This is CNN tonight.

I'm Jake Tapper live from Levy, Ukraine, which is close to NATO's doorstep in the West,

just about 40 miles from Poland.

This region was targeted by Russian cruise missiles within the last 24 hours or so, about

an hour north-east of where I'm standing.

But Ukraine's military claims to have shot those missiles down.

The fiercest fighting is underway right now, however, in eastern Ukraine, according to

government officials there.

That's where Vladimir Putin has shifted focus for what seems to be a new phase of his

war.

Heavy fighting reported today by local officials in the Dobas region of Luhansk and Donetsk,

also more than two dozen strikes reported on residential areas, residential areas in the

city of Harkiv.

The Pentagon assesses the Russian forces have completely withdrawn from areas around

the capital of Kiev and nearby Chernyiv to close in on that Dombas region.

But Putin has not necessarily given up on trying to capture the capital of Kiev.

He's just moving his troops and the targets of his brutal strikes elsewhere for now.

And as Russian troops move elsewhere, their horrific actions are being revealed in towns

that they once occupied such as Butchia, a warning again this evening, some pictures

that we will show you throughout this hour, such as these, are graphic and disturbing.

A senior US defense official now says the slaughter of perhaps hundreds of Ukrainians in Butchia

does appear to have been premeditated and planned.

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