these are the sites where we have cnn reporters and local reports. there are reports all the way over here, south of lviv. that is so far from this separatist region, which is where vladimir putin was claiming he was concerned about. what do you make of the scale of this? >> that delta between what he said he is interested in in the donbas region and what you are seeing throughout the country is really interesting. i'm sure some of it military will say it is softening up, preparing the battle space because it's possible, for example, that ukrainian forces could have stuff here that could endanger russian forces as they're moving in. equally important as to what's going on on the ground here is what putin has said. he said he's going in ostensibly to protect russian citizens. he gave them passports giving