primarily conducting ground search and rescue and clearance operations. in fact, florida guardsmen are conducting high water vehicle rescues. like wise, our 164th brigade is conducting similar missions throughout our northeast counties. we maintain immediate response forces. we are embedded with each of our impacted county emergency operations centers and remain ready to provide support as requested. the national guard has vehicles, 14 aircraft conducting planned urban search and rescue operations this afternoon and 23 small water craft on hand to
artillery that killed his neighbor. when he tried to come back, he says the commander seemed surprised. he said, what are you doing here? you should have been burnt alive. mikkola still doesn t know why he decided to let him live. rape enough people, torture enough people, for what? because they wanted scare civilians. scare our citizens of towns, villages, cities. reporter: after withdrawing from the bucha area, the brigade s men were promoted by moscow. the kremlin denies any involvement in the mass killings. the 64th brigade was created after the georgian war, according to ukrainian intelligence. the soldiers of this brigade, he says, were noted for their robberies and rapes, but instead of bringing order to the brigade, the russian command armed it, he explains, with modern weapons and sent it into ukraine.
executions. reporter: we wanted to see for ourselves where some of these alleged crimes might have been committed. going door to door with pictures of the soldiers, we meet andre, who recognizes one of them. is it locked? he leads us down to a cellar where he says russian soldiers tried to kill a group of men and women who had been hiding. they used grenades and rifles, he says, but the civilians managed to survive by heading further into the darkness. this is the scene of just one of the alleged crimes of the men of the 64th brigade. it is littered with cigarettes and bullet casings. we show mikkola, a picture of this soldier. he recognizes him immediately and invites us into what s left of his home. he and his family hid in the woods, he says, while his home was destroyed by the russian
beyond working out exactly what the russian soldiers who occupy this area north of kyiv might have been responsible for, the big question for ukrainian prosecutors now is where they are. of course, a question of particular concern to military intelligence, if as they believe that 64th brigade is now fighting in the east, the question is, if they get pushed back, what will they leave behind? for now, though, the question is very much of the russian advances and the tactical advantage they seem to have on the field. even now we re learning of the possible fall of severe donetsk, one of the towns on the front lines. this is a front line that now stretches all the way to the south in zaporizhzhia now. those russian-controlled areas now being locked down, the border hardened. where i m standing there was a cruise missile that hit just four days ago. three of them hit the town of zaporizhzhia. one of them intercepted. this is a front line the fact
village in late february. now in charge here of life and of death. six weeks later, now back in control of the village, ukrainian authorities begin counting the dead. i can t look, says one mother. it was only after the tanks had withdrawn that ukrainian prosecutors were able to start piecing together what had happened. they now suspect these men of crimes in violation of the rules and customs of war. translator: on this street nine soldiers of the 64th brigade imprisoned unarmed civilians. they detained and tortured them for ten days, inflicting bodily harm and carrying out mock