that is set to liberate us. fergus walsh, bbc news, newcastle. let me bring you some breaking news now on ukraine, and in the last few minutes, the chief of defence intelligence has been giving his assessment of those claims that russia has made, that soldiers are being withdrawn from the border of ukraine. lieutenant general sirjim hockin hoare said, we have not seen evidence that russia has withdrawn troops from ukraine s borders, contrary to their claims, russia continues to build up military capabilities near ukraine, including sightings of additional armoured vehicles, helicopters and a field hospital moving towards ukraine s border. russia has the military mass in place to conduct an invasion of ukraine, that is the assessment of the chief of the defence of intelligence staff at the military of defence ministry of defence.