mariupol. that city reduced to rubble. in mykolaiv a striking a government building killing 14 and injuring 36 others. meanwhile ukrainian offensives having some successes push back in irpin and out east about 200 miles east of the kyiv capital in chernihiv.