welcome to bbc news: i m monika plaha. our top stories: the us defence department says it s confident that a balloon spotted over montana is a chinese surveillance platform. a former russian officer tells the bbc he witnessed russian soldiers humiliating and shooting ukrainian prisoners of war. translation: the ukrainian had a blindfold on. translation: the ukrainian had a blindfold on. the translation: the ukrainian had a blindfold on. the colonel - translation: the ukrainian had a blindfold on. the colonel put i a blindfold on. the colonel put a blindfold on. the colonel put a pistol to the prisoner s forehead and said i am going to counter three and then shoot you the head. meanwhile, president putin uses the 80th anniversary of the soviet victory over the nazis in stalingrad to insist that russia will win the war in ukraine. a convicted italian mafia
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welcome to bbc news, i m monika plaha. our top stories: the us defense department says it s confident that a balloon spotted over montana is a chinese surveillance platform. these are believed to be the first images. a former russian officer tells the bbc he witnessed russian soldiers humiliating and shooting ukrainian prisoners of war. translation: the ukrainian had a blindfold on. the colonel put a pistol to the prisoner s forehead and said, i am going to count to three and then shoot you in the head. meanwhile, president putin uses the 80th anniversary of the soviet victory over the nazis in stalingrad to insist that russia will win the war in ukraine.