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I would like to ask some of you how important it is to you to have some sort of justice for those whove lost loved ones in this war, lost homes, lostjobs, livelihoods, lost whole parts of their homeland, your homeland. there are investigations into russian war crimes in train, as we know in places like bucha. is it realistic to think that one day president putin one day, president putin and perhaps his military commanders will be standing in front of some kind of war crimes tribunal? let me talk...

Its always a challenge. but it is especially harder obviously during times of elections. and there are not only u.s. presidential elections in 2024, there are also ukrainian -- well, maybe ukrainian presidential elections, depending on the state of war, and the presidential elections in russia. so its going to be a big year. >> is there anything about either russias poor performance on the battlefield and the brazenness with which putin has rewarded the units that carried out war crimes in bucha...

And we have all been following the thousands of alleged war crimes committed by russia in ukraine. what do you hope comes from it? >> i just want the american people to see what i have seen. i dont think they have. i just got back from bucha and i the civilians killed in cold blood with hands tied behind their back, and executed and children burned alive, and people buried really in shall doe shallow graves with their hands sticking up out of the grounds, and people exported from villages and th...

Women told stories of being raped by russian soldiers. one of the first on the ground till the -- new cranium parliament appeared in my show that weekend. while he was still in bucha. earlier this week, nearly a year after russians first occupied bucha, i met up with him in that town. we took a short walk. he told me about the horrific scenes he saw along just one block in bucha. and how the town still bears the scars of war, and surprising the recovery has taken place since it was liberated. >>...

As the russian troops pulled back last spring from the area around kyiv, the evidence grew of civilian killings, a war crime. ukrainian troops entering the city of bucha found the bodies of dozens of civilians strewn along one of the main streets. a year later, theres still an enormous amount of reconstruction to be done here in bucha, and yet life is starting to return to normal. even on a street like this where the russians killed so many civilians. lets go to the pictures of what happened aft...

Bombed, he says the ukrainian military retreated. the russian occupation began. >> reuse of this entrance. >> they eventually escaped to europe through a green corridor. two weeks later, ukrainians won the battle for kyiv. dmytro was one of the first ukrainian officials to enter liberated bucha, bearing witness to the horrors that had unfolded there. >> many families many people were broken their because of a mission from one man. >> a year from the start of the russian invasion, his family is r...

Before. >> as does this, although this was not ruin in the war. when you look at this, you think it has been through 1000 years. they are just going to keep on rebuilding and keep on doing what they do. what have you learned on this trip that is so different from when you were here at the beginning of the war? >> i was in bucha shortly after the russians retreated, walking through the streets, seeing the construction, hearing these incredible stories. vasil just returned in june. he had been in ...

Yeah. this is bucha. yes. this is pretty... yes. i was there just after, when we de—occupied it. yes, weve been there. yes. and that was tragedy, and it wasnt a movie. you see that was real life. and i think we became... when we saw what theyve done in bucha, i think all of us, people who were there and people who watched this, and i think everybody, became older, really older, and... so how to command it? i think you see that is the face. i really... its my opinion that bucha is not the face ...

STORY: In Bucha - a Ukrainian town now synonymous with allegations of Russian brutality - two neighbors met at a local cemetery to grieve. | February 24, 2023

[speaking non-english] >> we saw in reality the devil is not out there, he is here on earth. you were there that morning. april 2nd, you and i talked on tv. you are out there on your phone and you were showing me what was going on. and you say, that was one of the worst days you can ever remember. probably -- >> probably the worst. yeah. especially what i saw near bucha on the outer road. i saw the number of cars shot down by russians and just, in one of the cars, there was a body of a boy. i do...