Military vehicles drive through Kyiv city center after the Ukrainian government said its troops have regained control of the entire Kyiv region.
(Photo: dpa)
This war is Vladimir Putin’s war. This war is his legacy. The human rights abuses that his troops appear to be committing in Ukraine are his human rights abuses.
If even a part of what the Ukrainian government is describing, documenting human rights organizations and showing the many horrifying pictures of Bucha is true, then the Russian president’s war has reached a new dimension of horror. Executions on civilians, killed women and children – these crimes, apparently committed by the Russian military, will also have political consequences.
No matter how great the longing for peace is, the thought that Putin could take a bonus for this inhuman war of aggression during peace negotiations – be it in the form of ceding territories or in the form of binding concessions that Ukraine must not approach the West – is becoming increasingly common unbearable.
Right at the beginning of his term in Chechnya after the turn of the millennium, the Russian president showed that he was acting without ruthlessness and scruples, when he razed Grozny to the ground.
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