circle that they cannot act with impunity. reporter: speaking to cnn, former uk prime minister gordon brown said that at the request of ukrainian officials, he s lobbying for a special tribunal modeled on the nuremberg trials of nazi criminals and the tribunal investigating atrocities in the former yugoslavia, like the murder of thousands of men and boys in serb neetsia. how can you realistically can you get officials including vladimir putin into a courtroom? they said it was impossible in 1942 when the allies said they were going to try hitler and his accomplices for crimes what we called crimes against peace. but that happened in nuremberg. reporter: a tribunal creates a legal loophole to prosecute putin and senior officials for the act of invading ukraine itself. a crime of aggression. with the right resources, brown says an indictment could come in months.
treated with suspicion, kept at arm s length by her family in russia because she s against the war. i believe that there is a war in ukraine, and they just treat it as a military operation basically. they believe that the russian army is fighting against nazis like putin says? yes, exactly. that s what they ve been told, and they certainly believe it. and any other information that, you know, i m trying to give them, they think it s fake information. you know, they just think that i m brainwashed. what has this done to you as a person? i m just heartbroken. i feel like i m very hopeless, yeah, because there is nothing i can do or say, you know, to change their minds. i m afraid it s getting already too late because so many people died. reporter: many of those people in the devastated ukrainian city of mariupol, where anna and her family actually have ukrainian cousins, who she has no news from.
further. we will make them broader and sharper so that they cut even deeper into the russian economy. reporter: she also said sanctions would target four key russian banks, including the vtb bank, russia s second largest. she also said that they would target $10.9 billion worth of exports to russia, including high-tech items like quantum computers and rare semiconductors. she also said that they would target russia s shipping, that russian vessels and russian-operated vessels wouldn t be able to use european union ports. this is europe s effort to ramp up the economic pain on russia. nic robertson, cnn, brussels. when we come back, ukrainians here in the west are opening their homes and businesses to those who are fleeing putin s war of choice.
grandmother, and i would like to be back in my town because here everything looks very unfamiliar to me, unknown. it must be tough being a kid and having to go through all this. translator: a bit. reporter: they are, after all, only 11 and 9. but they find themselves having to comfort their much younger siblings. yegor, what do you tell your little sister in the other room when she gets worried? translator: i tell her everything is going to be fine and that it will end soon. reporter: relatively, these children are lucky. thousands of ukrainians, including the nation s youngest, have been killed in putin s brutal war. innocent civilians murdered in their hometowns, in their homes. many more in danger of being next. and that is what motivates soccer club owner oleg. tr translator: i want to change my profession. i bought a rifle. i want to become a sniper.
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