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Targeting. what has been difficult in many cases is tying specific leaders, specific generals to some of these alleged war crimes, and that could be key to carrying out some prosecutions. no question because you want to get not just the soldiers, the lower ranking ones but get the higher rankings ones who issued the orders. the use of them is a war crime. in a two-month long investigation cnn can reveal the commander responsible for those attacks and a string of atrocities he s committed not just in russia s latest war in ukraine but also going back to 2014 when russia first invaded ukraine as well as in syria. cnn chief international investigative correspondent has this exclusive report. a warning, you may find some of the images in the story disturbing. reporter: a devastation of ....
Video from the azov regiment, sho. we can assume the video isn t recent because russian forces have largely pulled out from that area. but what are you seeing when you look at this fight? don, talk about close combat. this is one of the most impressive, real combat pieces of video that i ve seen in a long time. what you re looking at here is an industrial site. you see this right here? that s a grenade launcher that is being used directly against enemy combatants, which are right over to the edge right there. they were kind of in this smoky area right there. and you see remnants of some of the rockets that have hit. it is, you know, clearly a scene of complete devastation. there s a manhole cover, what looks like a manhole cover there, where they probably quo d go into the tunnels below the azovstal plant. this is one of those areas where ....
International law. you can see more artillery rockets apparently fired from russian territory towards the territory i would say around kharkiv. i don t know if you can hear this right now. reporter: this is the start of the war. cnn s senior international correspondent fred pleitgen witnessed artillery being fired from inside russia within jer avenue love s district, toward the city of kharkiv. sam kiley was in kharkiv and could hear the shelling moments later. could feel the concussion against the glass. reporter: we soon learned from experts these were smart rockets. this is what they re capable of delivering. cluster bombs. one smart rocket releasing many smaller explosives, scattering bombs, amplifying the devastation. these attacks captured on social media both in kharkiv and both from the same day are a clear example of their indiscriminate nature. when used in this fashion ....
String of atroszcities he has committed. cnn s international investigative correspondent nima elbagir has the exclusive report. a warning, you might find some of the images in her report disturbing. reporter: a devastation of civilian homes and lives. throughout the last two months, we have witnessed atrocities in ukraine. more mortar strikes very, very close. they want us to start moving. while we know these are russian actions, it s been difficult to draw a direct line from individual atrocities to a specific russian commander until now. cnn can exclusively reveal that this man, colis the commander responsible for this. munitions targeting civilians in the city of kharkiv, east ukraine a war crime under ....
Flying and that they were accompanied by fighter planes or drones. you can see the hole that it came through. you can see the way that the rocket buckled when it hit the car. you can also very clearly see that this is a smirch. it s not the only rocket coming from this direction on this day. less than a half mile down the road, another hit. helping to situate us, this ki kiosk, that water cooler. those blue doors you see, that s where the cluster munition shrapnel embedded. this video filmed moments after the attack where four people, including a child, were killed. another smirch launching cluster bombs. we know this because one of the unexploded bombs was found only 280 yards away. notice the date, 2019. russia stopped selling arms to ukraine in 2014. this confirms this is a russian ....