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Said in earlier commentary targeted could mean that a predator saw somebody that night and followed them home or an uber driver. i'm not saying that's who it is but someone who came in contact with one of the four specifically targeted one of them. that could be, you know, a 10-minute targeting process or someone that knows them closely or knows them being on the outside of their social network if you will on the fringes or knows them through the internet postings. i don't think it tells us a whole lot. i think the biggest concern right now is they have a lot of evidence and we're 11 days out....

Codifying the protection of civilians as a commander’s explicit objective in all operations is an essential step toward reducing noncombatant casualties.

To rapidly ramp up their targeting process and then, of course, orders to fire on those particular targets. >> i want to stick with you for a moment, if i could, if we look at what's happening in mariupol, which scott laid out for us just a few minutes ago. i know you said it looks like we could be seeing the end of this battle with russia being victorious. if russia takes mariupol, where do they go next? >> so, erica, this might be a pyrrhic victory for the russians. they're looking at taking mariupol and creating that land bridge that we've talked about between crime califora and the and int...

Fires. now, the degree to which we can prove that these are incidental versus intentional, i don't any we got that without any great fidelity. it would be speculation to know that a given target was intentional or not. i understand the context of the question. the bottom line is more civilians are being killed and wounded, more infrastructure is being damaged or destroyed. mr. putin still has a choice here. not to escalate, not to be more aggressive in the use of these long range fires and his capabilities, but to find a diplomatic path forward and the invasion. >> military targets and governm...

Response to that? >> yeah. i think we just need to be, you know -- first of all, i'm not -- i don't have granularity on the russian targeting process. they hit a ukrainian military training facility. they also hit some airfields in the previous few days in western ukraine. they are clearly expanding some of their target sets here. i can't get into their heads and to tell you exactly what was behind that target on that day with that many cruise missiles. i don't want to just reduce this to some sort of signaling. if mr. putin was trying to signal his displeasure about a strong united nato with ...