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good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight, the horror. ukraine s ministry of defense releasing these jarring and grotesque images. this is before and after. the soldier here is ukrainian. the image on the left is him taken during the siege of the azostal steel plant. that is when they were hunkered down not getting the full food and water that they needed. but there he was fighting. and on the right four months later, that is him now, starved, deformed. it is not even possible to imagine what happened to that man. and yet that picture is the reality. it is how russia is treating human beings. and you can t look the other way when you see that. it comes as putin has taken the war to a whole new level today running a sham election in parts of ukraine that are kind of under russian control. i ll show you the ballot. it reads just one question. the wording varies depending on the region. are you in favor of seceding from ukraine and joining the russian federation? and dow
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exchanged this week. on the left you can see before his unit surrendered in may and on the right what he looks like now. emaciated with apparent severe weight loss. earlier one expert said russia is finding loopholes in existing laws of war adding that the laws have to change. listen to this. when this war is over the whole international law on war crimes will have to be rewritten because the russians are coming up with new ways that they haven t seen in the existing legislation. there is no word on what exactly happened to the ukrainian soldier during his captivity. in russia, some of the people who have protested the military s mobilization are being forced to join it. that is according to a rights group which says many demonstrators were conscripted this week after speaking against the draft. matthew chance has more on the mobilization process. [ crying ] reporter: in the darkness,
case. deformed, tortured, starved. these are pictures out of auschwitz is what we re essentially looking at. you have been geolocating and specifically tracking war crimes. i have to say that my own feeling is that after this war is over, the whole international law on war crimes will have to be rewritten because the russians are coming up with new ways that haven t even been foreseen in existing legislation. part of that is because there are so many unchartered, not only wagner, there may be more. they re recruiting people from jails, from prisons who are given a free-out-of-jail card if they die on the battlefield. so all of this is almost unseen before. what we see is at this very moment we ve counted more than 1,500 incidents of civilian harm. the large majority of that comes