vulnerable to drone, artillery and fast moving infantry with anti tank weapons. you can see the results scattered across the roads and villages around the capital. this was a russian supply column on the main highway that runs west from kyiv. the lorries were carrying ammunition. artillery shells are scattered across the road. russia will find logistics less challenging in the east, closer to its border. a few minutes further down the road in the village of kalynivka were a few civilians, a rare sight, so we stopped. iryna kostenko wanted to talk about march 10th, the day the russians killed her only son, alexei. the two lived here, just 500 metres from hisjob changing tyres at a garage. irina led the way to her son s
to destroy a family. iryna found another picture of her son. this is my love, she said, my sweetheart. michael newton is a war crimes expert and former senior advisor to us ambassador at large for war crimes hejoins me now from nashville. what exactly do you think constitutes a war crime? in well, i mean, you just gave the perfect example. it is designed to protect innocent civilians and innocent civilian property from the effects of conflict are the greatest extent possible and that is the perfect example. intentional
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. police have said that multiple shooters were involved in an attack that left six
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.
carrying ammunition. artillery shells are scattered across the road. russia will find logistics less challenging in the east, closer to its border. a few minutes further down the road in the village of kalynivka were a few civilians, a rare sight, so we stopped. iryna kostenko wanted to talk about march 10th, the day the russians killed her only son, alexei. the two lived here, just 500 metres from hisjob changing tyres at a garage. irina led the way to her son s 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.