them legitimate targets. this all puts a big blow, really, to the ukrainian forces efforts and wideb ns the russia offensive stretching from the east to the west of the country. president zelenskyy says the whole country is in line. thank you, for that report. joining me now retired u.s. army general kimmitt. general kimmitt that attack a couple pieces of significance. proximity to nato and russians clearly targeting efforts to resupply ukrainians, efforts to aid ukrainians in their fight in other parts of the country? i think that s right. it s not only the resupply efforts, but it could indicate this is a new area they re going to attacking. they ve attacked in the north, the south. the donbas region in the east, and this may be first cut off the supplies coming in and second start a ground campaign going in there.
play the video, it s very interesting to see something. here you see the actual destruction of it here. take a look at the other ships coming through here. this one here is also on fire. so you ve got two ships that have been hit, one completely damaged but another one clearly still can get underway but that is one of the things that is really key to this kind of situation when you ve got either sabotage or missile strike or something like that. my suspicion is it might be sabotage but that was an amazing effort by the ukrainians to sink one of those ships and that has significant impact on russia s resupply efforts in this area and in fact, when you go here to the southern part of ukraine, where that happened is right here, right next to mariupol and we of course saw the city, you
if russia does limit its offensive on the city, it s probably because it had stalled already. orla guerin, bbc news, kyiv. so how have ukraine and the west assessed russia s scaleback announcement? ukraine s president zelensky has said while initial signs from the talks were positive , they do not drown out the explosions of russian shells. the us said they would judge moscow on its actions rather than its words. again, very early stages here. they only just recently in the last few hours made this proclamation. so, we have seen a small number begin to move away from kyiv, that s about the most i can give you. i don t have any information on their resupply efforts for troops that are still going against kyiv. the russians still have a significant majority of their assembled combat
orla guerin, bbc news, kyiv. so, how have ukraine and the west assessed russia s scale back announcement? ukraine s president zelensky has said while initial signs from the talks were positive , they do not drown out the explosions of russian shells. the us said they would judge moscow on its actions rather than its words. pentagon spokesmanjohn kirby says they believe russia is repositioning, not withdrawing. very early stages here. it does recently in the last few hours make this proclamation. so, we have seen a small number begin to move away from kyiv, that s about the most i can give you. i don t have any information on the resupply efforts for troops that is still going against kyiv. the russians still have a significant majority of their
on their resupply efforts for troops that are still going against kyiv. the russians still have a significant majority of their assembled combat power, to include logistics and sustainment capability available to them inside ukraine. i suppose peace deals are rarely built on hope or class, they have to be on concrete actions. and i suppose there is actions. and i suppose there is a reality going on, these are talks, the war is another matter and there is no sign of that stopping. matter and there is no sign of that stepping- that stopping. that s right, russia has that stopping. that s right, russia has continued - that stopping. that s right, russia has continued its i russia has continued its assault russia has continued its assault on southern ports, and the latest assault on southern ports, and the latest we have seen pictures coming out of a rocket tearing pictures coming out of a rocket tearing apart a government building in mykolaiv. a plume of smoke building in mykola