Orthodox priest Andriy Galavin hopes justice will be served three years after hundreds of people were shot during Russia's occupation of Bucha, where his church served as a temporary burial ground. But his faith in justice is being tested by US President Donald Trump's courting of the Kremlin in the hopes of a quick end to the war, leaving some Ukrainians fearful their concerns and demands -- like seeing Russian officials stand trial -- will be sidelined.
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00:00I buried most of these people personally, after the exhumation, and to look into the eyes of people, relatives,
00:20when at the same time there is not one coffin in front of you, but there are 5-10, I think I buried 15 people now.
00:32You see, when it's not just a person from old age who died, but when there is trouble.
00:38Therefore, it is very personal for me.
00:42I will not, let's say, deceive and attribute something to what I, let's say...
00:49This is Volodymyr Brovchenko.
01:00It is very important that these people who were injured here...
01:06I mean, you can force them to peace by force, you can twist their hands and force them to surrender,
01:25but as long as there is no justice, this wound will never heal.
01:32It is very important that after the cannons are silenced,
01:38that sooner or later it will be discussed who is the real killer, who is the occupier, who is the killer, and so on.
01:48This is very important.
01:50There is, by the way, a video from a drone, how it rides a bike, leaves the corner.
01:55On two prostheses, he realized that he had no chance of survival.
02:02How is it possible?
02:08This system of peace and security, which is now collapsing, is a war between two systems, authoritarianism and democracy.
02:15And it's not for nothing that Russia...
02:17I haven't seen it.
02:21We document this for justice.
02:24So that sooner or later every person who committed these crimes with their own hands,
02:29as well as Putin, the higher political leadership, the military command of the Russian state,
02:35they appeared before the court.
02:37And international crimes, they do not have a term of longevity.
02:41And this is already one of the most documented wars in the history of mankind.
02:46And this means that even if now we do not have this political will of the international community,
02:53to affirm this justice, then tomorrow, when the situation changes, we will definitely take advantage of this opportunity.
03:01It is very important what Russia is doing.
03:04And we must stop it.
03:06Now we must start the reform of this international system of peace and security, so that it will be...
03:11It is very radical to rely on the Americans in the Western region, but actually...