city council, armed men entered the building and took the keysed a replaced our guards with their own. and right now defense secretary lloyd austin is at the ham stein air base meeting with nato allies and the u.n. secretary-general is in moscow where he will meet with russian president vladimir putin. our coverage this morning begins on the ground if ukraine with isa soares live in lviv. what do we know about ukrainian forces pushing back against the russian offensive now? reporter: good morning to you, laura. let me give you a sense of what we have seen in the overnight hours, that russian offensive pushing further east as well as south. we ve seen intense and nonstop shelling really from the russian side overnight. in all directions. this coming from an adviser to president zelenskyy, he said what russian forces are trying to do, and i m quoting him here, raising everything to the ground.