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Made gains in the south but in the north the ukrainians have largely held off the russians and stalled their advance. as russian troops have withdrawn from towns around kyiv, they have been accused of carrying out atrocities on the civilian population. ukraine's president calls it genocide. russia says it is fake news. so, what was moscow's original plan for ukraine in this war? put simply, putin wants to bring ukraine back into moscow's orbit. nojoining nato, nojoining the european union, in fact, he would like to bring it back to where it was before it had a change of government in 2014, whe...

Maternity wards. this is one of the reasons why canada was one of the first countries to call on the international criminal court to look into putin's war crimes. we're providing investigative support, we're building up the case for people to recognize that not only was this a terrible mistake to violate the sovereignty of another country and create massive global instability that's impacting energy and food prices around the world, but it is also a series of war crimes that putin is deliberately committing that he needs to be held to account for. >> is it genocide, though? >> those are the th...

Army has performed in this war. so, what we are going to try and do here is break this down and explain how putin's plan, his initial plan, went wrong and, what are the options from here? russia's forces outnumber ukraine's by several times. they have attacked ukraine on three fronts, with tanks, planes, warships, allaiming for a swift victory and a collapse of ukraine's government. well, that hasn't happened, so, how does all this translate into progress for russia on the map? you can see the red areas here. they show where russian forces are largely in control. there is no question that they...

Together to try putin and his generals and to do it more quickly, just on an act of aggression. i think that makes a lot of sense. even though putin himself may never be tried in a court of law for his war crimes, the fact that he would be indicted would be the essence of putting a watermark on his forehead that every time you put a light on it, it would say war criminal. it may not deter him, but it certainly would have an impact on russia's ability to deal with other countries in the future. but all i can say is i hope that takes place. everybody is debating, is it a war crime? is it genocid...

Towns like bucha. the president himself has called it horrific and war crimes, and president zelenskyy has called it genocide. i wonder if there are people around the country and world asking themselves how much longer or how long do we watch this from the sidelines? is there a point where the russians might go too far? >> well, first i would dispute that we are watching from the sidelines. we have been doing everything we can to get the ukrainian armed forces and the ukrainian people the weapons they need to push back on russian aggression. we have seen a historic amount of security assistanc...