the chinese in their policy, and in this context it is clear that the visit of the minister of justice of the united states will stimulate this process and organize this process, and this is a very important visit . the main task of the americans today is to help ukraine collect the evidence correctly and qualitatively and now a group of lawyers is working here in ukraine. it is a joint group of american and european groups of lawyers and experts who are currently making this assessment. they travel around different settlements and talk to the residents of those who remained assess the state in general, and they, um , you, everything that happened in those places, and they compile the data in order to later transfer those data to the court, so the work of european and american experts here is very fundamental and understandable that the minister of justice

wants to lead the sts and encourage the international investigators in ukraine with this, so to speak, is definitely very important for the independent collection of evidence of potential war crimes. i know that today you were in the village of moschun in the kyiv region. this village which the russians actually destroyed. tell me what you saw there and what testimonies you heard from eyewitnesses. you know yulia. it was very, very difficult to be there because when you see small children running around these fields. because all that is left of them is practically only their ruins own buildings, to talk to those people who lost absolutely everything, you can't talk to them without words, and to the women and men i talked to, they say that there was really no reason for the russians to bomb and destroy precisely in

this settlement because there were no military facilities there, but when the russians left , they practically bombarded with rockets, this is this city, and now it's just ruins, general ruins . i was in those basements where these people were hiding. it's an incredible sight how they stayed there for a few days and then had to be organized to leave this city, and in fact only this saved them, as they say, from the same thing that happened in bucha, that is, they decided very organized community they they decided to leave there and but when they returned there, the destruction was simply incredible, they were left with nothing, and even now they say that it is too early to rebuild it all, because they do not know whether it is already there or whether the

risk that they will come there again has already disappeared the russians and they say that in fact, uh, they uh, as experts tell them that phosphorous bombs were used there, i spoke with one of the former ato soldiers who says that they were used one hundred percent in terms of quality and appearance, how they burned, they burned these buildings they say that phosphorus nuclei were used there, and in fact this only indicates that the population was directly destroyed and that this is a war crime. yuliya myroslava, the fraternal prime minister of borzhdjonson, who visited ukraine last weekend, spoke of the danger that the world will begin to tire of the war in ukraine, what do the people you talk to say about it in kyiv and in those cities where you literally happen to be now well, in fact, these people today need a lot of support, they need er support

moral, they need financial support , especially financial, because without this support, this country will not be able to cope with the challenge, and they emphasize again and again, i am talking to the military, and i am recording many of them. once again, they emphasize that there is constant, uninterrupted strategic support for ukraine both in the financial sphere and the investment sphere, as well as in the military defense sphere. it is simply key, and they say , of course, we fight for our territories, we usually fight for e in order to protect our people, our population, but er, but we are also fighting for freedom in the world, and er, these people are also very grateful here, they say that they are very grateful for the help that er provides today, but in fact, the quality of this help and quality supplies is enough supplies it still raises a lot of questions, especially among the military leaders of the ukrainian

military, and in fact, this communication component of communication from the ukrainian military to the american to the european is very important and it is now very important. it is very good to establish that the americans actually provide the ukrainians with what is actually very necessary. nato and other european countries also what is necessary today on the front lines in order to help and strengthen the ukrainians on the line. thank you, myroslava, for the communication from kyiv. she was with us. myroslava gongadze, head of voice of america in eastern europe bureau, previously merry garland the us justice minister spoke in support of the ministry of justice handing over part of the funds from the confiscated assets to ukraine of russian oligarchs, this required changes to the legislation, but it would allow some funds to be directed simply to ukraine

. a number of legislators are also in favor of such an idea, and a former high-ranking official holds the and now the director of malicious policy at the george w. bush presidential center, de pozryimer explains why he advocates the confiscation of a larger number of russian assets to to which the us has access, the administration, together with our allies, is considering whether it is worth not only freezing russian assets, but also confiscating them , we are talking about something in the region of three hundred billion dollars of russian foreign exchange reserves to which europe and the united states have access i support the idea of ​​not just freezing these assets but confiscating them i am a little confused as to how we can allow russia not to pay for the damage it has done to ukraine there is concern that if we do this we will scare away others countries to place their currency reserves in the usa what can i say do not invade another country if you are china do not attack taiwan thank you

the un security council on tuesday held another briefing on the situation in ukraine topic the discussion became the issue of incitement to violence that leads to brutal crimes, the participants also talked about how hate speech and misinformation were one of the causes of the conflict in ukraine, during the meeting the special adviser of the un secretary general on the prevention of genocide alisa vaymiru derita, head of the ukrainian center for strategic communications and information security, spoke love tsibulska and also gerald cohen, the ceo of the company whose goal is to invest in projects that allow solving geopolitical problems and to prevent digital attacks many participants

