Despite Russian claims of "drastically" pulling back in two key battle areas, frontline accounts in Ukraine tell us something very different. And US intelligence now believes Vladimir Putin is being deliberately misinformed by his advisers, who are too scared to tell him the truth about the poor performance of the Russian military. Meanwhile, Presidents Biden and Zelensky spoke on the phone for over an hour today. We have it all covered, beginning with a live report by Ivan Watson from Zaporizhzhia in southeast Ukraine.

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