i think this is clearly is genocide. russian president vladimir putin has appointed a new commander to oversee his country s entire military. this general will just be another author of crimes and brutality against ukrainian civilians. ukraine will never be subjugated to russia, it doesn t matter which general president putin tries to appoint. ukrainians evacuating and bracing for an onslaught government officials believe on the horizon. trucks moving with self propelled grenade launchers, artillery pieces. they re going down into the donetsk and luhansk regions. as many as 4,000 people were here at the kramatorsk railway station waiting to be evacuated when there was a large blast overhead that rained down thousands of pieces of shrapnel.
forces to their knees in the campaign in syria. whatever the message that president putin is seeking to send, it is believed that he is seeking to send it ahead of a may 9th, self-appointed deadline in the hope of, again, with one eye to propaganda and disinformation, tieing it to russia s successes against nazi germany on may 9th and delivering a victory parade in russia s red square. it s going to be a very scary time as the offensive in the east of the country continues to escalate. and ukrainians are continuing to understand their friends, their supporters around the world for help and they need it now more than ever, pamela. all right, thanks nima, we appreciate it. let s bring in cnn military analyst wesley clark, retired army general and former nato supreme allied commander.
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armed forces. he s been well-known by u.s. intelligence after leading russian forces in syria, even learning the name the butcher of syria for his treatment of civilians. what we have learned in the first several weeks of this war is ukraine will never be subject to russia. doesn t matter which general president putin tries to appoint. officials say the russians are working to resupply their forces in the donbas region, the southeastern part of the country. the u.s. believes this is part of a strategy shift as they reposition fighters away from the northern section of ukraine. it wouldn t surprise anybody that they re trying to organize themselves better for a more specific set of target objectives. russia is also claiming that they ve had success in taking out an anti aircraft missile system. u.s. officials have no proof it was taken out. while the russians are saying