Carefully. the video cuts. we re still looking at the same location, but now there are at least six captured men on the ground, purportedly ukrainian defenders. we can see the russian soldiers are marked with the white armbands and the white leg bands. and we have a series of soldiers who appear to be prisoners that are on the ground. we don t know where these soldiers have come from. what s the plan here once they ve got these guys? they ve been told to take off their body armor so that they ve been stripped of essentially their kind of fighting capability immediately. we have here a russian soldier which looks like he s giving physical abuse to a prisoner of war that s on the ground, just out of sight. they re looking for individuals of interest. they re looking for individuals of intelligence interest. and they ll get taken away for questioning. see that soldier kicking that man. yes. quite normal. but it s interesting where they re going to next, they ll get crowds in a p
Ground. p proportedly, ukrainian defenders. you see the russian mill itary marked with the white arm bands. we don t know where the soldiers came from. what s the plan here once never got these guys. they have been told to take off of their body armor. so they have been stripped of their fighting capability immediately. we have here a russian soldier which looks like he is giving physical abuse to a prisoner of war just out-of-sight. they are looking for individuals of interest. individuals of intelligence interest and they will get taken away for tactical questioning. see that soldier kicking that man. yes, quite normal. but it s interesting where they are going to next. they will get put in a prisoner of war pen. and within that pen, they will get starched in more detail, questioned and moved to a
Of intelligence interest. and they ll get taken away for tactical questioning. see that soldier kicking that man. yes. that s quite normal, but it s interesting where they re going to next. they ll get crowded in a prisoner war pen. within that, they ll get searched in more detail. they ll get questioned and then they ll get moved to essentially a prison system. reporter: the ukrainian military s effective use of turkish made drones helped it beat back russian troops around kyiv and other areas. now the kremlin wants the world to believe it s capable of the same success. what we re witnessing is that the russians are being much slower to pick up the use of tactical drones than ukrainians are. so are you saying the message here is look, we re really good at using drones, too? i believe it is. what we also have here is propaganda material. this is really effectively staged propaganda material. it s unclear when this footage is shot but russian troops are now largely in cont
Program. nbc news justice correspondent pete williams is in washington, d.c. he is following this story closely for us. what can you tell us? this is a three judge panel of the d.c. court of appeals. it says the cia can t simply refuse to say that it can t confirm or deny that it has any kind of records. the court said that position has been completely undercut by public statements about the drone program made by the president, made by leon panetta when he was director of the cia, and john brennan when he was the white house counter terrorism adviser. the court says that given these acknowledgement that s the u.s. has participated, it doesn t make any sense for the cia to say that it would reveal anything that is not already in the public domain, to at least say it has an intelligence interest. then here s a statement from what the court said today. it that those statements make it implausible that the cia does not possess a single document on the subject of drone strikes. now, this