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Sandra. >> sandra: jennifer griffin reporting live from the pentagon, john. >> john: well bring in the former nato allied commander. good to be with you. give folks an idea, kyiv, and north of that irpin, the horrible scene of the family cut down by a mortar, and now bucha, horrific scenes with people with hands tied behind their backs, shot in cold blood in the back of the head, women raped, children killed, and maybe some of the chechnyans that came in, what do you make of what we are seeing h...

Crimes be prosecuted. the simple answer to that is at the international criminal court. in this case, ukraine is giving the court jurisdiction. that means any crime committed in the territory of ukraine, even by russia, which is not a party to the court, but if that crime is committed within ukraine, the court has jurisdiction. it has jurisdiction to prosecute not simply say the low-level soldier who might have executed someone. the courts real interest is the commanders. and in order to demonst...

To joey jones. of heard him share that story and its something i havent been able to get out of my mind. thats the reality of war, harris, those are the -- there are many examples of the individuals who had their hounds bound were shot in the back of the head. one of the victims was a 14-year-old boy. there are children or the victims of sexual abuse, there are women with their heads shaved, evoking images of era. these are atrocities being committed one after the other. the mayor of speed 37 sa...

Means to resist. vladimir putin also believed that the west would not hold together in support of ukrainian. russia was surprised that president biden and the united states were so effective in rallying the world to prepare for and respond to the invasion. after president biden reinvigorated western unity in brussels 11 days ago, the russians have now realized that the west will not break. at this juncture, we believe that russia is revising its war ames. theyre repositioning their forces to con...

Vladmir putin believed the west would not hold together. they were surprised the united states was so effective in preparing the world to prepare for and respond to the invasion. after president biden reenforced and reinvigorated over a series of summits just 11 days ago, the russians have realized that the west will not break. at this juncture, we believe that russia is revising its war games. russia is repositioning its forces to concentrate the offensive operations in eastern and part of sout...

Prison and that is where they sit right now. in addition, in the same time period you have a massive genocide in rwanda in the space of some three months a million people and between 800,000 and a million people of the tootsy tribe were slaughters and some hugh toos. and prosecutions took place and the lead murderers, the commanders, and even, even leaders of the mass media there which were the propaganda, which, you know, set the fires of slaughter as it was happening, they also were convicted ...

Back but theyre in a diss mounted mode, pushing back incrementally. they will push forces toward kharkiv. there are ukrainian military elements but they could be sealed in in the pockets. what the ukrainians will need to do very quickly is start to reinforce out here towards the east. how do you do that? thats things like air cover, being able to project out with some air power to actually go at these russian positions. i think the other thing to look at is how does this escalate if the ukrainia...

Corridor here. and i think that goes to the bigger picture which is ultimately this fight in the east. all of this manpower, the assumption is that they will try to move it into belarus back into russia and place it here in this critical corridor between kharkiv. the question, these troops that are coming out of kyiv, even in the south around mariupol, they have been in the fight for six weeks. youve seen commanders killed. youve seen commanders essentially be overtaken by their own soldiers, an...

Able to— more we have, the sooner we will be able to win _ more we have, the sooner we will be able to win this war and to prevent russia _ able to win this war and to prevent russia from — able to win this war and to prevent russia from committing more crimes. the united _ russia from committing more crimes. the united kingdoms readiness to work closely with ukraine to the investigation of war crimes and bringing — investigation of war crimes and bringing perpetrators and commanders to ac...

Vladimir putin also believed that the west would not hold together in support of ukraine. russia was surprised that president biden and the united states were so effective in rallying the world to prepare for and respond to the invasion. and after president biden reinforced and reinvigorated western unity at a series of summits in brussels just 11 days ago, the russians have now realized that the west will not break. at this juncture, we believe that russia is revising its war aims. russia is re...