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Ukrainian president zelenskyy says there is clear evidence of russia committing war crimes but prosecuting vladimir putin and his military would be complex and time consuming challenge. earlier tonight i spoke with rebecca hamilton, shes an expert of prosecuting war crimes and spent time at the national court. here is our conversation. >> these are some of the examples that we have seen, mutilation and cruel treatment and taking up hostages. you see a list of what would fall under war crimes and...

Zaporizhzhia. i wanted to share that anecdote, because it has been really hard to share, that ali. really quickly though, on kyiv, extraordinary. we will only hear more and more reports like that, but that is the first hand eyewitness report have actually witnessing those forced deportations. here in kyiv, though, and surprise we missed boris johnson walking around yesterday. two quick messages it sends. one is that kyiv and say, look, here is a british prime minister walking around without any ...

Devastations he seen. >> this is what he posted from bu bucha. >> hi, i am a musician in ukraine, i am in bucha. and behind me, you can see destroyed buildings. they were destroyed binomial russian tanks and missiles and airstrikes and soldiers. here is whats left of the military of russias soldiers. this will happen to anybody gearing up to come and invade our country. >> in addition to the damage of bucha, hundreds of bodies were found after russian troops left. >> reporter: you can see it.

>> they were not victims of russian military personnel. >> putin spokesmans denial of killing civilians isnt convincing to many. >> he was not really sure what hes -- he said deny, deny. we dont have facts, this is fake. but he, as a spokesman, didnt have enough investigations or research in his hands. i feel like he was a little bit weak. >> ukrainians here in the south have not just seen the horrors left behind when the russian tide retreated in the north, those trying to push back here said t...

In response to those atrocities seen on the ground in bucha that were committed by russia. those things include full blocking sanctions on one of russias largest financial institutions and one of russias largest banks. additionally, u.s. imposed sanctions on russian president vladimir putins adult daughters with you thinking being, from u.s. officials, that putin may be hiding from of his wealth and assets with his daughters. this all comes as the u.s. and its allies look at a coordinated respon...

Escape some of these questions that ought to have been raised earlier particularly when it comes not logistical challenges of delivering the weapons systems that ukraine needs. look, the ukrainians have proven that theyre willing to fight for themselves. delivering those systems and giving them to them now and enabling them to fight for themselves is critical at this juncture as russia seeks to regroup and and move to the south. howard: liz, to me, the most striking image maybe of the whole worl...

Headlines, what weve seen recently coming out of ukraine. youre talking about the executions in bucha, the train station attack that we talked about earlier in our broadcast, hospital attack. rebecca, how would you start to lay out a case here? how would that come together? >> so we have an abundance of information that were seeing literally on the screen right now of what prosecutors would call crime-based evidence. all of the bombings, all of the dead bodies, showing that atrocities have happe...

Russian military personnel. >> putin spokesmans denial of killing civilians isnt convincing to many. >> he was not really sure what hes -- he said deny, deny. we dont have facts, this is fake. but he, as a spokesman, didnt have enough investigations or research in his hands. i feel like he was a little bit weak. >> ukrainians here in the south have not just seen the horrors left behind when the russian tide retreated in the north, those start to push back here said they are witnessing the same t...

Now, we have this attack against the rail station in kramatorsk. we have -- and in france but also european union. so we help ukraine, and weve continued to help ukraine on all those levels. >> after those atrocities that we saw in bucha, french president emmanuel macron said that he wanted the eu to ban russian oil. i mentioned 38 billion dollars worth of russian oil have been bought by the way you since this war began. the eu succeeded in banning coal purchases, but its still not able to do so...

Causing russia to default on its debt would be sort of the -- you know, going up to the top rung. but as long as russia is getting billions of dollars a day from the european union, from european countries for oil and gas, the sanctions dont have that pivotal effect that they might have. cutting off russia from its supply, from sending oil and gas to europe, that would have a really important effect. and zelenskyy calls that blood money that the europeans are spending for russian oil and gas. >>...