russians knew the hospital wasn t vacant. is this part of putin s play book? look, it s a really ruthless war and one of the things she s trying to do is depopulate the regions he wants so he can occupy them. and one way you do that is by executing people, right? you do it by bombing civilian population centers. ia do that by raping women, by torturing people. all those things were done by the bosnian serbs. i think it s pretty clear that s what putin is trying to do. i want to talk about trevor reed who was being held in russia. former marine detained in russia since 2019, freed today in a prisoner swap for a russian citizen. it s great news, but it s also remarkable given the extreme tension between the u.s. and russia. how do you make sense of the timing here? i mean i timing may not be relevant. i mean it may these
only way to get them supplies is by land, and they admit that the fact that the more land that russia takes the more difficult it is becoming to give the ukrainians these supplies. they also said that there are discussions about perhaps providing some remote military training for ukrainian soldiers and also framed this current phase of the operation as the tip of the spear. now, secretary austin and general miley said that the vast majority of russian troops are still across the border in russia, and once they start to move in the focus is going to be on taking civilian population centers. they have lots of concerns about civilian injury and civilian death, hally. leigh ann caldwell, thank you. dan, let me go to you because i know you too have been working your sources overnight. what should we be looking for in
the syrian government is employing pretty crude and devastating weapons over the course of its war for more than three years now. barrel bombs on the syrian battle field against civilian population centers. we have seen video of barrel bombs crudely made chucked out of the back of helicopters. fuses being lit by syrian soldiers with their cigarettes and then dropped from thousands of feet up on civilian population centers. this is something we have been hearing about from human rights organizations and eyewitnesss and now evidence coming from what looks like syrian soldiers themselves filming what is a war crime being carried out. everybody, it seems on the battle field, whether in iraq or syria, is making use of more and more crude weapons of war in
weapons were used here. we have these dueling charges there. a lot of people wondering whether the regime is charging the rebels with using chemical weapons as a pretext so that they can then go use chemical weapons as a sort of response. right, ivan? that is one of the many conspiracy theories out there. we have to remember that just two days ago the syrian government carried out air strikes deep into neighboring lebanon to the west. it has ramped up consistently over the course of the last two years its use of force not only against rebels, and civilian population centers, but also against neighboring governments. now if you ask syrian people what they think about the threat of chemical weapons, john, many of them will just say, we re getting killed as it is. day to day, more than 70,000 people killed in the last two years, i don t care whether it s bullets or bombs or air strikes or chemical weapons that kill us, something is killing us day after day and it needs to stop.