Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned against concluding a deal with Russia to end the Ukraine war, which does not maintain the Akranian invasion of 2022 and the perpetrators of war crimes.
“Everyone was hoping that the war in Ukraine would end, and the unjustified suffering of the Ukrainian people could end,” Clinton told the Film World Forum in Berlin on Monday.
“But there is no peace without justice; there is no peace without accountability, and there is no peace without every effort to end the escape of those who requested this invasion and those who have perpetuated killings and war crime.”
She was speaking on the eve of US President Donald Trump’s meeting today with Russia Vladimir Putin, which aims to end the conflict. Trump suggested that Ukraine, which is not the aggressor, will have to make regional concessions and exchange energy assets for peace.
Russia is currently occupying about 20 % of Ukraine in a conflict that began after 2014 the democratic demonstrations that overthrew Russia -Yanukovic’s president. The Russian reaction to the Crimea included Crimea and then supported the separatists in the eastern Ukrainian region, followed by a complete invasion of the country in February 2022.
Clinton was talking in a question and answer about a question and answer in the United Kingdom and the director of cinematographer Laura Warner Documentary for Ukrainian war crimes Call of cranesIt was organized at the French embassy in Berlin as part of the global forum that works until March 19.
In the wake of Russia’s decline in April 2022 from northern Ukraine and the outskirts of Kiev, the documentary is followed by international human rights lawyer Anya Nestat and Ukrainian War Crime Researcher Solia Stosif while traveling villages and towns occupied by Russian forces, and documenting the smell of war.
Anya Neistat and Solomia in the invitation of the cranes
They hear accounts about gang rape. A torture room created in a local school; Families that were wiped through random missile attacks, and the killing of the Ukrainian poet and the writer of children Volodimir Facolinko.
The team and the film crew are out of the front lines, but the war is absolutely present as Russia continues its campaign for random missile attacks on civilian areas.
“We installed in the back of the first wave of the war. We will go from the village to the village to the village to the village, and in each of these villages, some of which we all know the names of Boch, for example, there will be this catastrophic number of losses, victims of torture or the survivors of the packaging,”
“It is almost impossible to understand the number of individuals who were truly affected by this war. What we wanted to do is to make people just understanding real human losses. We have brought to life, perhaps four examples. These are four of more than 140,000 people.”
Call of cranes It is a company produced by Hiddenlight Productions – The company created by Clinton with her daughter Chelsea Clinton and Wissam Branson in 2020 – in conjunction with a cinema for peace and social influence Mindro.
Clinton said that the investigation of Nestates immediately struck a tendon with the Hiddenlight team.
“We are trying to tell the stories that really go to the heart of what is really happening in the world today,” she said. She said: “When we learned what Anya was doing … that she and one team will be on the ground in Ukraine documenting war crimes, we were shocked that this was a story that had to be told, with everything in his pain, heroism and its stains, and this is what I think is the film to do, because this is really hard work.”
“We know how difficult war crimes and crimes against humanity, but we also know that if we do not try, we will never know what happened and the people who are represented in this movie, who represent many people, not only in Ukraine but all over the world, will not have any opportunity even in a kind of justice and end of dependency.”
Nestat has submitted an update on its investigations and issues that were presented to the German and Austrian federal prosecutors, as well as the United Nations Human Rights Committee.
“It is not easy because the perpetrators are not in the country. It is very difficult for any public prosecutor to follow a case, but we insist that there are ways to do this. We ask for sealed arrest orders so that these perpetrators and distance can be arrested.”
In the face of slow progress, Nestat said she was holding on the fact that the process allowed people to participate in the act of searching for justice.
“People understand the idea of justice everywhere, in Ukraine, in every other war area where it worked. It is surprising that they understand what it takes and the time it takes.
Nestat and Sendon emphasized the fact that the war crimes committed in Ukraine were part of a greater pattern of behavior by the Russian military units that also witnessed in Chechnya, Georgia and Syria, a point that also originated in the documentary.
“If you look at what the Vagner Army is doing first and the Russian army in Africa, there is a direct line for Putin and the Kremlin and a direct line for many of these leaders in this field,” Clinton said.
“You can look at the pictures of intelligence and see the same people in Chechnya, in Georgia, in 2014, in Ukraine, in Syria, and now again in Ukraine. Anyone who tries to claim that you can stop Russia by recognizing Russia in Ukraine, he ignores a history of the crime, before they ignore some prices, and we will fall near that, as he does not ignore the tumors. All these military incursions. ”
“Any person in Europe, or in any position on any responsibility anywhere, believes that impunity will be stopped by a cease -fire and privileges, this date does not understand and does not understand the psychology of people who call the bullets inside Russia.”
Call of cranes The world was shown for the first time at the Tripika Film Festival last June, but Clinton said that nine months in the documentary film had gained new importance amid political geographical developments in recent weeks.
“This film must be a mandatory offer for anyone in any position in the United States, Europe or anywhere else believes that it can be part of ending the war, but it ends the war in a way that recognizes sovereignty in Ukraine and the right of the Ukrainian people to be free and to obtain their security, recognition and integration in Europe with any security they need forward.”
Hiddenlight is currently multiplied by efforts to watch the movie. In addition to dedicated shows in events such as the Global Forum, the company has just entered into a deal with films and the direct event platform for consumers, Gathr aims to direct the film into a broader audience.
Warner said he was outside Channel 4, which supported and broadcast the film in the UK, it was difficult to obtain signs and broadcasters on board.
“They are completely afraid in this climate to capture these political materials,” she said, adding that she hopes to prove the performance of the film on Gathr that there is an audience for this type of documentary.
On Monday night, questions and answers followed Trump’s movements during the weekend to dismantle the federal federal news port, as well as attacks on the main news ports CNN and MSNBC. When asked about the role that Hiddenlight production could play in an era in which the main media is under pressure, Clinton suggested that the world was at a pivotal point in terms of information.
She said: “We are in a struggle about whether or not we would live in a world based on the truth.” “There are very strong forces at work in the world that want us to believe in an alternative truth of what we are already seeing in front of us, and what we know has already happened. They want to destroy the common basis of truth, facts and evidence. By destroying this, they destroy confidence. Destruction of confidence, destroy democracy
She said that in partnership with clothes like Cinema for People and Mindoooo, she was doing what you could tell facts based on facts, which show a slice of real life, but the main challenge is to make signs and broadcasters to participate and partnership in this type of story.
“They are concerned about politics,” she said.
“This is a much larger issue, even larger than the war in Ukraine, and it is huge and terrible. But what is really at stake is whether we will live in reality or not. And when you have Kremlin leaders to the White House to rewrite history for political and personal reasons, then we must stand against it.”
