"Russian forces have pulled back from the Ukrainian cities of Kyiv and Chernihiv but have not yet been redeployed to the eastern region of the country," a senior U.S. defense official said Wednesday.
"We are not showing Russian forces in or around [Ukraine’s capital] Kyiv or to the north of Kyiv and we're not showing Russian forces in or around Chernihiv,” the official told reporters at the Pentagon.