The Russian military is beginning to refocus its assault on eastern Ukraine as Vladimir Putin named an overall military commander for the war, one with a brutal resume of killing civilians and inflicting destruction in Syria. Michael Kofman, senior fellow for Russian studies at the Center for Naval Analyses, joins Nick Schifrin to discuss the next phase of the war.

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