have a very different concept of time, but this will be a big battle and as we ve been reporting, you ve been reporting, it will be a much more conventional style battle than this slaughtering of innocence we ve seen so far. there s no indication that those features will diminish as the brutality has been rewarded in russia, the soldiers who carried out the atrocities in bucha have been recognized by putin himself. i m sure that doesn t tell you anything new, but what should the rest of us take from that? honestly, nicolle, it does tell me something new. i wrote my first piece about putin becoming an autocrat 22 years ago. i did not expect him to be as evil in the way he is fighting this war and that he has been. let s also remember, they could have cleaned up bucha. they could have hid that. they didn t do that.