Uncovering a Pattern of ‘Strategic Violence’ by Russia in Ukraine

The FRONTLINE Dispatch

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🗓️ 10 November 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, FRONTLINE and the Associated Press have been investigating mounting evidence of war crimes. The two organizations’ recent documentary, Putin’s Attack on Ukraine: Documenting War Crimes, found that in many instances the violence was far from random.

AP Global Investigative Reporter Erika Kinetz, the documentary’s correspondent, joins The FRONTLINE Dispatch to talk about this months-long collaborative investigation. From reporting on the ground in Ukraine, to piecing together hours of CCTV footage and audio intercepts of Russian soldiers’ conversations, Kinetz spoke with FRONTLINE’s editor-in-chief and executive producer Raney Aronson-Rath about working with FRONTLINE producers to trace the story of one woman’s loss to a larger pattern of strategic violence in Bucha and other Kyiv suburbs.

“Victim after victim, survivor after survivor would ask the same question, which is: ‘Why? Why did this happen?’” Kinetz said. “It didn't actually dawn on me until near the end of our reporting that there were actually patterns at play in the violence that we were seeing, and there were actually strategies motivating a lot of the violence.”

Putin’s Attack on Ukraine: Documenting War Crimes is now streaming on FRONTLINE’s website, the PBS Video App, and FRONTLINE’s YouTube channel.

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0:00.0	Okay, this is the Oblenska street we're on now.
0:05.6	Since the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, frontline in the Associated Press have
0:11.0	been investigating the mounting evidence of war crimes.
0:15.0	So your sister lived here.
0:19.4	Our new film, Putin's attack on Ukraine, documenting war crimes, is a result of 8 months of reporting.
0:27.4	What we do have is satellite imagery to confirm at least the presence of Russian military.
0:34.7	It examines the scope of the atrocities and the prospects for accountability.
0:39.3	Ukraine calls on the establishment of a special tribunal which would have a specific jurisdiction
0:45.1	over the crime of aggression against Ukraine.
0:48.3	Can you indict Putin?
0:50.0	Erika Keynats is a global investigative reporter at the Associated Press and the correspondent
0:55.9	on the phone.
0:56.9	I don't think we, and I don't think anybody in Ukraine really had any notion at that point
1:01.1	of what was to come.
1:02.6	She joins me today to talk about this important collaborative investigation.
1:07.1	I'm Rainier and Sun Roth, Editor-in-Chief and Executive Producer of Frontline, and this
1:11.7	is the Frontline Dispatch.
1:19.4	The Frontline Dispatch is made possible by the Abrams Foundation, committed to excellence
1:24.0	in journalism, and by the Frontline Journalism Fund, with major support from John and
1:29.0	Joanne Hagueller.
1:30.8	Support for Frontline Dispatch comes from the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center,
1:35.0	dedicated to providing the latest therapies and cancer specialists who are experienced
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