When Russia invaded, Filkina, according to her daughter, helped the people in Bucha and cooked for the Ukrainian military.
She got a red manicure for Valentine’s Day and “drew a heart on her finger because she started to love herself,” her daughter Subacheva told CNN.
The Germans are also collecting evidence
Evidence of war crimes is coming not only from drones and social media, but also from intelligence.
Der Spiegel reports that the BND, Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, has blocked Russian radio chats about the killing of civilians in Bucharest, and that some conversations may be directly linked to Buchate-specific killings that have been documented for the first time since an apparent news release. Genocide there.
German intelligence has satellite images indicating the involvement of Russian troops in the Bucha massacre, the Washington Post reported, citing an unnamed intelligence official, although the paper said radio transmissions were not linked to the location.
Russia continues to spread false information
According to Facebook’s parent company Meta, Russia is apparently trying to tell its own story by hacking the social media accounts of Ukrainian soldiers.
According to Meta, the groups are using tactics such as posing as online journalists and independent news outlets to speak Russian, trying to hack the Facebook accounts of dozens of Ukrainian soldiers, and conducting coordinated campaigns to try to get posts from Russian critics. Removed from social media.
Meta says a hacking group known as “Ghostwriter”, which cyber experts believe is linked to Belarus, tried to hack the Facebook accounts of dozens of Ukrainian military personnel.
Reporting on atrocities
Meanwhile, photos and reporting on Ukrainian soil are documenting what is actually happening.
Julia Kochetova is a Ukrainian photographer who has been covering the war. He told CNN’s Jim Scuto and Poppy Harlow from Kiev on Thursday how he could separate the important mission of documenting atrocities from the pain of witnessing them.
“As a Ukrainian, as a citizen, as a photojournalist, I continue my work. But I also had a strong feeling that what is happening to my country, what crimes are being committed against humanity, is not enough to just testify, it is not enough to document that crime.
He said it was important that Ukrainian journalists bring these images to the world.
“I still have a strong belief that our local voices need to be highlighted because on the ground there are Ukrainian photographers, their real perspectives, real balance and real truth. Because we just don’t know Context, not just language — this is our war; This is our country. ”
Russia denounces UN
Realization of reality is incredibly important in this war. Ukraine and the West have effectively marshalled much of the world by showing that aggression against Russia is unjust, illegal and based on lies about Ukraine.
“The General Assembly has sent a crystal-clear message to the Russian leadership that a government whose military is routinely violating horrendous rights has no place in the UN Human Rights Council,” said Louis Charbonneu, UN director at Human Rights Watch. He called on the United Nations and the International Criminal Court to gather evidence and try war crimes.
“The gruesome images from Bucha have shocked people around the world – victims and their families demanding justice.
The basis for war crimes trials
Significantly, Russian claims about drones and satellite images of bodies being dumped on the streets of Bouche were immediately refuted.
“International criminal investigations often begin with ‘crime grounds’ – proven photographs, witness testimony and other evidence of murder, torture, rape or other prohibited crimes that could constitute war crimes or crimes against humanity – and escalate over a chain of military forces. The commission has the political authority to blame those who ordered such crimes or those who knew but failed to prevent / punish, “said Goldston.
Perhaps the hyper-connectivity of the world in which we live will help us hold the living world accountable to those who threaten it.
