随着俄罗斯军方战争罪行新证据的出现在持续入侵乌克兰的过程中乌克兰驻美国大使奥克萨娜·马尔卡罗娃(Oksana Markarova)周日表示，“让所有人看到俄罗斯正在发动的这场侵略和恐怖袭击的真实面目是如此重要。
“这是折磨，强奸，杀戮。大规模的战争罪行，”马卡罗娃在接受美国广播公司“本周”节目主持人乔纳森·卡尔的采访时说。“这就是为什么我们需要尽快解放乌克兰全境，因为很明显，俄罗斯人正在把所有乌克兰人作为目标。整个家庭。孩子。所以，这一切都没有战争逻辑。这简直是对乌克兰人进行恐吓和种族灭绝。”
乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽伦斯基(Volodymyr Zelenskyy)周四在一次讲话中表示，在最近收复的伊兹尤姆地区发现了一个乱葬坑。据乌克兰官员称，超过400具尸体可能被埋在该地点。(俄罗斯一再否认以平民为目标，尽管有相反的证据。)
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"你对那些受害者的集体坟墓有所了解吗?"卡尔周日问马尔卡罗娃。
“我们已经有调查小组在那里，”她回答说，并补充说，该国一直在准备针对俄罗斯的国内和国际刑事案件——美国正在协助这项工作，Markarova说。
“当然，大多数(受害者)是乌克兰人，”马尔卡罗娃告诉卡尔，称万人坑的发现“令人震惊”
“他们中的一些是家庭，就像家庭中的每个人都被无缘无故地杀害，”她说，并指出“他们中的大多数...[显示出]明显的酷刑痕迹。”
本月，乌克兰发起了迅速成功的反攻夺回被俄罗斯占领的领土。泽伦斯基在周三晚上的讲话中表示，乌克兰军队在五天的战斗中前进了110公里，夺回了东部的大片地区。
卡尔指出，这次行动是“用相对较少的武装力量”进行的
"你有足够的人力来守住这块领土并继续击退俄国人吗?"他问。
马尔卡罗娃承认她的国家的军事弱点，但她说，他们的抵抗不仅仅局限于军队。
“总的来说，我们的部队比俄军慢得多。但是，他们无法守住阵地，而我们能够夺回阵地，我们也将夺回阵地的原因是，他们不仅是在与我们勇敢的总统和我们的武装部队作战，他们是在与所有乌克兰人作战，”她说。“因此，所有4000万乌克兰人都在为我们的亲人和家园而战。”
“他们都在等待解放，”她说。
美国本周向乌克兰提供了6.75亿美元的弹药、导弹和培训援助。自1月份以来，美国已经提供了约135亿美元的援助。
与此同时，俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京表示，他的军队正在一场他称之为维护国家安全的战争中进行重组。白宫已经公开警告他不要进行某种报复。
在一次采访中在哥伦比亚广播公司的“60分钟”节目中美国总统乔·拜登(Joe Biden)表示，如果普京对乌克兰使用化学武器，“你将改变战争的面貌，这与二战以来的任何事情都不一样。”
卡尔引用拜登的“严厉警告”，询问马卡罗娃对乌克兰军事行动的看法，他说:“你担心俄罗斯会做出什么回应?”
马尔卡罗娃说:“普京掌权的这些年来，他们试图吓唬世界，试图让我们所有人都思考他下一步会做什么。”“我们必须继续推进，解放乌克兰。我们必须一起明确地对普京和所有支持这一点的俄罗斯人说，在21世纪，攻击一个和平的邻国是不允许的。”
“我们不要担心普京认为他应该做什么，”她补充道。“让我们都坚持到底，为乌克兰提供更多支持，因为当这场战争还在乌克兰的时候，民主世界赢得这场战争会更便宜，也更好。”
Russia has been committing 'war crimes of massive proportions,' Ukraine ambassador says
As new evidence emerges of war crimes by the Russian militaryin its ongoing invasion of Ukraine, "It's so important for everyone to see the true face of this aggression and terrorist attack Russia is waging," Ukraine's ambassador to the U.S., Oksana Markarova, said Sunday.
"It's tortures, rapes, killings. War crimes of a massive proportions," Markarova claimed in an interview with ABC "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl. "That's why we need to liberate the whole territory of Ukraine as soon as possible because clearly Russians are targeting all Ukrainians. Whole families. Children. So, there is no war logic in all of this. It's simply terrorizing and committing genocide against Ukrainians."
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an address on Thursday that a mass grave was found in the recently recaptured territory of Izyum. Over 400 bodies could be buried in the site, according to Ukrainian officials. (Russia has repeatedly denied targeting civilians,despite evidence otherwise.)
"Do you have a handle in terms of those mass graves of who the victims are?" Karl asked Markarova on Sunday.
"We already have teams of investigators there," she replied, adding that the country has been preparing national and international criminal cases against Russia -- an effort the U.S. is assisting with, Markarova said.
"The majority of [the victims], of course, Ukrainians," Markarova told Karl, calling the mass grave's discovery "horrifying."
"Some of them are families, like everyone in the family is killed for no reason," she said, noting that "the majority of them ... [showed] clear signs of torture."
This month, Ukrainelaunched a rapidly successful counteroffensiveto recapture territories occupied by Russia. During an address Wednesday evening, Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces advanced 110 kilometers in five days of combat, taking back large swaths of the east.
Karl noted the operation was undertaken "with a relatively small number of armed forces."
"Do you have the manpower to hold this territory and to continue to push the Russians back?" he asked.
Markarova acknowledged her country's military weaknesses but said their resistance extended beyond troops alone.
"In general, our force is much slower than Russian force. But the reason why they can't hold the ground and we can retake it, and we will retake it, is because they are not only fighting with our brave president and our armed forces, they are fighting with all Ukrainians," she said. "So all 40 million of Ukrainians are fighting for our loved ones and homes."
"All of them were waiting for liberation," she said.
The U.S. this week provided another $675 million in aid to Ukraine for ammunition, missiles and training. Since January, the U.S. has given some $13.5 billion in aid.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, meanwhile, says his army is regrouping in a war he has described as preserving his country's security. The White House has publicly warned him against certain kinds of retaliation.
In an interviewon CBS' "60 Minutes,"President Joe Biden said that if Putin were to use chemical weapons against Ukraine, "You will change the face of war unlike anything since World War II."
Citing that "stern warning" from Biden, Karl asked Markarova about the Ukrainian military push, saying, "What do you worry that Russia will do in response?"
"For all years that Putin is in power, they tried to scare the world and they tried to get all of us thinking what he will do next," Markarova said. "We just have to continue on pushing, liberating Ukraine. We just have to clearly and all together say to Putin, and to all Russians who support this, that it's not OK in the 21st century to attack a peaceful neighboring country."
"Let's not worry about what Putin thinks he should do," she added. "Let's all stay the course, provide more support to Ukraine because it's going to be much cheaper and better for the democratic world to win this war while it's still in Ukraine."
