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Um, this is yet another dirty trick, if you will, out of putin. but these are going to be forces that are the ultimate undisciplined, looting, raping, its going to be a very ugly part of the campaign. and all of it is inclined to terrorize the people of ukraine because their fighting spirit is the center of gravity. >> david ignatius, let me take up that point about the distention in the ranks around vladimir putin. obviously, as admiral stavridis said, the united states and the west has been pu...

Ukrainian military units and commanders daily begging for more items now. they cant wait any longer. they are at war. russia continues to bomb balderson cities to help demoralize the population and using these attacks on civilians as main weapon of choice and committing war crimes across the country. >> pete: there was report from a.p. reporter who was the last cameraman in mariupol before he had to flee. thats what russia is counting on as well. once you besiege a city enough and then you targe...

Translation: we do not believe anyone. - we do not trust any beautiful verbal constructions. there is a real situation on the battlefield, and now, this is the most important thing, we will not give up anything and we will fight for every metre of our land, for every person. but many have already left. the united nations says more than four million ukrainians have now fled to neighbouring countries. jon donnison, bbc news. 0ur correspondentjonah fisher is in lviv and sent us this update. it does...

Bulgaria and romania. heres natos secretary generaljens stoltenberg on the deployments. so, we are resetting natos deterrence and defence for the long—term. with more troops, with more air assets and more maritime capabilities. we have already increased our presence in the east, and today, we decided on four new battlegroups and the leaders agreed to talks to commanders to provide options for a long—term reset of our presence, our military posture in the eastern part of the alliance and acro...

Predicts they will take massive losses. can they keep putting canon fodder to try to take it. >> such a tragedy. with you will ukraine really tried to hold this? we know they have been fighting very, very well, great learning curve for the ukrainian forces. if they want to keep mariupol, i think they have a chance of doing it. >> john: putin is not getting the whole deal from his commanders. do you believe it or not? >> no, i think hes in control and very dangerous. >> sandra: president biden is...

Commanders are assessing for the long term. stoltenberg said it marks a new normal. nato already agreed to double its troop presence all over eastern europe. some say its still not enough. the baltic states of astonia, latvia and lithuania have been raising the alarm over russian aggress for years. now, unless they go further support from allies, some worry they could be next. its good to see you. >> my pleasure. >> let me start with, look, we can talk about prewar here in a minute. what do you ...

Excellent, especially the leadup to this war. but we dont know much about what is going on now in the kremlin. the one thing im sure of is i dont believe -- i dont believe that putin is scaling back his military operation to northern ukraine. we are going to see even more fierce fighting in the eastern part of the country. maybe he is modifying his military goal right now in ukraine because he realizes -- and this is my assumption -- that he he has been misled by his closest aides, by his genera...

Poland to show support for ukraines neighbour and announces a deal on gas to reduce european alliance —— reliance on russian energy. and the duke and duchess of cambridge on the last leg of a caribbean tour that has attracted crowds and some controversy. as the war in ukraine enters its second month, there are signs of a possible shift in russias military aims, amid reports that russias advance on kyiv has stalled commanders in moscow as suggesting they may now refocus their military campaig...

Going to now move its forces to consolidate its security in the eastern part. but jack keane said earlier today, dont believe that.enter up here in the chernobyl area, one of the top commanders is reconstituting forces for another potential move on kyiv. >> its certainly a possibly. so, there are reports of the russians pulling forces back for the purpose of reconstituting. the way this works, nothing harder than attacking with tired, exhausted troops. and you would be shocked at what 24 hours o...

That tells anyone between, that there are serious risks of ending up in the court and behind bars. if they engage in further war crimes, or indeed for any other action that they take. >> are you confident that war crimes will be proven at the end of this war in ukraine? >> this is for the icc to decide. weve been here before in yugoslavia, rwanda, syria, and the uk has a long history dating back to nuremberg of supporting war crime accountability. and again, the prime minister has -- with me and...