Iryna Kostenko News Today

Veteran BBC correspondent Jeremy Bowen, who has reported live from Ukraine, reveals the toll his job takes on his family.

On her own, iryna buried alexei in the garden after shed brought his body back from the road in a wheelbarrow. translation: i covered the grave with a blanket| to protect it from the dogs. he isnt in a coffin. i had to roll him in a carpet. did you say to the russians, "why did you kill my son?" translation: they were in jeeps with guns. - they killed him and fled. how can i talk to such morons? i want them dead. i want their children to lie like my son. close to where alexei was killed opposite...

Closer to its border. a few minutes further down the road in the village of kalynivka were a few civilians, a rare sight, so we stopped. iryna kostenko wanted to talk about march 10th, the day the russians killed her only son, alexei. the two lived here, just 500 metres from hisjob changing tyres at a garage. irina led the way to her sons bedroom, damaged by shelling weeks after he was killed. we were the first outsiders shed seen since the russians left on friday, and the story of alexeis death...

On her own, iryna buried alexei in the garden after shed brought his body back from the road in a wheelbarrow. translation: i covered the grave with a blanket| to protect it from the dogs. he isnt in a coffin. i had to roll him in a carpet. did you say to the russians, "why did you kill my son?" translation: they were in jeeps with guns. - they killed him and fled. how can i talk to such morons? i want them dead. i want their children to lie like my son. close to where alexei was killed opposite...

Bedroom, damaged by shelling weeks after he was killed. we were the first outsiders shed seen since the russians left on friday, and the story of alexeis death spilt out. translation: the pain is so bad. now im all alone. my son was young, 27 years old. he wanted to stay alive. alexei was born when iryna was 18. her life has not been easy, but she dreads the future without him. she said hed served in the army, but that day he was going to work at the garage. after they killed her son, she fled a...

Soldiers took over the house, and judging by the rubbish they left behind them, they were having a good time. loads of bottles of vodka, jack daniels, bells whisky, beer, you name it. it is hard to understand human behaviour like this, but what makes it really tragic is that there are so many accounts of it happening where russian soldiers have been and are now in ukraine. she sobs. on her own, iryna buried alexei in the garden after shed brought his body back from the road in a wheelbarrow. tra...

After they killed her son, she fled and the russian soldiers took over the house, and judging by the rubbish they left behind them, they were having a good time. loads of bottles of vodka, jack daniels, bells whisky, beer, you name it. it is hard to understand human behaviour like this, but what makes it really tragic is that there are so many accounts of it happening where russian soldiers have been and are now in ukraine. she sobs. on her own, iryna buried alexei in the garden after shed broug...

To destroy a family. iryna found another picture of her son. this is my love, she said, my sweetheart. and earlierjeremy gave us this update on what hes been witnessing in kyiv. theres a pattern of behaviour, lots of stories like that of potential war crimes, now the thing is, how do you prove there is a war crime? there has to be a process of redress. the best recent example was after the wars of former yugoslavia — now that took years to accumulate the evidence that got the main perpetrators...

Vulnerable to drone, artillery and fast—moving infantry with anti—tank weapons. you can see the results scattered across the roads and villages around the capital. this was a russian supply column on the main highway that runs west from kyiv. the lorries were carrying ammunition. artillery shells are scattered across the road. russia will find logistics less challenging in the east, closer to its border. a few minutes further down the road in the village of kalynivka were a few civilians, a ...

To destroy a family. iryna found another picture of her son. this is my love, she said, my sweetheart. michael newton is a war crimes expert and former senior advisor to us ambassador at large for war crimes — hejoins me now from nashville. what exactly do you think constitutes a war crime? in well, i mean, you just gave the perfect example. it is designed to protect innocent civilians and innocent civilian property from the effects of conflict are the greatest extent possible and that is the ...