i had to roll him in a carpet. did you say to the russians, why did you kill my son? translation: they were in jeeps with guns. - they killed him and fled. how can i talk to such morons? i want them dead. i want their children to lie like my son. close to where alexei was killed opposite the house, ukrainian troops were salvaging russian ammunition to use it against them. they ll need it if russia launches a spring offensive in the east. five weeks of war, but it only takes a moment to destroy a family. iryna found another picture of her son. this is my love, she said, my sweetheart.
bedroom, damaged by shelling weeks after he was killed. we were the first outsiders she d seen since the russians left on friday, and the story of alexei s death spilt out. translation: the pain is so bad. now i m all alone. my son was young, 27 years old. he wanted to stay alive. alexei was born when iryna was 18. her life has not been easy, but she dreads the future without him. she said he d served in the army, but that day he was going to work at the garage. after they killed her son, she fled and the russian
soldiers took over the house, and judging by the rubbish they left behind them, they were having a good time. loads of bottles of vodka, jack daniels, bell s whisky, beer, you name it. it is hard to understand human behaviour like this, but what makes it really tragic is that there are so many accounts of it happening where russian soldiers have been and are now in ukraine. she sobs. on her own, iryna buried alexei in the garden after she d brought his body back from the road in a wheelbarrow. translation: i covered the grave with a blanket| to protect it from the dogs. he isn t in a coffin. i had to roll him in a carpet. did you say to the russians, why did you kill my son? translation: they were in jeeps with guns. - they killed him and fled. how can i talk to such morons?
after they killed her son, she fled and the russian soldiers took over the house, and judging by the rubbish they left behind them, they were having a good time. loads of bottles of vodka, jack daniels, bell s whisky, beer, you name it. it is hard to understand human behaviour like this, but what makes it really tragic is that there are so many accounts of it happening where russian soldiers have been and are now in ukraine. she sobs. on her own, iryna buried alexei in the garden after she d brought his body back from the road in a wheelbarrow. translation: i covered the grave with a blanket| to protect it from the dogs. he isn t in a coffin.
to destroy a family. iryna found another picture of her son. this is my love, she said, my sweetheart. and earlierjeremy gave us this update on what he s been witnessing in kyiv. there s a pattern of behaviour, lots of stories like that of potential war crimes, now the thing is, how do you prove there is a war crime? there has to be a process of redress. the best recent example was after the wars of former yugoslavia now that took years to accumulate the evidence that got the main perpetrators into jail, and it was authorised by the un security council, where