Bernard Henri-Levy interviews the hero of Azovstal: ‘We’re not heroes – we’re soldiers carrying out orders’

This is the most astounding interview I’ve conducted in a long time.

Ilya Samoilenko, 27, has a handsome, pallid face, one eye that seems to have been wounded and a surprisingly well-trimmed dark beard.

Second in command of the last contingent of fighters holding the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, he is 30 meters underground on a Zoom call illuminated by a cold, dim light.

In our filmed conversation he tells me he believes that he and his thousand comrades will die in the coming days, perhaps hours…

Источник: Mariupol steel plant’s second-in-command: ‘We’re not heroes – we’re soldiers carrying out orders’

An Independent Legal Analysis of the Russian Federation’s Breaches of the Genocide Convention in Ukraine and the Duty to Prevent

This report is the first to address one of the more contentious and consequential questions of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: whether the war is genocidal in character. With fighting still ongoing, modern tools have made it vital that this question be examined and its truth made known. With the word genocide so commonly used — […]

Источник: An Independent Legal Analysis of the Russian Federation’s Breaches of the Genocide Convention in Ukraine and the Duty to Prevent – New Lines Institute