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WAR CRIMES. HOLD FOR DAN ADAMS APPROVAL The Ukrainian flag flies above the graves at the new cemetery in Bucha. Over 1300 civilians in Bucha and surrounds were killed by Russian soldiers when they occupied the town 30km northwest of Kyiv. Russian forces committed a litany of apparent war crimes during their occupation from March 4th to 31st. According to Human Rights Watch there is evidence of summary executions, other unlawful killings, enforced disappearances, rape and torture. The laws of war prohibit wilful and indiscriminate killing, torture, enforced disappearances, and inhumane treatment of captured combatants and civilians in custody. Anyone who orders, or deliberately commits such acts, or aids and abets them, is responsible for war crimes. Bucha, Ukraine. 23rd June, 2022. Photo: Kate Geraghty

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War crimes in Ukraine

In a four-part investigation, we go inside Ukraine to reveal how prosecutors will build their case for a prosecution against Russia. Anthony Galloway and Kate Geraghty report.

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Vira Andreyeva at the family home that was impacted by shelling from Russian forces.

Inside the Ukraine war crimes investigation, Part 4: the destruction

Russian aerial attacks have destroyed large parts of Ukraine. Investigators say the damage will be used in a war crimes prosecution.

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4500 homes in Barvinkove have been damaged or completely destroyed. The bulk of the town’s 8000 residents have already fled.
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4500 homes in Barvinkove have been damaged or completely destroyed. The bulk of the town’s 8000 residents have already fled.

A man walks past the ruins of an apartment building complex destroyed by a Russian missile strike in the town of Borodyanka.
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War crimes in Ukraine - The Destruction

Across Ukraine countless civilians have lost their homes, their loved ones and their livelihoods since the Russian invasion began.

Alyona Lapchuk at a relative’s home in Kyiv before travelling to give evidence at The Hague about her husband Vitaliy Lapchuk’s torture and murder by Russian soldiers in Kherson.
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Inside the Ukraine war crimes investigation, Part 3: The resistance

Outnumbered and outgunned, a brave few Ukrainian civilians have fought back against the Russian onslaught, forming resistance units to defend homes and loved ones.

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Families of resistance fighters killed by Russian invaders pick up the pieces of their shattered lives.
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Families of resistance fighters killed by Russian invaders pick up the pieces of their shattered lives.

Olekdsndr Fayizov, 41yrs a civilian computer technician demonstrates where Russian soldiers beat his head against the blood stained wall of a room used as a cell in the basement of the Trostyanets railway station used by the Russians as a base, where he was interrogated and tortured.
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Gallery - Inside the torture cells of Ukraine

Survivors reveal torture, beatings and killings they have endured and witnessed in Ukrainian basements.

Ivan, 62, stands in the doorway of a basement room in a school in Yahidne where nearly the entire village of 371 people were held. The seven names on the wall are of those who died.
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Inside the Ukraine war crimes investigation, Part 2: Torture cells

A railway station basement and a schoolroom still show telltale signs of their transformation into places of torture for those who know where to look.

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Nataliya Kulakivskiy with her missing loved ones. From top right: nephew Vladyslav Bondarenko; brother-in-law Serhiy Lyubych and husband Yevhen Kulakivskiy, Bondarenko is now confirmed dead.
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Inside the Ukraine war crimes investigation, Part 1: The Missing

When most of Ukraine is a crime scene, who will bear witness to mass atrocities? We reveal some of the victims who want to tell the world what happened.

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Natalia Kulakivska sits at her home in Bucha where she waits for news of her missing husband Yevhen Kulakivsky. Natalia's husband Yevhen along with her brother-in-law Serhiy and nephew Vladyslav, all civilians were captured by Russian soldiers in Bucha, taken to Hostemel where they were beaten and interrogated. According to a fellow civilian prisoner Boris Popov who was with them that while they were being transported Vladyslav tried to escape and was killed by Russian soldiers. Yevhen and Serhiy were transported through Belarus to Russia. Natalia has not recieved any official confirmation that her husband are being held prisoners in Russia.
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Through our lens: Kate Geraghty captures the victims of Russia’s war

While most of Ukraine is a crime scene, thousands of people have disappeared. We speak to the victims of these war crimes, who want the world to know what happened.

Boris Popov.
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Watch video: The Ukrainians interrogated, tortured and held in Russian prisons

Boris Popov was interrogated and held for weeks in a Russian jail before being exchanged in a prisoner swap. Here he tells his story.

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