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Understandable that commanders give them some orders. for us it is very important for our strategy, for our strategy to investigate war crimes, from the smallest soldiers to big general. >> as you did note, the brigade allegedly responsible for this rewarded, honored specifically by vladimir putin. it is your job to document these cases around ukraine. how many cases of documented war crimes, alleged war crimes have you uncovered so far? >> actually we have three big approaches. it is crimes of ...

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Command. >> they must be punished. a young guy bringing potatoes maybe to his family, the stores were closed, no power, he wanted to help, he was killed. what do they deserve? only punishment. >> punishing the guilty wont be easy. >> there were a number of russian units stationed here one time oar another. you need to try to identify which unit it was, what the chain of command was. >> its very important to identify not only the commanders but the troops who committed the crimes and held them ac...

There was a young guy putting potatoes in a bag there was no water, no heating. he wanted to help and was killed. >> reporter: but punishing the guilty wont be easy. there were a number of different russian units i understand who were tastationed here at one time or another. do you need to try to identify which unit it was, what the chain of the command was. >> translator: and its very important not only to identify the commanders but the complete troops who committed the crimes have them held a...

Fellow commanders, fellow former commanders who know this area very well? this was supposed to be sort of a restart of the war for put putin and russia. didnt take the capital. didnt install a puppet regime. now focusing on the donbas. how sit going in these early days? >> were back to the traditional russian way of war, which is to grind it out. to terrorize the population. to throw mass at the problem. putin has a better opportunity here than he did trying to execute, which his forces were cle...

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I mean sergei lavrov is a very skilled diplomat. he no doubt understands that a first use of nuclear weapons by russia in this conflict would mean disaster for his country. if thats his message, he need to see tell that to his boss. >> true that. so lavrovs comments comes days after russia tested its intercontinental ballistic missile, does putin understand its going badly for him? >> also a very good question. i think weve had some questions about the level of real intelligence that, you know, ...

Might be ahead of the assault and lobbying out west to odesa and lviv. so where do you think they go from here? we know theyre reinforcing troops it could be couple of a weeks and once the action really starts what, is it going to look like? >> i think it will have a little bit of the characteristics weve seen so far which is disorganized logistically hampered and then somewhat of a panic in the way that they used their attacks. these lobbing missiles and western cities, their attack on supplies...

Finally sort of decided, you know what, its not just up to the ukrainians. its up to us, as well. were here for you. were sending back in our diplomats. ukraine is here for the long haul, according to the u.s. >> yeah. we saw that in the new package, the aid package last week, of another $800 million, which was just the kind of heavy weaponry that president zelenskyy has been asking for for some time. you heard how happy he was with that shipment. he said more of this, please. it looks like he i...

From ukraine to france and beyond, cnn reporters covering the world. >> ukraines military intelligence service says a strike on a russian command post in the southern kherson region killed two russian generals. a third general was seriously wounded. cnn cannot independently verify these casualties and the russian defense has not commented. several russian commanders had previously been killed in ukraine. analysts suggesting communication issues and a lack of senior leadership is forcing them to ...