spoke about the role of technology and social media in the limited company of inciting violence and hatred and spreading misinformation it is clear from what we have heard and instinctively know that aggressors use hate speech and disinformation to incite mistrust, division and ultimately fuel violence we we see how russia behaves when it conducts its unprovoked war against ukraine. let me explain that we strongly reject russia's constant efforts to distort history for its own political purposes should also be done and the security council general assembly has already rejected false russian narratives and its disinformation about the situation in ukraine and other neighboring countries when it slanders its neighbors by representing them as neo-fascists and neo-nazis, this lie is particularly blatant and harmful because it actually distracts from serious, critical global efforts

to combat actual anti-semitism and violent extremism by reporting the rape of women, girls, men, and boys began to appear almost immediately after the start of the full-scale war of russia against ukraine, specially the representative of the un secretary general on issues of sexual violence in conflict conditions, lyma patin, personally visited ukraine and signed an agreement with the government on the prevention of violence, what are the real scales of these crimes and why rape is the cheapest weapon of pjsc - said in an interview with iryna solomko the clown vitaya could you provide updated data on how many cases of sexual violence have already been documented by you in ukraine thank you drew attention to the problem of sexual violence. it is important that these crimes are not shrouded in silence and impunity, but i am not very sure of the importance of the numbers

. it is important to work on prevention protection and service delivery also i can say for sure that all the warning signals are flashing red when it comes to sexual violence it was only a few days after the invasion that they started to appear the first reports of sexual violence and now that we have passed the student mark we continue to receive more and more as these terrible crimes continue i can only provide you with data that has been verified by the un and as you understand during active hostilities monitors the management group of the un high commissioner for human rights people who are tasked with documenting evidence and making checks are not easy to work as of june 3, we have registered 124 cases, the verification process is ongoing, but this is only the tip of the iceberg. unfortunately, we we are dealing with crimes, the number of which is chronically understated, so for me the data is irrelevant, because this is a crime that the victims do not want

to report due to stigma, shame, alienation, and fear of revenge, and in the context of ukraine, which is an active battlefield, this is also the issue of the impossibility of reporting, and i discussed this is with colleagues from the monitoring group. they said that they were speeding up the verification process, despite all the restrictions . the reported cases indicate that the crimes took place where russian soldiers, as well as colleagues, noted that people actively shared information about other crimes, such as shootings, but when it comes to sexual violence, there is a reluctance to talk, according to the humanitarian work on the ground, for every case that is reported, there are at least 20 cases that are not reported, so one of my calls to the victims, which i voiced when i was in kyiv, do not remain silent, because what we document today and tomorrow will lead to accusations, despite the fact that there are numerous efforts to ensure justice and responsibility to ensure that impunity will not

become the norm if the victims do not speak about it, it is difficult there is information that women, girls, boys and men and elderly women were raped . where did this information come from human rights defenders? what picture do you see and how different is it from other conflicts? i do not see a special differences, every time there is a conflict, we see a new wave of sexual violence, reports on ukraine are still being verified, but there are already confirmed cases that i can share about the brutal sexual violence about gang rapes about sexual violence against men and boys came to my attention the case where an 11-year-old boy was raped in front of his parents i had a meeting with the prosecutor general of ukraine who is doing an excellent job and she shared with me some details of the cases they include for example , gang rapes of women and girls in basements in

mariupol, the question why is sexual violence used, it happens, the perpetrators know that it is a cheap weapon for free they know that the victim will not report the violence and they will enjoy complete impunity and they know that this is an effective weapon. god, by oppressing a woman or a girl, a man or a boy, they not only harm the victim, but also harm the family and society, tearing them apart. do you have data on human trafficking avenues currently i do not have figures on cases of human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation, we know that con increase the vulnerability of women and girls in this context and this conflict is no different as refugees and there is a crisis of human trafficking as part of this crisis because people entered poland, moldova and other countries without any systematic registration because the movement took place on an unprecedented scale and speed human trafficking is one of the most sophisticated and organized crimes and when the majority of refugees are ukrainian women and children

remain receiving communities without any system of verification when you see how these people are picked up by private transport without any system of verification so all the ingredients are olds we have already mentioned the office prosecutor general, how does coordination between you and ukrainian offices and public organizations work? on may 3, prime minister olga stefanyshina signed the regulation on cooperation with the government of ukraine. she immediately created an interdepartmental working group. we have a coordination center next month. work with the group, it will also include other key un agencies that will work on the implementation of the cooperation framework, how difficult is it for you to work in ukraine with uh, the situation in the country is stable, i spent one night and half a day in a bunker in lviv, the un has reduced, for example , the number of its personnel in kyiv, most people

