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Have a very different concept of time, but this will be a big battle and as we've been reporting, you've been reporting, it will be a much more conventional style battle than this slaughtering of innocence we've seen so far. >> there's no indication that those features will diminish as the brutality has been rewarded in russia, the soldiers who carried out the atrocities in bucha have been recognized by putin himself. i'm sure that doesn't tell you anything new, but what should the rest of us take from that? >> honestly, nicolle, it does tell me something new. i wrote my first piece about puti...

Rewarded back in mother russia. putin awarded honors to the same russian army brigade that ukraine has accused of committing -- war crimes. at war with one another. one calls what happened in bucha a genocide, which it clearly was. the other rewards the soldiers who carried it out. it's where we start the hour. joining us now, npr white house correspondent live from central ukraine. we have some of the pictures you've taken from your twitter feed, and i want to start by putting up this one. this is, thank you, u.s. taxpayer, what can i say? it looks like a ukrainian after a russian tank is blo...

Do they view him as more isolated, perhaps because of some of the pandemic practices and traditions he's put into place? do they view the defeats as having a correlation to the atrocities that have been carried out by russian soldiers in ukraine? >> yeah, everyone's seen the pictures of putin sitting at the end of his table without people. we've seen it over the last couple of years, him being very isolated during covid. there were reports that he didn't leave his dacha at all during covid. you had to take a kind of long, underground tunnel of security but also of covid protection just to get ...

The last couple of years, putin had got more bitter. that was the word he used. more bitter. and you certainly hear that in his speeches, rights? you hear this sense of victimhood that is even more pronounced now than it used to be, the sense that it's russia that's under attack from the rest, that he is the leader of a country that is being oppressed and harassed by nato. and this european diplomat felt that it was personal, that putin has become more bitter and i guess if that is the way you're feeling, if you really are feeling that you are the victim here, you perhaps don't stop at anythin...

It was 2013 when he seemed to address an intense admiration for the russian strong man. >> he's put himself -- a lot of people would say he's put himself at the forefront of the world as a leader. he's done an amazing job of showing certain leadership our people have not been able to match. >> he would echo those sentiments for years to come. >> putin has an 80% popularity in this country. he's so outsmarting the united states that all of a sudden the people in russia like him. run but a very smart cookie, much smarter than our president. >> this was when trump began giving conflicting reports...