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And this is war. explosion. this is a residential area. and heres another. russias military did this to whole communities in syria as well as chechnya. their commanders have form. chernihiv lost 22 of its citizens in this attack. the governor says two schools were also hit. make no mistake about vladimir putins desire to colonise this land. ukraine says russian targeting is indiscriminate. welcome to the town of borodyanka, population 12,500. parts of it a wasteland now of destruction in an incr...

Units trying to get into kyiv, they dont look very good. part of it may well be a lack of morale. i dont believe some of the stories coming out. they said one of the parent troop commanders trying to seize the airport thought he was on a training exercise, didnt know he was in ukraine. i dont believe that. by the way, id be skeptical of that 5500 dead russians, too. that would imply 35,000 casualties. there hadnt been that level of ground combat yet. there will be if they plunge into kyiv. so i ...

Civilians is not permitted in international humanitarian law, but even in circumstances where there are fightings taking place, there is belligerent activity in an urban area, that does not give a free license to use indiscriminate or very heavy weapons that will obviously disproportionately affect the civilian population. so whether its cluster bombs or thermobaric weapons, commanders in the field need to use great discretion and with great diligence decide how they wish to wage conflict now th...

Exactly this and it was upgraded by the way in 2014. we have not had consensus in the alliance that is what i was told by my friends in the government. well now it needs to be mobilized, because the worst thing that can happen from our perspective is that what if the ukrainian military begins to get righty? if they run? what if they go into poland? to survive. right? remember don kirk? sometimes military commanders make decisions that in order to fight for another day, you have to retreat now. w...

Committing what could be considered to be war crimes, if we dont think putin is ever going to stand trial for them but his commanders might. >> i think this is just indicative of their desperation right now, that they are switching to indiscriminate attacks into civilian areas. theres nothing military in the location of that strike. i saw it on tv, looked like a mortar strike to me as well, and this has nothing to do with a military advancement. its all about terrorizing and depopulating these a...

Hello, im ros atkins, this is outside source. there are calls for an immediate ceasefire in the ukraine ceasefire, both from the government in kyiv and from a rare emergency session of the un general assembly. the fighting in ukraine must stop. its raging across the country from air, land and sea. it must stop now. after a first day of talks between russia and ukraine on the border with belarus, no breakthrough but the two sides agree to keep talking. dozens are reported killed as the city of kh...

Fifth night in which russians shells landed on ukrainian cities. the kyiv region, to the north, and the northeast. where footage appear to show a shopping mall being shelled this morning. show a shopping mall being shelled this morning-— this morning. europeans are aware that i this morning. europeans are aware that i soldiers _ this morning. europeans are aware that i soldiers are _ this morning. europeans are aware that i soldiers are fighting - this morning. europeans are aware that i soldi...

Might. western commanders think ultimately if russia keeps this up it will probably overcome and take the big cities of kharkiv and kyiv and the government will either have to go into hiding, into exile or it will be captured. that is obviously not what ukrainians are hoping for. then you are into resistance, and afghanistan situation, a kind of insurgency that nato will have to decide, do they arm it? russia will say, if you are met we will consider that an active aggression, in which case ukra...

Appealed to russian soldiers to go home. >> you can still save yourselves if you just go home. do not believe your commanders who say that you will still have a chance ukraine. nothing but president out death await to hear. you are taking our lives it will pay with yours. >> has destroyed almost 3,000 ukrainian military facilities. they also claimed that the maternity hospital yesterday was one of them and it had been used by ukrainian militia. images of pregnant women suggest elsewhere. three d...

Re orts russia actually wants peace. we hear reports they — russia actually wants peace. we hear reports they are _ russia actually wants peace. we hear reports they are making _ russia actually wants peace. we hear reports they are making progress in l reports they are making progress in peace talks every day this week we heard about the mediation through the israeli prime minister and now tonight we are hearing through our world affairs editorjohn simpson that the turkish mediators have spok...