president putin has accepted that it s not going well and he needs to readjust in some ways? i don t think mr. putin needs many signs that it hasn t been going well for him in ukraine. here we are day 46 and, again, he failed to achieve so many of his geographic and strategic objectives inside ukraine. so they re repositioning, they re refocusing on the donbas. i ll let them speak to their personnel announcements, but it wouldn t surprise anybody that they re trying to organize themselves better for a now more geographically confined and more specific set of target objectives now in the donbas specifically and in the south. what i would just hasten to offer is that the ukrainians have been for eight years and still are fighting over that. that s still part of ukraine and
and that stuff isn t sitting around, barbara. it gets to these transshipment site, they re put on to trucks and they re moved into ukraine very, very quickly. in some cases stuff comes from the united states takes no more than four to six days from the time the president authorized draw down and we aren t slowing down. regardless of the russian refocus on the donbas, we re not slowing down. that stuff continues to move. it s going to continue to move. we ve said as much as we can as fast as we can and we mean it. the reprioritization has not had an effect to coordinate the massive amounts of assistance from the u.s. into the ukraine. that assistance still continues.
imagery. i ve seen it, another convoy of vehicles heading south towards that town of izyum. it s not clear to us how many vehicles are in the convoy, what they re bringing. it does seem to be a mix of personnel carrying vehicles and armored vehicles and maybe some artillery, some enables capabilities. not exactly clear. but this this does seem to be an early effort by them to reenforce their efforts in the donbas. reporter: [ inaudible ]. without getting into russian targeting because we don t have perfect visibility on that, we have seen the russians hit airfields in the last couple of weeks, including one near dnipro just over the last day or so.
there could be likely tens of thousands of people dead, an atrocity, an incredible historic scale, even worse than what we ve seen in places like bucha here near kyiv, andrea. mike mcfaul, jump in here. i want to talk about what happens next. we ve seen this column now eight miles long. there s a lot of questions whether we are getting the weapons to ukraine quickly enough so that they can win in donbas, as they won in kyiv before the russians really dig in, especially under this brutal new general. talk to me about that. well, let s first celebrate the victory, the battle of kyiv, like you were just reporting. this is an extraordinary victory. i think it will be down in the history books as a defining moment for the rebirth of the ukrainian numbers and one of the biggest defeats of the russian army. but the war is not over.
here is john kirby. particularly in chernihiv, moving into into belarus and we re seeing movement eastward now back into russia. we still believe that the goal here for them so they have none of those groups that were a raid in the north are now in ukraine. our view, our assessment is that they ve all left. and they re beginning this effort to move them further to the east. we think, we think that they re going to use places like belgorod and north of the border of ukraine as refit, weigh stations for them to resupply. we have seen some early indications, bob, that they are in fact the russians are in fact trying to resupply and reinforce their efforts in the donbas. i think you guys have all seen