tonight, putin is turning to a notorious russian general known as the butcher of syria to lead his invasion after stiff ukrainian resistance humiliated kremlin troops trying to take kyiv. brian todd is on the story for us. many fear this russian general could usher in a grizzly new phase in this assault on the ukrainian people. that is almost a certainty, wolf. we have new information on genthe general whose proclivity for killing does not bode well for this war. the steal eyed new commander of russian forces in ukraine has a reputation u.s. officials and analysts say for bar war. we re probably turning another page in the same book of russian brutality. this general, his nickname is
region for five weeks. we traveled to two small weeks where russian forces were holding that territory for more than a month and found endless accounts of horror, of executions, of arbitrary detentions, and more. ukrainian soldiers returning from the front. jubilant after a humiliating defeat for russian forces in the north. in the neighboring villages, exhausted residents are emerging from their homes. after five weeks of russian occupation and the horrors that came with it. on day four of the war, this peaceful community became a front line. and nowhere was off limits. russian forces transformed the local school into their base. principal, natalya, shows us the carnage that was left behind.
didn t want this war. but forgiveness will be hard to come by here. the local cemetery, valintina takes us to the graves of six men who authorities say were executed by russian forces on the day they arrived. it s so hard to get over this, she says. they murdered them. she says the russian held on to the bodies for nine days before dumping them at the end of the village with instructions to bury them quickly. we dug very fast so they wouldn t shoot us, she says, but there was shooting over there and heavy shelling. among the dead, her neighbors. brothers, egor oand oleg. outside the family home, we meet their mother, olga.
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