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>> long stalled discussions resumed. as wa war -- entered what many hoped would be its final phase, both sides saw any ground taken in last days of battle would provide an advantage at the negotiating table, the ridgers and mountainsides were scene for some of the most brutal fighting of the entire war. >> into the human waves of reds assaulting the hill. and u.n. counter attacks are mounted. from one of the most savaged battles of the war. >> another seemingly insignificant knoll identified as hill 255 was

>> long stalled discussions resumed. as warre war -- entered what many hoped would be its final phase, both sides saw any ground taken in last days of battle would provide an advantage at the negotiating table, the ridgers and mountainsides were scene for some of the most brutal fighting of the entire war. >> into the human waves of reds assaulting the hill. and u.n. counter attacks are mounted. from one of the most savaged battles of the war. >> another seemingly insignificant knoll identified as hill 255 was

Signs of it along the front lines, seeing indications of preliminary attacks, precise hits on russian infrastructure, even a suggestion that a whole part of the west of areas outside of russian-occupied control in kherson will be under a long curfew from friday, all of that making you feel the counteroffensive is happening or about to happen and here we have this stark claim from the kremlin. it will have people i'm sure in nato capitals working out what veracity they can put to it, working out where vladimir putin has been over the past days. trying to assess if there's anything to this at al...

Military experts answer this better than i do, has the military in russia figured out how to fix everything that's gone wrong on the battlefield the last year? we don't know. what we do know, and this is frantically important, what they may lack in quality they make up for in quantity. in other words, the number of people that they -- they are ready to shove at this in human waves because they don't care about the loss of their own lives, much less the loss of ukrainian lives. they have an advantage of people. >> putin had that moment of silence in his speech for the russian moments they loss....

Oligarch who is the group's figure head has been openly critical of russia's military and bureaucracy. cnn's sam kiley is in kyiv. sam, this group is known for brutal tactics in ukraine. it is not just on the battlefield but in their own ranks, too. >> reporter: yes. i think brutal tactics rather than skillful tactics. in many ways the, quote, unquote, success will wagner is using the crudest possible form of tactics, which is to recruit the lowest of the low, prisoners, murderers, thieves, rapists, give them the option of fight, die or get amnesty, and send them to war very poorly led, very p...