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‘I WATCHED BODIES BEING EXHUMED’ THE GRIM GATHERING OF EVIDENCE

Surrounded by reporters against a backdrop of bombed-out apartment buildings and rubble in Borodianka, a town in the Kyiv region, stands Iryna Venediktova, Ukraine’s prosecutor general.

Venediktova is carrying the weight of bringing almost 2,000 cases of war crimes committed by Russian forces to court at home and abroad. Her office is the only body in Ukraine with the power to investigate. It is through her office that information relating to war crimes is collected, before investigations are conducted and domestic and international cases built.

In a sortie reminiscent of Volody-myr Zelenskiy’s trip to newly liberated territories outside Kyiv, Venediktova walked around Borodianka

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