Summary
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. Directions : To watch the feature story, click the video above. Or skim the segments from the latest NewsHour by clicking on the image below, and choose the story that works best for your class. Then answer the questions below.
Five Facts
Discussion questions using the Journalist’s Five Ws plus an H:
- Who are some of the individuals or groups of people mentioned in the news summary?
- What stories are covered?
- Where do some of the stories take place?
- When did those stories occur?
- Why did the event(s) take place?
- How do you think the NewsHour’s producers decided which stories made it into the news summary?
Media literacy: Who else do you think should have been interviewed in the story you watched?
