Nadin Brzezinski
2 min readJan 20, 2023

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It’s not genocide, this is why there are preparations for a Nuremberg style trial.

You should read more.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2022/702574/EXPO_IDA(2022)702574_EN.pdf

Here, there is more

https://www.csce.gov/international-impact/press-and-media/press-releases/helsinki-commission-briefing-russias-genocide

And then there is this, by the way Finkel is what we call an expert in the field:

In the month since the International Criminal Court formally opened an investigation into possible Russian war crimes in Ukraine, evidence of severe abuses against civilians by the Russian military has continued to accumulate. This week, shocking images emerged from Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, with civilian corpses strewn openly across streets, and the discovery of at least one mass grave containing dozens, and potentially hundreds, of bodies. On Sunday Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy publicly accused the Russian government of committing genocide in Ukraine, a view endorsed by leading Holocaust scholar Eugene Finkel, himself born in Ukraine.

What exactly do we know, at this stage, about the nature of the violence committed by Russian forces against Ukrainian civilians? As a scholar of genocide and armed conflict, I am wary of expressing absolute confidence in any claim about violence while it is still ongoing. When we are inside the “fog of war” it is extremely difficult to piece together a reliable picture of events occurring along combat fronts or in occupied territories. Nevertheless, it is increasingly clear that the Russian military has committed serious atrocity crimes in Ukraine involving both a) the indiscriminate shelling of civilian areas, including via cluster munitions; and b) targeted killings and rapes of civilians by Russian forces. On the Ukrainian side, there is some evidence of much more limited law-of-war violations by Ukrainian troops such as the mistreatment of Russian prisoners of war, but Ukrainian authorities have denounced such violations, said any such actions must cease, and are currently investigating the allegations.

https://www.justsecurity.org/80998/is-genocide-occurring-in-ukraine-an-expert-explainer-on-indicators-and-assessments/

I expect none of this to make a dent in your views. I just don’t.

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Nadin Brzezinski
Nadin Brzezinski

Written by Nadin Brzezinski

Historian by training. Former day to day reporter. Sometimes a geek who enjoys a good miniatures game. You can find me at CounterSocial, Mastodon and rarely FB

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