russia was carrying out atrocities, russia is now saying that these men, who are now in russian custody, are war criminals and nazis, and russian officials say that they want to declare those fighters member of a terrorist group and that they will all be interrogated to see about their involvement in crimes against civilians, presumably ukrainian civilians in mariupol, which they were trying to defend against russia. i guess we shouldn t be surprised that propaganda attempt, considering what happened last week in the first war trial, war crime trial being held by the ukrainian government against a russian soldier. richard engel on the ground in kharkiv. thank you, sir. please continue to be safe. thank you all for being with us this hour. don t forget, our election night special, myself, kristen welker, stream on abc news now, wherever you can get it.
do you think she would be proud of you and what you ve accomplished? i think she would. that s all for this edition of dateline. i m craig melvin. thank you for watching. welcome to the show. i m zerlina maxwell. congressional democrats are asking tech counted companies to save condo that could be used as russian war crimes this becomes evident as they begin their first war trial since the start of the invasion. meanwhile, president biden is working to re-energize the global community in the fight against covid-19, as the u.s. has now passed 1 million deaths due to the virus.
only foreseeable based on the way that russia has prosecuted the war but it is likely that it is part of the policy. there is a war trial that got started yesterday. the darfur trial started yesterday. 20 years after the crimes themselves were committed. 200,000 dead, one lone defendant as the new york times put it. is that realistically how long it takes to go from the gathering of evidence to actually presenting the evidence and having a trial like this? well, it shouldn t. i think the reality is we need to recognize that justice is patient and justice could wait but we don t want to wait 20 years. chuck, i was part of the determination of the genocide in or indicators of genocide in darfur under the leadership of powell and president bush at the time and we had hoped that justice would be achieve quickly
nationalities. in just the last hour, national security adviser jake sullivan said the images coming out of bucha are, quote, evidence of war crimes and that the u.s. and europe are now preparing a new round of sanctions. for its part, the russian government has claimed that the massacre in bucha is, quote, fake and staged by the ukrainians. but the russians have not provided an iota of evidence for this allegation. as the atrocities have sparked outrage around the world and here at home, president joe biden today called for vladamir putin to stand trial. you may remember i got criticized for calling putin a war criminal. well, the truth of the matter is what happened in bucha. this war contains a war criminal. we have to gather information. we have to continue to provide ukraine with the weapons they need to continue the fight, and we have to get all of the detail so this can be a war trial.