day on the creation of a special tribunal for the top leadership of russia, prosecutor general andriy kostinured this, he reminded that there is still no international institution that can condemn putin and his entourage for aggression, that is why new mechanisms are needed, the world has to unite but the implementation of this idea of ​​creating a tribunal is not just a political position of ukraine - it is not just a position of president zelenskyi and the entire ukrainian government, it is a position of the entire ukrainian people because the crime of aggression was the primary crime committed by the russian federation. if there had been no aggression, there would have been no possibility of committing other war crimes. therefore, this crime should be punished. andriy kostin - prosecutor general of ukraine serhiy a tell me how difficult it is to establish the identity of a war criminal in order to bring him to justice, it is difficult because most of the e-e episodes that are revealed, they are already revealed immediately after dissolution and there are no witnesses, there are no lentils

instructions and the names of those who followed the instructions of putin and his propagandists directly andriy kostinecutor general of ukraine first, it is necessary to systematize the evidence base according to the specified criteria and prove at the national level that these are public calls for genocide and the justification of war, and the international lawyer says that later or immediately the cases will be transferred to the international criminal court . a trial is taking place against the head of a radio station who incited to commit genocide in the soil, and this president proves that it is really possible to bring to justice the newspaper kangora and on the radio thousands of hills were recognized as instruments of crime during the rwandan genocide in 1994, they unequivocally called and incited one part of the hutu population to kill another tutsi, the tribunal has already considered the cases against the key employees of these mass media, they received sentences from 12 to 35 years in prison. however, the case is still ongoing, because one of the participants, the director of the radio sta

andriy kostin is leading ukraine's investigations into war crimes committed by russia following its invasionting pressure on the government in kyiv to start thinking about negotiating, they have the upper hand at the moment. on wednesday, the us top military commander said, as ukraine makes advances on the battlefield and as winter approaches, which would make things much harder for ukrainian forces to fight, this might be the best time for both sides to start thinking about negotiations. publicly, the americans and ukrainians say they are not thinking about a direct negotiation with kyiv at the moment and i have been speaking to andriy kostin, the public prosecutor general for ukraine, a close ally of president zelensky. i asked him about this and he said this is not the time for negotiations. i don't think there is a time for negotiations, especially from the point _ negotiations, especially from the point of— negotiations, especially from the point of view of making russia accountable for the war crimes committee. how can we be in negotiations about war crimes committed by russia and dama

position in berlin will be represented by minister of justice denys maluska and prosecutor general andriy kostin, in addition to them , the ministers of simka will be joined by european commissioner for justice didier reynders and the chief prosecutor of the international criminal court karim khan international criminal law is based on a powerful promise namely war crimes can not to remain unpunished regardless of where they happened and from whoever made them to keep this promise, our duty actually in fifa today its members have already arrived in berlin, well, the official part will take place tomorrow and not at the ministry of justice, which is located literally a few hundred meters away, but here in to the ministry of foreign affairs of germany perhaps because this department has more conditions for holding such international meetings , by the way, this week in berlin the foreign ministers of the group of seven can also gather at least the chief diplomat of germany, anna lena berbuk , invited her colleagues to discuss how the simka can help ukraine restore energy infrastructure tetyana logu

all civilians told in on the air of the national marathon, the prosecutor general of ukraine, andriy kostin found more than 20 kativels where people were beaten and mocked. most of these crimes were committed by the occupiers in kharkiv region of the liberated kherson region, the prosecutor's office has only begun to reveal cases of abuse of ukrainians , they go to the de-occupied territories, risking their lives, all in order to find the bodies of soldiers who died as a result of hostilities, there are not only the bodies of our fallen, but also the bodies of the abandoned russians, they are taking everyone , why diana fedotova will tell when there are no soldiers left in the positions of the old men , they are not left lying in the fields, forest strips and have the status of missing person, search for the bodies of serhiy , a newcomer, he and his friends have been looking for them for 15 years the remains of those who died in the second world war, however, nowadays the conditions in other territories are mined. and where the occupied areas still suffer from shelling , and it is morally m

