to understand, a to b there. let me ask you about ukraine s top military officer who said today that russia is changing its military focus to the south and the east and may be trying to divide between the occupied and nonoccupied territories. first of all, are russian forces able to pull this off? we know the russian forces, along with their allies on the ground in donbas, the eastern part of the country, have done this for a number of years, at least tried to occupy space and to carve up bits and pieces of ukraine. what you re hearing is the russians are having to adapt around kyiv and certainly in western parts of ukraine where they re not able to move as freely and certainly haven t been able to occupy space. the question is are the russians as indicated when i the russians themselves trying to concentrate
this is bbc news. welcome if you re watching here in the uk or around the globe. i m geeta guru murthy. our top stories a senior russian defence official signals what could be a major shift in moscow s military focus, east towards the disputed donbas region. western officials see this as an admission of failure so far. president biden has arrived in poland. he s been telling us troops stationed not far from the ukraine border that they re fighting for the freedom of generations still to come. what s at stake is what are your kids and grandkids going to look like in terms of their freedom? and the united states and european union announce a major deal on liquified natural gas in an attempt to reduce europe s reliance on russian energy supplies.
be reasoned with? futile, that president putin cannot be reasoned with? look, what has ha ened be reasoned with? look, what has happened in be reasoned with? look, what has happened in the be reasoned with? look, what has happened in the past be reasoned with? look, what has happened in the past 24 be reasoned with? look, what has happened in the past 24 hours, i be reasoned with? look, what has i happened in the past 24 hours, ben, president putin or the kremlin at least comes out and says we are shifting our military focus to the east, that is where we are going to focus our operations. and then they go and bomb lviv in the west, i think that alone shows that among nato and western nations there is just simply no trust any more in the sincerity at all, or in the world of the russians, president biden said we met, i met and i talked to president putin several times, i assured him that nato was no threat to russia, and yet he lied and he lied about his intentions. so clearly
smith later joining the party circuit with oscar in hand, dancing to one of his own songs. stephanie elam, cnn, hollywood. thanks so much for joining us. ac 360 starts now. good evening. whatever you ll hear tonight or heard over the weekend about russia shifting its military focus to eastern and southeastern ukraine, it might not be as simple as that because there has been shelling overnight in and around kyiv and other attacks in the west. despite news today from irpin s mayor that his suburban town had been liberated, the sight of residents being helped out of what the mayor said could soon become a combat zone again was sobering. the same could be said for ukraine s general staff, the defenses within mariupol continue to hold because this is mariupol. look at that. ukrainian officials now say 90% of the city s residential buildings have been damaged or
that they were going to shift their military focus to the east and then suddenly, today, bombing lviv in the west, where, you know, just 200 miles or so from where president biden was giving a speech in warsaw. was that a message of defiance to the americans? who knows? but clearly a sign from the kremlin that no part of ukraine is safe. there is exasperation, clearly, with vladimir putin. joe biden saying that putin is completely to blame, all the attempts to talk to vladimir putin before this war, before the invasion broke out, were, you know, putin was lying at every step. so, you know, a defiant message, a message of support to the ukrainians, a message of support to poland and to its nato allies and a clear message that vladimir putin has to end this aggression. the un says a ukrainian child becomes a refugee every 90 seconds.