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Said in earlier commentary targeted could mean that a predator saw somebody that night and followed them home or an uber driver. im not saying thats who it is but someone who came in contact with one of the four specifically targeted one of them. that could be, you know, a 10-minute targeting process or someone that knows them closely or knows them being on the outside of their social network if you will on the fringes or knows them through the internet postings. i dont think it tells us a whole...

Codifying the protection of civilians as a commander’s explicit objective in all operations is an essential step toward reducing noncombatant casualties.

To rapidly ramp up their targeting process and then, of course, orders to fire on those particular targets. >> i want to stick with you for a moment, if i could, if we look at whats happening in mariupol, which scott laid out for us just a few minutes ago. i know you said it looks like we could be seeing the end of this battle with russia being victorious. if russia takes mariupol, where do they go next? >> so, erica, this might be a pyrrhic victory for the russians. theyre looking at taking mar...

Fires. now, the degree to which we can prove that these are incidental versus intentional, i dont any we got that without any great fidelity. it would be speculation to know that a given target was intentional or not. i understand the context of the question. the bottom line is more civilians are being killed and wounded, more infrastructure is being damaged or destroyed. mr. putin still has a choice here. not to escalate, not to be more aggressive in the use of these long range fires and his ca...

Response to that? >> yeah. i think we just need to be, you know -- first of all, im not -- i dont have granularity on the russian targeting process. they hit a ukrainian military training facility. they also hit some airfields in the previous few days in western ukraine. they are clearly expanding some of their target sets here. i cant get into their heads and to tell you exactly what was behind that target on that day with that many cruise missiles. i dont want to just reduce this to some sort ...

Is this putin testing the west in any way and how are we showing our response to that? >> i think we just need to be -- first of all, i dont have granularity on the russian targeting process. they hit a ukrainian training facility. they hit some air fields in the western ukraine. theyre expanding their target sets here. i cant get into their heads and tell you exactly what was behind that target on that day with that many cruise missiles. i dont want to just reduce this to some sort of signallin...

Under which putin will be using this tactic and the tragedy is that there is no way from the ukrainian side to prove what putin or lover of or the spokesman is saying. that is an absolutely _ spokesman is saying. that is an absolutely fascinating _ spokesman is saying. that is an absolutely fascinating insight i absolutely fascinating insight and as you alluded to there, the russian forces have said they do not fire on civilian targets was their response. —— lavrov. i am targets was their re...

It loses that protection. so thatis it loses that protection. so that is the guys under which putin will be using this tactic, and the tragedy is that there was no way for side to prove what putin or lavrov or peskov, who was the spokesperson, is saying. that is a fascinating _ spokesperson, is saying. that is a fascinating insight into how these things work. as you alluded to, so far the russian forces have not fired on civilian targets, was their response. i am civilian targets, was their resp...

0 empty stream and the next second chaos is erupting around you. we dont know the extent of his injuries but were praying for him and his family that he comes back to us. >> sandra: we should have an update soon, we hope, from the hospital there. thanks for joining us. im sandra smith. >> john: and im john roberts. "the story" with martha starts right now. >> martha: thanks to you both. were all praying for ben hall at this hour as john and sandra just told you. im martha maccallum at fox headqu...

0 there for this white house. that could mean more high prices to come. >> john: its stunning from a lot of americans that we would rather buy oil from iran and venezuela than doing the former. >> sandra: were going to dig into a lot of what she said today. thanks for joining us. im sandra smith. >> john: im john roberts. "the story" with martha stars right now. >> martha: thank you, john and sandra. good afternoon. im martha maccallum at fox news head quarters in new york. as russia escalates t...