90% of the dead were at the hands of russian soldiers and civilians, the prosecutor general told andriy kostin, in addition, discovered more than 20 places where the occupiers illegally detained and tortured ukrainians, according to kostin, in almost every city and village of the liberated kharkiv oblast and kherson oblast, law enforcement officers found places where civilians were killed. military administration and added that repairs are currently underway in two more areas, i will remind you, due to damage to the dnipro-mykolaiv water pipeline by russian shelling in the city has not been shut down since april 12, and since may 6, the water supply system has been filled with technical water from the estuary, the repair of the water supply became possible after the liberation of the occupiers in the villages of kiselivka in the kherson region, scheduled power cuts will now be in effect throughout ukraine from eight in the morning until midnight, the schedule of hourly restrictions can be found on the website oblenergo of each region, on the other hand, emergency shutdowns today in ukrenergo a

donetsk, kherson region, almost all of them were civilians , the prosecutor general of ukraine, andriy kostin said on the air of the national marathon, that more than 20 torture chambers were found where people were beaten and abused. the occupiers committed most of these crimes in kharkiv oblast, in relation to the liberated kherson oblast, and the prosecutor's office only began to identify cases of abuse of ukrainians the incredible act of the mother of the dead soldier mariy pishko from rivne region, she did not wait for her son from the war ivan klyuyko died in luhansk region when under fire evacuated my brothers to receive funds after the death of my 35-year-old son in the battle in my native village , mrs. maria from orvya built a modern multi-purpose sports field near the school where she herself taught and her son studied, in his memory , what i earned a lot is enough and that's why i decided so that the memory of me and my son remains, what he planned, it will come to life in our children, in our grandchildren, in the young generation that today will play on this football field witho

punish war crimes at the first meeting of this format, in which the prosecutor general of ukraine andriy kostin is participating. they are discussing how it is more appropriate to coordinate efforts to collect evidence of war crimes committed by the russians. as war crimes independent investigations are also carried out by other countries as the eu commissioner for justice dierenders called for greater cooperation in prosecution of russian war crimes in ukraine, the most important task is to provide eu lawyers with the opportunity to organize a joint investigative team. it is also important to preserve the evidence collected in ukraine and exchange it with prosecutors at the national level at the international criminal court. we are finding out how to strengthen such legal cooperation . tribunal or a special tribunal for the crime of aggression, the first lady of ukraine olena zelenska, who is visiting london , spoke before the parliament of great britain she said that she had come for justice and called for the creation of a special international tribunal regarding the crime of russian aggress

andriy kostin is leading ukraine's investigations into war crimes committed by russia following its invasion. in an exclusive interview in kyiv, he told the bbc�*s catherine byaruhanga any talks would have to hold russian officials accountable for atrocities carried out in ukraine. let's have a listen. i don't think that there is a time for negotiations, especially from the point of view of making russia accountable for war crimes committed. how can we be a negotiations about war crimes committed by russia and russian aggression? russia could be held accountable and when i hear of the issues of gas prices, of inflation, of some fears, i tell our partners, i tell these people, you also suffer from tell these people, you also sufferfrom putin's tell these people, you also suffer from putin's aggression. you want to stop this suffering just to leave ukraine alone with russia. i don't believe that european, american people, or civilised world, is ready for this risk. but we are now, ukrainians, paying the price by our blood, people in europe to live, maybe a little bit worse than they lived befo

andriy kostin is leading ukraine's investigations into war crimes committed by russia following its invasionbe going on behind—the—scenes? is ukraine considering negotiating with russia? , ::, :, , russia? yes, we continue to see ukrainian _ russia? yes, we continue to see ukrainian successes _ russia? yes, we continue to see ukrainian successes on - russia? yes, we continue to see ukrainian successes on the - ukrainian successes on the battlefield, including forcing russia to possibly retreat from the city of kherson. we are seeing continued reports that may be us officials are putting pressure on the government in kyiv to start thinking about negotiating, they have the upper hand at the moment. on wednesday, the us top military commander said, as ukraine makes advances on the battlefield and as winter approaches, which would make things much harderfor ukrainian forces to fight, this might be the best time for both sides to start thinking about negotiations. publicly, the americans and ukrainian say they are not thinking about a direct negotiation with kyiv at the moment and i have been spe

andriy kostyan, investigative work continues in the region, everything that is dangerous is a threat due to the mining of a large number of buildings and mine-laying of communities by the aggressor - kostin said , the gunned down peace, the russians continue to terrorize civilians in donetsk region, another rocket attack was carried out by the enemy, the head of the regional police said in turkish military administration pavlo kyrilenko and to the point that the occupiers' projectiles completely destroyed a kindergarten in the city with the symbolic name of peace in general since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the invaders have destroyed and damaged almost 700 educational institutions in donetsk region. residents of the region are once again called to leave. the attackers have once again fired at the border areas of chernihiv oblast and sumy oblast. in the state border service, four communities came under enemy fire, two in the sumy region and two more in the chernihiv region, fortunately they were spared the victims were noted by the border guard, the power supply of all critical infrastructure facilities was restored, the ukrainian nuclear power plant will start working clos