are currently in lviv, unfortunately, the process of verifying crimes is slow because it must be done correctly, and again, this is connected with access to the territory and the safety of personnel in the context of the issue of bringing to responsibility experts claim that in the case of the war in ukraine, the perpetrators are in russia and this is a huge problem on the way to justice and their punishment peoples to be prosecuted in the context of sexual violence has never been easy and that is why we see how impunity is the norm and justice is a rare case, but i think that the war in ukraine and what distinguishes it is the mobilization and multiple efforts of a number of countries to intensify actions aimed at strengthening responsibility for crime and i think that this can only be a positive sign because today's documentation is tomorrow's accusation so at least we are trying to increase the chances because without documentation there will be no prosecution there will be no justice so i am optimistic about

the chances of bringing the perpetrators to justice and therefore i also call for the application of universal jurisdiction by all countries we need justice within the framework of individual countries but we must also think about international prosecution in 2022 impunity cannot remain the norm and we must send a strong signal to the perpetrators of rape a woman or a child, a man or a boy, that this crime will not go unpunished, thank you for the interview, the world must continue to support ukrainians who take the main blow of russian aggression cannot be stopped or given up, american senators democrat jinchagin and republican rock portman spoke about this during the conference on the defense of ukraine at the dortmund college of the united states. here are their words: if we do not stop putin now in ukraine, it will have serious negative consequences for

the world system that is based on rules and laws and what is happening is being watched very carefully not only by our allies but also by our adversaries such as iran and china if putin gets the green light they decide what to do now it is possible, the usa does not do it alone , 42 countries of the world have joined in the defense of ukraine, some provide military aid to others, economic, but this is really an effort of the entire democratic world. the united states continues to accept refugees from ukraine . kharkiv oblast, kyiv oblast , donetsk and luhansk oblasts, our cross on shevchenko attended the event, this is an unusual american picnic in the park of the city of san diego, which in the state of california is waiting for ukrainian refugees, the

event was organized by american volunteers, some of them recently returned from the ukrainian-polish border, where they saw hundreds of ukrainian families fleeing the war, this is traumatic, this is traumatic, what happened is traumatic, what they went through, sometimes only small acts of kindness can support them in a way that provides a lot of comfort for the refugees, only home-made ukrainian food is waiting for them, specially prepared for their compatriots by representatives of the ukrainian diaspora, says the organizer of the picnic khrystyna shchelkunova we have a threshold with meat and cheese and chicken and we also have the main gift kyiv cake and there will be barbecue and also salads and here are already the first visitors gradually gathering for the picnic about 70 people fled the war from two kyivs almost all of mariupol and luhansk region left for the first time. so far from home when they see ukrainian food, they can't hold back their emotions. games and this is

olive oil. such a ukrainian glass. olena came from kyiv to san diego with two children a month and a half ago. her husband serves in the taroboron, then this what is the island of ukraine like, and there is also a lot of useful information. that is, you can meet the right people here, you can talk to everyone , you can play

. families financially or housing. for example , kelly offered to rent housing for hope and her daughter, who fled twice from kharkiv. i am from a jewish family, and i feel that what something similar to the holocaust is happening in ukraine , and that's why, after learning about nadiya's family, i offered to pay for the apartment rent for four months thanks to kela and other volunteers for nadiya and her daughter, the adaptation process is going more smoothly, help in finding housing, help us, help us, e- they bought me a bicycle and a special seat for the child so that i could travel here without a car, and it is much easier for the situation because i understand that he can go anywhere. was hit by a missile attack, her apartment miraculously survived first, a woman with a child left for europe,

then through mexico to the united states, she says she chose america because she knows english, but she is not thinking about returning to ukraine yet we miss our home very much, but i will say that we are very well we remember where we left and while military operations are going on there, we can't talk about that. by the way, we know people who are no longer there, and we understand that risking the life of a child who was just recently born. well, we simply don't have the right to give a package to every family with soft toys and books, and ukrainian families say that the most valuable thing is the feeling of support in a foreign land, and here they felt it .

