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Ukrainian forces will be looking to continue their counteroffensives against Russian troops struggling with harsh weather and logistical strains.

Exchanged for whelan. that deal didn't happen. fred pleitgen has more on this brutal spy. >> reporter: a brutal assassination in the heart of berlin, the killer gunned his victims down by orders from moscow. >> translator: the court called this state terrorism because judges concluded responsible for this murder. >> reporter: the strij, a georgian national that fought for the army in the chechen war in the 1990s. the court found cross convalescent shot him from behind and fired rounds from behind. krasikov has a real russian passport but with a fake identity and was sent to russia specifically...

Daylight. the suspect had a fake passport with a fake name, but german authorities were quickly able to confirm his real identity. the assassin was -- a former russian spy. during the trial, evidence emerged that he was still on russia's payroll and was likely hired to kill -- in germany, a man who was an old enemy of moscow's and had fought against the russians in the chechen war, russia was clearly sending a message. germany called it state terrorism. terrorism. but providence notorious. that is because six years earlier, in 2013, he killed a businessman in moscow using the same method, on a...

Chechen war, it was the mothers of the soldiers who provided the emotional power and what existed of resistance inside of russia to that conflict. i think you're going to see the same dynamic playing out here. there is a level of casualties that the russian government can't hide from its own people. so i think it is an unusual step by putin that reflects the enormous concerns that are growing inside of russia today when children are being used as cannon fodder. >> susan glasser and colonel, appreciate your expertise. thank you both. >> you bet. another stunning upset at the world cup and plu...

Women, those wives and mothers who have lost their sons and lost their husbands in a war, a brutal war that vladimir putin has taken to ukraine. you think about the 100,000 casualties on each side, how russia rained down hell on ukrainian civilians. now the war is coming home. his own people are not fact with the fact that they spilt so much russia blood and treasure. this is a battlefield in ukraine the likes of which we haven't seen humanitarian catastrophe since world war ii. putin is clearly feeling pressure from his own constituents, his own military. i would emphasize, too, from looking ...