Good afternoon. Im the president of the Carnegie Endowment for international peace. It is heartening to me to see so many people in the room and know there are many watching online. This event with the prosecutor general of ukraine comes at a critical moment for ukraine and for the world. Its an important moment because terrible and tragic war that began with an invasion for a tremendous amount of time cost huge amounts of money, the cost to reconstruct ukraine at this point runs probably more than 400 billion. But the human toll of the world is far greater and far more important. We think about more than 500,000 whove been injured in some way or killed. Millions of lives that have been disrupted and continue to be disrupted. For those of us who spent time thinking about international, we know one of the bedrock distinctions for International Law is between combatants and civilians. Those distinctions have been routinely disrespected by the invading power in this case, creating a situa
This conversation was hosted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in washington, d. C. Good afternoon. Im the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. It is heartening to me to see so many people in the room and know there are many watching online. This event with the prosecutor general of ukraine comes at a critical moment for ukraine and for the world. Its an important moment because terrible and tragic war that began with an invasion for a tremendous amount of time cost huge amounts of money, the cost to reconstruct ukraine at this point runs probably more than 400 billion. But the human toll of the world is far greater and far more important. We think about more than 500,000 whove been injured in some way or killed. Millions of lives that have been disrupted and continue to be disrupted. For those of us who spent time thinking about international, we know one of the bedrock distinctions for International Law is between combatants and civilians. Thos
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