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Victims in ukraine and even some are executions of civilians, which reportedly happened before what we are now seeing in bucha. the question is, what can the west do about it? im joined now by rachel den berg. she is deputy director of human rights watch. thanks for being with us. human rights watch doing such important work here. but explain for our viewers the importance of documenting these atrocities. >> thank you, jake. its really good to be with you. yes, we documented seven summary execut...

Director of human rights watch. his group has been documenting extensively how russian forces have been fighting this war and the alleged atrocities. ken roth, thank you for joining us on the show tonight. you and your organization, human rights watch, have documented human rights abuses and accusations of war crimes around the world, everywhere from syria to yemen to myanmar to the central african republic. put ukraine and what youve documented in ukraine into context. how bad is it? >> what we...

Executions of prisoners and other kinds of abuse of the population that was at least briefly under russian occupation in ukraine. and so thats what the world is focusing on now. but this is in addition to the ongoing indiscriminate bombardment of certain cities that the russians are trying to take. >> and in your report today, ken, human rights watch documents the case of a 31-year-old ukrainian woman in kharkiv who says she was repeatedly raped by a russian soldier. to be clear, rape is a war c...

Received concrete evidence of very direct war crimes. that is to say summary executions of prisoners and other kinds of abuse of the population that was at least briefly under russian occupation in ukraine. and so thats what the world is focusing on now. but this is in addition to the ongoing indiscriminate bombardment of certain cities that the russians are trying to take. >> and in your report today, ken, human rights watch documents the case of a 31-year-old ukrainian woman in kharkiv who say...

Stories that people are telling them about rapes, summary executions, and in bucha were seeing the video. petro poroshenko back with us now. sir, what is your reaction to this news coming out of bucha? >> first of all, we know whats going on here because just a few hundred meters from the position of our battalion to the bucha. this is a road to bucha but two kilometers. that was the disaster. this is the way how the russian forces war in ukraine. this is how -- i to date speak with our fighters...

Investigated. >> you heard president biden talk about the importance of preserving evidence for potential war crimes, but i guess the question is how difficult is it to do that in the midst of this war zone? >> exactly. i mean, with the horrific images were seeing from bucha we dont know the exact circumstances of how some of these people were killed. some of them may have been victims of summary executions, especially the cases where we clearly see their hands are tied. some of them may have be...

Documented another case of summary executions where russian soldiers, according to our findings, rounded up six men and later executed them. we spoke to the mother of one men who was nearby when his son was apprehended. she saw the bodies of her son and five other men lying on the outskirts of the village. she was told -- she ran after her son and was told by russian soldiers to wait. then she heard gunshots and later found their bodies. they couldnt bury the bodies for nine days. we also docume...

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