dmytro savchuk voice of america washington story oleksiy kovalenko about the investigation of russian war crimes and at the end of february, according to official data of ukraine , russia illegally took more than 960 civilians as hostages, human rights defenders say that the real number is much higher among the detainees, and many women ex-prisoners say that the conditions of their reception did not differ from the way they were received as received men, they also talk about numerous cases of violence lyudmila huseinova is one of those who managed to return from captivity, she spent a month in the infamous isolation prison and then more than three years behind bars in the donetsk pretrial detention center about her detention , torture, and life as a prisoner, the former hostage told in an interview iryna solomko i congratulate you, mrs. lyudmylo, your pro-ukrainian position was one of the reasons why you were detained in the 19th year, after you had been helping children for many years, this is the moment of your detention understood that it would come because you were a pro-ukrainian

ukraine, more about the weight of the meaning of this decision, let's talk with my colleague oleksiy kovalenko, who is researching this topic . congratulations to oleksii on how important this decision is. bringing russian president vladimir putin to justice for the crime of deportation of ukrainian children and it is very important that it is about personal criminal responsibility and how you in fact, many experts have already noted that this is only the tip of the iceberg, these are only the first investigations carried out by international organizations, and in particular by the international criminal court, and it is important that it is about the crime of deportation of children, because it is at the same time a war crime, it can be considered as an element of a genocidal attack , a genocidal war, and ultimately as part of crimes against humanity, we do not punish people. we remember that the usa recently admitted that russia commits crimes against humanity in ukraine and these warrants for the arrest of putin's tricks and my of love biology were issued on the basis of evidence collected

this was a conversation between oleksiy kovalenko and the head of the center for civil liberties, oleksandraviychuk . you can also read the text version of this conversation on our website. of russian crimes named after rafal lemkin, ukrainians are asked to fill out a detailed questionnaire if they witnessed the deliberate destruction of infrastructure , violence, deportation, everyone is guaranteed anonymity, such testimony is important for the historical archive, but it can also be used as official testimony in court, lesya bakalejka from warsaw will tell in more detail destruction of civil infrastructure , robbery, violence, murder and kidnapping, this is a list of crimes in russia that the lemkin center in warsaw deals with, we collect eyewitness accounts from of civilians about crimes, war crimes and not only what the russian federation has committed in ukraine , the center was created immediately after the start of the full-scale invasion and named after a lawyer of jewish origin, rafal lemkin, who received a higher education at the university of lviv, he introduced the term genocide a

i will remind you that it was oleksiy kovalenko. in the meantime, today the un security council held a meeting on the placement of russian nuclear weapons in belarus, and on april 1, russia will take over the presidency of the subjects around this. there were many debates and discussions that i followed our correspondent in new york, iryna solomko, we will talk about it in more detail, iryna. i congratulate you. thank you for joining the broadcast. first of all, i will ask about the current meeting, which related to russian nuclear weapons in belarus. the statements you drew today's attention to vitay stepa are so wild, such verbal ones continued to occur to a greater extent between the representatives of the united states and russia and they exchanged a number of accusations, but the rhetoric of the russian ambassador vasyl nebedzian was very reminiscent of the classic rhetoric of the cold war and in general , the phrase cold war and what the situation is even worse than during the cold war was heard several times during the meetin

the fight for their return and to develop an appropriate mechanism from new york iryna solomko oleksiy kovalenkoe of america when in in may, the russians destroyed the museum of hryhori skovoroda in kharkiv oblast, the international community was once again convinced of the invaders' intentions to destroy ukrainian culture, although the museum building did not survive, the most valuable exhibits still succeeded skovoroda's sculpture miraculously survived. recently, a similar sculpture of the ukrainian philosopher appeared in washington about the history of the creation of the american mandra skovoroda and the strength of the spirit of ukrainians. the ukrainian community of ichmond, led by grigoriy primak , with a request to immortalize the philosopher for the ukrainian orthodox church, they had no money, no formal organization, nothing apart from a dream, they were real patriots grigory adored the frying pan for him, which seems to many ukrainians skovoroda was ukraine, the spirit of ukraine and a symbol and personification, and he dreamed of erecting a monument to him at that time about grigory

are the most high-profile cases being investigated in the ministry of justice, my colleague oleksiy kovalenko learned in an interview with the director of the angel adamson task force a year ago in march, us attorney general marik garden launched a klepto-capture and appointed the director of this initiative, what was achieved during this year, our task force began work immediately after a full-scale invasion at the end of february , at the beginning of march, we have already assembled a group of lawyers, prosecutors, agents, analysts and specialists from across the u.s. government to focus on two tasks: first , we rushed to seize assets and begin forfeiture procedures of large expensive and movable assets, such as yachts and airplanes, at the same time we knew that in the long term , cases against intermediaries in money laundering of individuals and networks of those who professionally circumvent sanctions and export control may be more important voice of america you mentioned the approximate amount of assets of the russian elites that are under sanctions and that have been seized, it was a