'Part of the lesson of our work is that we will not let history be rewritten.' In Ukraine, janinedigi works to collect evidence of Russian war crimes that might stand up in court against Putin and his armies.
A devastated neighborhood in Irpin, on the road from Kyiv to Bucha.The phone call came on February 25, the day after Russian troops advanced into Ukraine. On the line was the British writer and academicA senior fellow at the Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins, Pomerantsev is regarded as an authority on Russian propaganda. He was born in Kyiv, to Soviet dissident parents, and since 2014 has been closely engaged with some of the country’s leading authors, journalists, intellectuals, and politicians.
For those like Susan Meiselas, the Magnum photojournalist who covered wars in Latin America and went on to win a MacArthur, in part for her work in Kurdistan, what is important is that we work on war crimes while the conflict is still raging. “This is a first,” she says, of Ukraine, where we are voluminously “recording war crimes while the war is still happening.”was born the day Pomerantsev phoned me.
“This is my purpose,” she has remarked. “To make Putin and his forces pay for what they have done.” Venediktova told me that, even as foreign investigators are working in Ukraine and international courts await the evidence of their probes, the largest number of prosecutions will be conducted in Ukraine itself.
I remember cruelty inflicted on civilians, who hid in potato shelters, wondering if that night was their last. I remember how frightened I was and how I used the last battery of my satellite phone to report the fall of Grozny to my newspaper back in London before the device died and I was alone. I then sat up with some very young Chechen soldiers, trying to teach them rudimentary English. Through our terror and our gloom, we tried to recount bad jokes, to laugh a bit, to eat some hard bread.
My second Putin war was Syria. By the time Putin joined that conflict, in 2015, President Bashar al-Assad had already burned much of his country. But Putin added the finishing touches. He torched East Aleppo. He bombed medical facilities, killing doctors, nurses, and the wounded. He bombed schools and decimated residential areas.
By going beyond military targets and training his sights on noncombatants, Putin’s calculation has been to slaughter the most vulnerable. These serial attacks on civilians, in city after city, suggests a blueprint, suggests Putin and Dvornikov could someday face justice as war criminals.Photograph by Larry Towell/Magnum photos.When I was reporting in Rwanda or Bosnia or the Yazidi/ISIS crisis in Iraq, I was not looking at the bigger picture of genocide. In Ukraine, I am.
She described how they had moved to another room on hands and knees, away from the windows, until another explosion burst the windows. She recalled how the soldiers came in and ordered them outside, saying, “We’re not going to hurt you. Don’t you see we’re Russians? We’re here to liberate you.” They emptied the men’s pockets and took their phones.
She said a young soldier approached her, gun cocked, and she knew from the look in his eyes he was thinking about it. She squeezed her eyes shut, awaiting the bullet, but instead the soldier told Iryna’s father, “Is this your daughter, old man? Take her away.”
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