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Ukrainian forces will be looking to continue their counteroffensives against Russian troops struggling with harsh weather and logistical strains.

Exchanged for whelan. that deal didnt happen. fred pleitgen has more on this brutal spy. >> reporter: a brutal assassination in the heart of berlin, the killer gunned his victims down by orders from moscow. >> translator: the court called this state terrorism because judges concluded responsible for this murder. >> reporter: the strij, a georgian national that fought for the army in the chechen war in the 1990s. the court found cross convalescent shot him from behind and fired rounds from behind...

Daylight. the suspect had a fake passport with a fake name, but german authorities were quickly able to confirm his real identity. the assassin was -- a former russian spy. during the trial, evidence emerged that he was still on russias payroll and was likely hired to kill -- in germany, a man who was an old enemy of moscows and had fought against the russians in the chechen war, russia was clearly sending a message. germany called it state terrorism. terrorism. but providence notorious. that is...

Chechen war, it was the mothers of the soldiers who provided the emotional power and what existed of resistance inside of russia to that conflict. i think youre going to see the same dynamic playing out here. there is a level of casualties that the russian government cant hide from its own people. so i think it is an unusual step by putin that reflects the enormous concerns that are growing inside of russia today when children are being used as cannon fodder. >> susan glasser and colonel, apprec...

Women, those wives and mothers who have lost their sons and lost their husbands in a war, a brutal war that vladimir putin has taken to ukraine. you think about the 100,000 casualties on each side, how russia rained down hell on ukrainian civilians. now the war is coming home. his own people are not fact with the fact that they spilt so much russia blood and treasure. this is a battlefield in ukraine the likes of which we havent seen humanitarian catastrophe since world war ii. putin is clearly ...

Speaking amid the boom of artillery on Ukraines frontlines, the masked soldier said his ultimate goal was to liberate a land farther east - the Russian republic of Chechnya.

By Joseph Campbell and Dan Peleschuk BAKHMUT, Ukraine/KYIV (Reuters) - Speaking amid the boom of artillery on Ukraine's frontlines, the masked soldier...

BAKHMUT, Ukraine/KYIV (Reuters) - Speaking amid the boom of artillery on Ukraine's frontlines, the masked soldier said his ultimate goal was to liberate a land farther east - the Russian republic of Chechnya.

Chechens fighting for Ukraine see chance to free their homeland

Scholars agree that, even with ample evidence, prosecution could be extremely challenging at best.