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Number of soldiers they have, but they have to admit to these losses because the body bags are coming back and russian parents are starting to ask questions, what happened to my son? >> do you think putin knows how brutal and inhumane the russian troops have been to the ukrainians? >> i think he does because thises should playbook from the second chechen war. he launched a war in chechnyas for years before the russians prevailed. it's not unusual for the way the russian armed forces behave. >> i guess the reason i ask is because of some of the reporting we've had about how isolated putin has, ...

As workers struggle to clear the bodies of civilians from the streets of the Ukrainian town of Bucha, and investigators struggle to compile evidence, RFE/RL has pinpointed some of the Russian military units known to have occupied the city.

People detained. speaking of urban myths, that ukrainian intelligence are trying to communicate with russian soldiers trying to fighd out their positions. it's a different kind of war. a bloody one. you're talking about shooting down transport planes. >> bret: if that's true. that would be the largest loss for russian troops since the second chechen war. that would be huge. >> that was very bloody for the russians, huge loss. we are talking about huge numbers. talking about potentially over 500 russian soldiers have been killed in just two days of fighting. how long can they keep that up? this...

U.s.-european command, when the russians first invaded ukraine in 2014, he's also said basically the same thing. don't take it off the table. >> i think we fixed general zwack's audio issue, so let me ask you about some of the damage we've seen, and let's take a look. this is a school in kharkiv. you can see a hole in the wall there. windows blown out. a shop in kharkiv as well, damaged here. the windows blown out. metal around here on the street as well, and then just look at this. just the buildings, all the way down the street on both sides, damaged. there's a senior u.s. defense official w...

This the russians are going to use their preponderance of power are a till ler a sets. their thermobaric weapons to try take advantage of their advantage and smash their way into the cities. they don't have the will to fight toe small unit take advantage of stand back arms and put damage on ukrainian cities and unfortunately the ukrainian civilians as they apply that pressure on the ukrainians. >> jesse: what a gruesome situation. to sit back and shell it. that's all they are doing. >> we have already seen this russian strategy in syria. we saw it the second chechen war in grozny. they are art...