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Your questions needed for episode 4 of 'This Week in Ukraine' (Patreon)

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2023-04-18 15:18:13
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Dear Kyiv Independent community members,

We want your questions for the next episode of our podcast “This Week in Ukraine.” In light of emerging evidence of the Russian army executing Ukrainian soldiers and civilians, the topic of this week will be Russian war crimes in Ukraine and around the world.

To send in your questions, you can leave them in the comments below, message us on Patreon, or email community manager Brooke at brooke@kyivindependent.com. We look forward to hearing from you.

And a big thank you to everyone who has sent in questions and listened to the podcast so far! We have a small favor to ask you: If you have a few minutes, it would help a lot if you could rate “This Week in Ukraine” or leave a review on whichever listening platform you use. This will help us reach more people and grow our audience.

We also noticed there was interest in being able to download episodes for offline listening. Here are the links to the audio file of episode 3: “What the US intelligence leak reveals about the war in Ukraine” with your questions starting at 18:40. You can download the episode using these apps:

Apple Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3KMaq2L

Spotify: https://bit.ly/40b1OYZ

Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3okABpG

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out!

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What US intelligence leak reveals about war in Ukraine | This Week in Ukraine Ep. 3

“This Week in Ukraine” is a video podcast hosted by Kyiv Independent’s reporter Anastasiia Lapatina. Every week, Anastasiia sits down with her newsroom colleagues to discuss Ukraine’s most pressing issues. Episode #3 is dedicated to the massive leak of US military intelligence, and what it revealed about Russia's war against Ukraine. Anastasiia is joined by the Kyiv Independent's reporter Igor Kossov. Listen to the audio version of the podcast – http://bit.ly/3M2wtV9 Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:46 Origins of the leak 02:44 Investigations: suspected leaker, arrest 04:33 Is this leak unprecedented? 07:50 On the fabricated document 08:36 What the leak revealed about war in Ukraine 14:30 How damaging is this leak? 15:20 Ukraine's reaction to the leak 16:41 Can Russia be behind the leak? 18:53 Questions from patrons 21:35 Also this week 22:06 Outro The Kyiv Independent: Twiter – https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/kyivindependent Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/kyivindependent_official/ Anastasiia Lapatina: Twitter – https://twitter.com/lapatina_ Igor Kosov: Twitter – https://twitter.com/IgorKossov The episode was edited by Alex Kisly.

Comments

J. McNeill

I have supplies for civilians and I need to know where in Sumy Oblast would be the best place, people, especially seniors, that need help.

ZombieSkincare

For 'Questions', I'm curious what information you have about the number of Ukrainian children who have been kidnapped and taken to Russia. Are these children being adopted into Russian families, or are they being collected or sold and exploited by criminals?

Ian Gaunt

There seems to be areal lack of personnel available to document the Russian war crimes in a way which would stand up in a court and many witnesses re probably too shocked by their experience to wish to give testimony in a court. a small number of captured Russians have successfully been put on trial but is it realistic to expect that the prosecution effort will be more than symbolic?

Ian Gaunt

As far as he big war criminals (Putin etc) are concerned, it seems unlikely that they will be capable of being successfully arraigned and punished unless Russia is defeated in the way Germany was in 1945. Although one hopes that Russia will be thoroughly defeated militarily, this degree of military annihilation seems unlikely. Will it make sense to have a trial of those leaders responsible for aggressive war in absentia.

Karla NL fella

What are the key narratives that the Moscow regime spreads as propaganda worldwide, to distract from or cover war crimes? Can you suggest some talking points to counter the propaganda?

Mel Kimsey

Most people don't realize it's the non-commisdioned officers who are the backbone of the Ukrainian Army. Is there a way to offer thanks for their part.

Allen Graves

People say that those identified and charged will never face justice but I disagree look at how long it took to bring Germans to justice for crimes against humanity in WW2

NN

How was the UN commission able to say recently that they had not found evidence of genocide by Russia against the Ukrainian people “yet”? The official denial by Putin of the Ukrainian nation’s very existence, followed by invasion, massive attacks on civilians, destruction or theft of cultural heritage objects - and kidnapping Ukrainian children, for which there are already ICC arrest warrants, including for Putin himself - none of that is enough?! What are they waiting for? (Shudder to think!)

NN

As for war crimes around the world, can you please discuss Syria, as well as Wagner PMC’s crimes in Africa, including alleged gold theft and involvement in the armed conflict in Sudan? How many people in the places formerly colonized by western powers are starting to realize that Russia is not there to “liberate” them but ro rob them under new schemes?

Don McIlvin

In terms of Russian War crimes, accountability has happened at low levels served by Ukranian Authorities. 1. So one war crime happening in Ukraine is directed from Moscow's highest level (Putin) - that being a Cultural Genocide. They are trying to Russify the population in occupied territories. This is a systemic objective coordinated across the occupied Administrations. In the occupied area there has been the imprisonment and torture of former soldiers, and executions. Those resisting the Russification such as not getting Russian Passports or even singing Ukrainian songs are targeted for abuse. It is an ethnic cleansing based on the intensity of ones Ukrainian "identity" rather than religion or race. Has the UN ever dealt with cleansing based on how a population perceives its identity? 2. There is another type of war crime; where random killings, rape, physical beatings, etc. appear to be caused by rogue Russian units or individual soldiers. Thievery of civilian home goods is systemic and rampant. While perhaps not directed from the top, there never is the slightest consequence, or even public admonition by Russian Authorities. Instead they passed a law against criticizing the Military. But is "tolerance" by higher level officers of the individual brutality itself a war crime, as of course are the leadership directed and intentional war crimes such as the Russification or Missile attacks on power stations etc.? Is there a historical precedent for holding accountable those in positions of authority or command that "looked the other way" from the basic brutality of random individual soldiers against civilians or POWs?

Don McIlvin

It seems from the leaked documents, US Intelligence agencies have deeply penetrated the day to day operation of at least parts of the Russian Military and the Wagner group. These agencies will have a hyper-sensitivity around protecting their "sources and methods". It will take a high level focused effort by Ukrainian leadership to get US Intelligence agencies to compile evidence of war crimes made know through their collected data, even if the war crimes compilation is kept within the US Agencies for now. Has anyone asked Ukrainian Leadership whether they have asked their US counterparts to at least compile any war crimes revealed through their intelligence collection program? Sometimes a well placed question can prompt action.