cars, to streets. they are lying on the concrete, with children walking around. they could find these bombs because children do not know what is that. this is definitely a war crime. any killings of civilians during the war is a war crime. different definitions but just to give you the idea. violations of rules of war, and injury of civilians, it s different than war crime. what type of injury could be. it could be occasional, inoccasional torture, deliberate injury of the population. all right. yuri, thank you so much for your time this evening. best of luck in your investigations there. we re going to have much more from ukraine this hour. but up next, the breaking news in the united states. that manhunt is still under way for the subway mass shooter. police in new york city are now asking for your help in finding
the war crime is mostly, there are so-called rules of war. it means that if the two countries, or one country there s a conflict and two sides are fighting with each other, they should follow definite rules. first of all, they shouldn t for any reason injure civilians. what has been done in kharkiv, for example, where they just bombed houses, where people live. not military camps. not military units. just according to their so-called rules of war. but to bomb civilian houses, to send rockets in front of, those are a war crime. in kharkiv, which is in eastern ukraine, they just bomb with so called different types of mines and mines are everywhere there. they use special parachutes when they bomb just dropping down to
going, even through this invasion. ali? raf, thank you for that. we appreciate, it s good to see you. nbc s raf sanchez, here in lviv, ukraine with me. in 1990, a representative the and ivs of more than 190 countries met in rome for a five-way conference to discuss the creation of an entity that would prosecute international crimes. that conference resulted in what was known as the roman statute, a doctrine that guides the work of the international criminal court. the rome statute identified undefined for core distinct international crimes. genocide is described as, quote, the attempt to destroy, in whole or import a national, ethical or racial or religious group. crimes against humanity more broadly refers to act committed against any civilian population as part of a widespread or systematic attack. war crimes is the violation of the internationally accepted rules of war, such as a geneva conventions, during that conduct of a war.
up, right? to maintain the moral high ground, don t violate the rules of war. how do you do that? how do you manage that? even as they witness what russia is doing? you got to have training in advance, you got to have people understanding the rules, you got to have command visibility over their actions. but i will tell you, this fighting in ukraine is so brutal, so personal, so painful for these people that i m not excusing it, but it is not unexpected. people the russians are executing ukrainian soldiers, executing civilians, doing horrible things. and the passions are running very high. so i would urge ukrainian chain of command to do everything they can to restrain their own soldiers. those captured russian soldiers need to be interrogated and they re an important intelligence source, don t do anything else to them. once again, reminder, just the horrors of war.
some point if that is at all a lever they can use as a tool to get vladimir putin to stop the fighting at some point. using the lever of whether or not he would be charged as a war criminal. if that is something they can do. now the u.s. is not a direct party, not a prosecutor in these cases. it s done separately. and so that s why you re hearing officials use the terms personally making that assessment. any human being looking at this situation can make that kind of a judgment but there are officials who have that as their job to do. and as awful as war is, there are rules of war and there are codes that typically state actors follow when they are engaged in warfare. and as we are watching this unfold, we re seeing russian offensive going after civilians. it would appear, based on the targeting, based on the absence of military targets nearby and that would be a violation of those rules of war.