As the war in Ukraine enters a new and possibly even bloodier phase, we are learning about

what the American intelligence community believes could be a Russian counteroffensive against

this country, the United States.

John Burman here in Foranderson, according to four sources familiar with recent US intelligence

assessments, Vladimir Putin may be willing to amp up efforts to interfere in US elections,

going further than he already has, possibly including these sources say, direct attacks

on voting systems, much more on this shortly.

First, the shifting battlefield, away from the villages and woods around Kiev, onto

flatter terrain and the Donbass in the east, better suited, say, our military analysts,

to large-scale tank warfare, but also amenable to the kind of anti-tank weapons the Ukrainians

now have in the tens of thousands.

The senior Ukrainian official says the Russian offensive has already begun.

These are new satellite photos of an eight-mile-long Russian convoy heading toward the region.

A senior American defense official says the column includes command and control, a support

battalion, and other infantry support elements.

Meantime in the northeast, Karkiv is being shelled in the words of Ukraine's interior minister,

practically all day long.

Here's some of what Siena's Nama Elbaga saw there today.

You can see all around us just the sheer devastation right here is the crater from where a bomb

was dropped just two days ago.

North of here, about 25 miles away, is inside Russia.

That's where the Russian positions are shelling.

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