are returning home. what is the first thing that motivates them to return? anna kostyuchenko asked three women from kiev. khrystyna left kyiv on the first day of the full-scale russian invasion of ukraine. then like many people from kyiv, she was afraid that the capital might be under russian occupation, which means that her native home would be lost forever, the girl remembers . actually, we went right away because we woke up at 5:15 in order to hear the explosions. i was afraid that we never we will return, of course, i understood very well that i am not one of those people. my family is not one of those people who will accept the occupation, and we understood that the danger was so acute because we will not return. khrystyna left with her parents for the west of ukraine, there is a family there, and spent more than three months although the girl speaks several foreign languages ​​and has a specialist diploma in international relations, she immediately decided not to go abroad, well, purely because this is my native home and because i probably just

did not want to go anywhere else. it was the only place where i most wanted to return, but of course we always they took into account the security aspect and, well, they weighed what now. you can try with the same thoughts . journalist oleksandra shirko returned to kyiv. three months after the start of russia's full-scale aggression in ukraine, she spent oleksandr in lviv. i am convinced of this decision. it seemed difficult at the time, but it turned out to be the right one. morally, when i was leaving, i said goodbye to my previous life because i did not know how it would turn out. i was very afraid that kyiv would be captured, and i immediately told my husband that i would not be able to live, that is and above all, i had no idea that the occupation could be so terrible, that is, yes, we all know how the occupation in the donbas was for 8 years in the crimea, but it cannot even be compared with what they did in buch and irpen, oleksandra says returned to to be around like that however, the girl still shivers from loud noises and does not sleep well at night once i

woke up from the fact that i was just screaming in a dream everything calmed down in the capital thanks to our armed forces thanks to the teroboron that they drove the orcs out of the kyiv region, but there is still anxiety for kyiv anxiety, there will be more rocket attacks, the russian invasion of ukraine did not pass without a trace, and for the ukrainian photo model karolina teren, at the beginning of the hostilities, she tried to leave the city, says the girl, but she did not do it the first time i managed to get a shock out of here. she is also such an active person, but when we were about to go to the station, they started shelling him. she was afraid to stay in the apartment because of the shelling. she found karolina's unexpected shelter in the office of the modeling school, which is located in the basement. well, here we had an improvised kitchen and a dining room, and a hall for actually here, there are even lines for the fashion show, and a mirror

here, together with her friends, karolina organized the volunteer center well, such changes took place, they deal with everything from helping pensioners to the supply of shoes and bulletproof vests to the front lines actually turned out that we had a lot of acquaintances and the terror of the armed forces of ukraine expanded very much. we saw that very, very many people we knew went to this uh, then they started contacting us, that is, by word of mouth, so to speak. we we cooperate a lot with various volunteer centers and volunteer organizations. karolina left kyiv at the beginning of april, when the russian troops had already retreated under shelling, and constant volunteer activity almost led to she recalls a nervous breakdown, and the girl decided to take a rest. she realized that if the war doesn't kill me , stress will kill my nerves. karolina went to spain for a month, during this time she reconsidered her life priorities, she says, in particular, she decided to leave a successful career in modeling and to focus on the new

profession of a psychologist, so they will be able to bring more benefit to people, says karolina . was, but on the other hand, i understood that what happened to me is and will be yes, and it will not go anywhere with any explosions, it is knowledge, it is experience, it is my skills , and the focus has shifted very much, yes, from something more material like this to some intellectual development according to the un since the beginning of the full-scale russian invasion, more than six and a half million ukrainians have become refugees, of which almost 2 million have already returned home, and on kostyuchenko oleksiy yakushev for america's holo from kyiv download the voice of america mobile application

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story will be discussed without exaggeration. it's scary to hear, it can be shocking, but i ask you to watch it. i really hope that you will help us. the search for maksym vasichkin, who disappeared in mariupol under terrible and tragic circumstances, in front of the eyes of this three-year-old boy, the russians shot at his parents, he survived the bombing and shelling, ended up in the occupied territory and is now considered missing, when the war began,

maksymko and his parents lived in the center of mariupol. here in this house shells and even a bomb flew into the house at 75b myru avenue. this is what happened to him in the end, and for several days little maksym and his family sat in the basement of this building and 16 in march, they did not decide to evacuate in their own car, grandmother maxima told me about everything that happened next, she is now in evacuation and is looking for her grandson who was behind the wheel. we have to sit in the back. i sat with my older grandchildren and my daughter sat with my younger grandson . ms. lyudmila says that they taped the car from all sides with stickers with an inscription, the children drove by themselves , that is, not in a special evacuation colony, and almost immediately the russians fired very hard at their car, and when i raised my head, because i bowed my head to the children, i bowed to the elders and

i asked my daughter, just in case, to bend down, and the little girl rubbed her head against her head . then i heard that the little grandson began to ask, uh. the woman had her daughter in her arms because of the strong shock, and the woman does not remember how long they were in the car after the shooting, and she came remember when they were already pulled out of the car by the ukrainian military, they were also seriously wounded in the heart area and shot