Twisted disaster shows sanctions yet without stopping Russia

Since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Western nations have established the sanctions on the attacker to help the hard effort of war.

But in Ukraine on Earth, these sanctions seem to have limited effect.

Outside of Kharkiv, in a secret location, there is a collection of some metal traces from city and surrounding attacks. Savagery is a scrap. The last three and a half years hit Kharkiv and turned around Kharkiv.

“This is the fiscal, material evidence that proves fiscal guilt, in making war crimes,” Dimtro Chubenko tells the Prosecutor’s Office of Kharkiv. Here all the rocket and drone parts are carefully gathered and analyzed.

Dmytro shows me one of the last editions – the Russian version of Iran shaheed. Russia recently shot hundreds of these Kamikaze drones in Ukrainian villages and cities. They are quite cheap to do it, tells me – about $ 20,000 (£ 15,000) each.

Points to the nearby carcass near a Russian cross-missile. It says these million costs.

But these weapons are not completely Russians – “Western nations have many components,” Dmytro says. “It is possible to avoid penalties for (Russia), but nothing is done is not an opportunity,” he added.

Donald Trump seems to have lost patience with Vladimir Putin. After the early approach between the US and Russia, the US president has now threatened to encourage the sanctions of Kremlin, if Russia does not support a ceasefire of Ukraine this Friday.

Trump said Secondary penalties will also come into effect That day, to influence any country made with Russia. It has set additional 25% of India to buy Russian oil. US Envoy Steve Witkoff met Putin Moscow on Wednesday before the lectures period.

So if the President Trump choose to impose more sanctions in Kremlin, would it be enough to force Russia to change the course in this war? Dymtro believes that Russian oil and gas exports can have an important economic impact.

“We will not be able to join your fingers, but we have to do it, we need to play,” he said. It is expected to act in Trump President.

Kharkiv, 30 miles from the Russian border, has given many strikes along the war along the war. Thousands of buildings are ruined or destroyed. The region almost 3,000 civilians have died, 97 of them children.

The Colonel of Serhi Bolvinov shows me the roasted shell of the police residence. A Russian strike in 2022 killed three and six civilians of its officers. The missile fell into the wall hole. Russian tactics, he says, has not changed. “Russia tries to hit and kill as civilians as they can.”

The work of Colonel Bolvinov is to investigate the only civil death. No stone left. It has 1,000 men and women who work for him, spreading throughout the basement offices. They are making sharp anti-managers to build a crime against those who are in charge.

The photos of the Russian military who have been associated with specific attacks are plastered through the wall.

In another building, Crime-scene researchers make DNA tests to identify the last dead – the queue to collect water from the Ukrainian civilians. Colonel Bolvinov shows me photographic strike – unknown bodies are on the ground.

“It’s hard to do this job, but it’s a very important job for us for future justice, for Ukrainian peoples,” he noted. The three-dimensional image of terrestrial shows me more than 400 bodies in Izium. “Some cases all of us leave all of us, and we will never forget this trauma,” he said.

Colonel Bolvinov said he wants to end this war. President Trump expects pressure on President Putin. But the police chief does not want peace at the price. “Peace without justice, it’s not really peace,” he said. Although the ceasefire can be agreed, it has not yet addressed the wounds of most Ukrainians.

Kharkiv is another souvenir of the cost of war in an external cemetery: it is growing among the dead soldiers dead. Each tomb is marked by the blue and gold of the national flag. Here the silence is broken only with the sound of the wind.

Around the cemetery in the civil section of the cemetery, mothers and his family flowers are putting the daughter in the grave. Sofia had only 14 years when a Russian bomb took his life last year. It was sitting at a bank in Kharkiv park, enjoying a friend with a warm summer afternoon.

I ask Yulia’s mother to the greatest pressure on Russia can lead to comfort but not optimistic.

“These conversations have already been too long,” he told me.

“But so far no results are … hope disappears.”