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Worked. in fact everyone pulled her punches at the last minute. because i think prigozhin relays he did not support the general spirit look right now, david what is happening. you do not find their equivalent of chairman millie the joint chiefs. that's because he did not anticipate did not figure it was happening. the wagner group is a very competent military force, very capable. it's led by a guy the ground commander named dimitri, that is where wagner comes from that was his call site years ago. the battle hardened organization. i think what happened is they got called off at the last minute...

Russian troops are also being repositioned to attack that area. they are getting a new ground commander, general dvornikov, a man being described as an old school general, a blood and soil nationalist, trained in soviet military doctrine that believes and annihilating civilian targets to gain battlefield momentum. it's a strategy he used and brutal effect in syria. wiping out cities across the province, taking aleppo to the ground, targeting civilian pillars, like schools, hospitals, and we have seen the russians already do that here in ukraine. the green civilians feel that the worst is still...

Secret that their entire focus is going to be on the donbas area. it looks like they are preparing for a colossal assault on that area. not only is that eight mile long convoy of russian hardware heading east to the donbas region, tens of thousands of russian troops are also being repositioned to attack that area. they are getting a new ground commander, general dvornikov, a man being described as an old school general, a blood and soil nationalist, trained in soviet military doctrine that believes and annihilating civilian targets to gain battlefield momentum. it's a strategy he used and brut...

>> jason, let me ask you about this new ground commander that putin has put in place in ukraine. nicknamed the butcher, for what he did in syria, how big of a deal is this? >> well, let's put it in context. he has been on the ground as the third senior in this military action so far. so, let's give him a report card and great him as an f for failing. he was instrumental in syria, but it's a different kind of warfare. russians are always violent, the use mass, mercenaries, recruit minorities, they use a lot of people to throw at a problem and don't care how they get it done. again, the real adv...

Brutality against ukrainian civilians. with me now is a professor of international affairs at the new school, the co-author of the book, "in putin's footsteps," and the great granddaughter of former soviet premiere, nikita khrushchev. thank you so much for coming back on this show. a few weeks ago, u.s. intelligence officials said that president putin was being misinformed by what's going on in ukraine by his kremlin advisers. and now we see this newly appointed russian ground commander. what does that signal to you about putin's mind-set about the war. do you think he's fully aware of how bad...