DOCUMENTARY.
Putin's crimes
“Ukraine: in the footsteps of the executioners”, at 8:55 p.m., on Arte.
Face distorted by grief and anger, a young teenager recounts how his mother, just after calling him on the phone, was shot dead in her car, near Kiev, in February 2022. His testimony, collected only three months later, constitutes the first scene of the gripping documentary broadcast this Tuesday evening on Arte, and the starting point of the investigations carried out by its two directors, Ksenia Bolchakova and Manon Loizeau, on the war crimes committed by Russian forces in Ukraine.
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The images of desolation are strong and the testimonies are poignant.
Like that of Alexandre, whose brother was shot at point blank range while he was simply smoking a cigarette at the bottom of his building in Boutcha.
Alone, he then went to search the bags of the corpses of Russian soldiers to try to identify them, via the documents collected, and thus find the assassins.
In Izioum, the cameras follow a Ukrainian man who returns to the places where he was tortured, describing the abuse suffered, indicating the place where the women were raped...
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