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About the possibility to access bucha, we immediately reached out to international institutions, including international criminal court. we invited them to send prosecutors, to send independent observers who could gather, collect this evidence. we also allowed foreign journalists to come in and see with their own eyes, and to report everything to international audiences. and we are also ready to set up a joint investigation team that will bring together all countries willing to investigate these...

First moment we learned about the possibility to access bucha, we immediately reached out to international institutions, including international criminal court. we invited them to send prosecutors, to send independent observers who could gather, collect this evidence. we also allowed foreign journalists to come in and see with their own eyes, and to report everything to international audiences. and we are also ready to set up a joint investigation team that will bring together all countries will...

These were peaceful towns, upper—middle—class... bucha is — you have to understand, bucha is an upper—middle—class suburb of kyiv. these people lived normal, quiet lives there. many left the city, the town in the first days, seeing the approaching russian army. those who stayed, they posed no resistance, no threat to the russian army. everything that was done in bucha was done on purpose and without any justified reason. does it seem to you that what you have found in bucha and in a co...

Widely to civilians, and you told all ukrainian males between the ages of 18—60 to stay and fight and join the resistance against russia. do you think that context has anything to do with the way russian forces, you say, behaved in towns like bucha? i hope youre not... you are asking this question without trying to draw a parallel between the behaviour of the country that is defending itself, and the country that attacked ukraine without any legitimate reason. we gave weapons to every man who ...

That is defending itself, and the country that attacked ukraine without any legitimate reason. we gave weapons to every man who was ready to stand up for his country and for his relatives with only one purpose — to prevent these crimes from being committed. we do not have a single report of any ukrainian civilian attacking, torturing russian soldiers in bucha or in other towns and villages. these were peaceful towns, upper—middle—class... bucha is — you have to understand, bucha is an up...

Minister, im going to ask you one question. i hope you dont take it the wrong way, but it seems to me its important to set a context for what you have described as happening in bucha and other communities close to kyiv. i am mindful that the ukrainian parliament passed legislation earlier in this war authorising all ukrainians, giving them the right to kill members of the russian military. also, the context in which you distributed arms very widely to civilians, and you told all ukrainian males ...