joining me now is one such woman who decided to stay and resist, kira rudyk and a member of the politicalmorning, kira. i want to ask you, one of the things you mentioned earlier is that you had, and i quote, that you have a resistance team of 30 people and your house had become basically similar to the barracks, training to fight and it gives you a sense of control and power. can you talk about that situation? is it still happening in your home? >> thank you very much for having me. well, right now on the day, 52 of the war we are much more organized than the last couple of weeks and people are not only here at my home. they are living with the ukrainian army and they are a part of the different resistance team, but at the very beginning, we did gather here anding for the first 50 days we were training here like a resistance team two hours a day. we were training to bear arms, to shoot, to fire. we did some tactical trainings so that we will be the most useful to other country in all of the possible ways, and for me, personally, it was so extremely important that if the russians would co

my next guest is kira rudyk and she encapsulated when she tweeted we're holding on to too many thingshristmas choir sweaters are going to a family, and michelle, kira's cat isn't going anywhere. she's a leader of the holos political party, an opposition party. she learned to fire and use a gun weeks ago in order to stay in ukraine and to help fight for her country. ms. rudyk, thank you for joining us. it's good to see you again and i'm saddened by the milestone of how regularly and how long we've been talking and anne applebaum said something to me, ukraine has a dynamic political system. in normal times people fight, you disagree and you're an opposition leader and you have policy disagreement, but yet you have come together in this moment against a common enemy and taken up arms and i guess hopefully you'll get back to being normal, you know, in a normal political discourse onesie one day and it's a lesson to behold how you political bodies in ukraine have been affected by this war. >> hello, ali. thank you so much for having me again. so right now even though i'm a leader of an opp

lawmaker kira rudyk has also been collecting evidence of hidden crimes. the weapon wielded behind closed doors, rape. >> i want to know their names and last names because i want them to be accountable. >> the stories from these occupied towns are nauseating. mothers forced to watch their sons and daughters violated. soldiers raping women in front of their children. soldiers who also have mothers back home in russia. >> i don't, like i don't think that once you rape a child you think that at some point you will-- you will wsh hotline set up has been overwhelmed. more than 15,000 calls a day says ukraine's human rights chief lyudmila denisova. >> it's hard to believe this is happening in the 21s century, she told us. but today another mass grave. fresh new torment. in busova near kyiv, the daughter of one of the victims held back by police to prevent her seeing the crimes russia is trying to hide. >> and debora patta joins us now, debora when you hear words like genocide and extermination could the international court successfully prosecute putin for war cr

kira rudyk, i thank you for participation in our broadcast, a people's deputy of ukraine , the head ofe voice answered all our questions honestly. thank you for taking the time, and vera blanche should be in touch with us by now. photo documentary filmmaker , yes, they wrote to me. vera, we congratulate you. good day , i'm glad to see you here. about you wrote i am mutually glad to see you, a former fashion photographer with experience working in british and italian glossy magazines. and now the photo is a documentarian of military white photography. and you are accredited in the armed forces of ukraine, well, everyone journalists have to be accredited there, who works in the field, who works in the war, both photographers and cameramen and journalists, and why did you change even these very glossy, well, very solid magazines to the war, it is very dangerous, first of all, because the war happened , because somehow other ukrainians can't do anything now . unfortunately, except to illuminate or help in some way to win, and that's who i am. i think even well, i didn't hesitate when i did

i'm joined now by the ukrainian mp kira rudyk. thanks forjoining us.d nations secretary—general here and he is meeting president zelensky today, what you think his visit can achieve? the zelensky today, what you think his visit can achieve?— zelensky today, what you think his visit can achieve? the bare minimum is caettin visit can achieve? the bare minimum is getting peeple _ visit can achieve? the bare minimum is getting peeple out _ visit can achieve? the bare minimum is getting people out from _ visit can achieve? the bare minimum is getting people out from the - visit can achieve? the bare minimum is getting people out from the city i is getting people out from the city of the besieged city of mariupol, and i do not believe his visit can achieve peace or persuade putin to stop the atrocities, but the minimum we need right now from the world leaders is to make sure that desperate people from the city of mariupol can get out. and for that we are really thankful to the secretary—general. we are really thankful to the secretary-general.- we are really