they aren t attacking her fp they are seeming to support her and continue to back up. if i could say real quickly. there are conversations that are happening. can replicate what happened with madison cawthorne. there s an effort to unseat her. madison cawthorne s loss. she will still be tough to beat. it means the conversations are happening a lot more feverishingly today than yesterday. okay. to be continued. thank you doug and tia. thank you. in ukraine today, the first war crimes trial of a russian soldier ends with a guilty plea. we ll go live to kyiv. : was it an intentional nose dive? we have new flight data from this jet. what the evidence is telling investigators. five students are now suing a georgia school district for
early, to start prosecuting people now so active withdrawal, they think again about what it is they might carry out as they look to try to gain or keep what ground they have in ukraine so far, kate. great point, thank you so much. prosecutor general saying they estimate 10,000, some 10,000 war crimes have been committed in this war so far. outfront with us now, emily fargas former u.s. deputy assistant secretary defense for russia, ukraine and eurasia and retired general peter zwack, good to see both of you. evelyn, first, with the war crimes trial, the world cares about this trial and should care about the trial, of course, but do you think putin cares about this trial? and the many that are likely to follow? yeah, i mean kate, thanks for having me on. putin doesn t care about this trial. we know that he has very little respect for ukraine as a country, he doesn t respect president zelenskyy and he certainly doesn t respect the
very significant losses inflicted on the russians by the ukrainians in a counter attack there and another counterattack going on around kharkiv, to the northeast there, pushing the russian forces back so far that they ve actually destroyed bridges as they ve been retreating, indicating they re giving up entirely on ever trying to get involved in the fight again for kharkiv. but i think the most significant kind of analysis does come from oleksandr busae saying they need more troops and those problems are going to become more apparent for the ukrainians. thank you for that analysis, the first war crimes trial on a russian soldier now under way, outfront with us in kyiv with all the details, i warn you, some of what you might see may be disturbing. reporter: still at war with russia, but already fighting for
in our world lead, the kremlin says russia will cut off gas powered electricity exports to finland as of tomorrow. now, russia is claiming this is due to late payments, but the timing, we should note, comes just one day after finland publicly expressed support for joining nato. which russia, of course, opposes. in ukraine today, the first war crimes trial against a russian soldier began, a 21-year-old russian is charged with killing an unarmed 62-year-old civilian riding a bicycle. the trial in the capital city of kyiv comes as ukrainian forces have taken back control of several villages near kharkiv. new satellite images show three bridges demolished in the area. likely as a counteroffensive as ukrainian forces advance in the region. nick paton walsh is in kharkiv where ukrainian forces are making those gains.
justice. ukraine s opened its first war crimes trial, a 21-year-old russian soldier, accused of shooting an unarmed on the fourth day of the war, so far, identified 439 alleged war crimes according to the country s prosecutor, include the massacre of 300 unarmed civilians in bucha and the killing of many hundreds of civilians, mainly women and children in the siege of kharkiv. we have now some evidences that commanders give the orders to shot civilians. but from other side, we understand that ordinary soldiers have the own responsibility for these atrocity. and that, says ir irena venedictova is a message that needs to be sent now so russians understand there will be no impunity even as the fighting in regions like luhansk