When fighting for one's life, there are few rules that reign. But, genocide is disallowed as a reason for war.

The Azov Special Forces Regiment was on the very front to end the atrocities of the Russian War. Russia has no justifiable grounds for this destruction which really was intended to kill the people hiding inside. This steel rubble is proof of the attempts at further genocide by Russia. If Russia truly had one objective to stop production of steel at his plant, that status occurred long before this picture took place. This is pre-meditated genocide. There were also children inside the steel plant.

I remind. This is all pre-meditated with significant proof. Russia was never a rigorous partner at Minsk I or II. President Zelenskyy had been seeking peace and prosperity talks with Russia for two years prior to the attack. Russia was never successful in ending the civil war it initiated in eastern Ukraine. Russia initiated a civil war in eastern Ukraine for the sole reason of a pre-meditated timeline to celebrate his politics on May 9. There is absolutely no reason for the invasion into Ukraine that is causing pain and suffering by over 40 million Ukrainians.

In this photo (click here) provided by Azov Special Forces Regiment of the Ukrainian National Guard Press Office, a Ukrainian soldier stands inside the ruined Azovstal steel plant prior to surrender to the Russian forces in Mariupol, Ukraine, May 16, 2022. For nearly three months, Azovstal’s garrison clung on, refusing to be winkled out from the tunnels and bunkers under the ruins of the labyrinthine mill. A Ukrainian soldier-photographer documented the events and sent them to the world. Now he is a prisoner of the Russia.

May 21, 2022
By Elena Becatoros, Oleksan, Oleksandr Stachevesky and Ciaran McQuillan

Pokrovsk, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s claimed seizure of a Mariupol steel plant that became a symbol of Ukrainian tenacity gives Russian President Vladimir Putin a sorely needed victory in the war he began, capping a nearly three-month siege that left the city in ruins and more than 20,000 residents feared dead.

After the Russian Defense Ministry announced late Friday that its forces had removed the last Ukrainian fighters from the plant’s miles of underground tunnels, concern mounted for the Ukrainian defenders who now are prisoners in Russian hands.

Denis Pushilin, the head of an area of eastern Ukraine controlled by Moscow-backed separatists, said Saturday that the Ukrainians considered heroes by their fellow citizens were sure to face a tribunal for their wartime actions.

That is a carefully worded statement. Denis Pushilin is not stating genocide, but, uses "...wartime actions" to bring the Russian law to oversee it's burden. The Russian Courts are not the place for these jury trials. The prisoners should immediately be transported to The Hague for a free and open trial. Russia is not capable of fair hearings of prisoners as it is at war and will use the trials for propaganda for Putin's politics. If the trials are to go forward, the poisoners should be held in a disinterested third party country while hearings to determine guilt are held at The Hague.

“I believe that a tribunal is inevitable here. I believe that justice must be restored. There is a request for this from ordinary people, society, and, probably, the sane part of the world community,” Russian state news agency Tass quoted Pushilin as saying.

The Ukrainian government has not commented on Russia’s claim of capturing Azovstal, which for weeks remained Mariupol’s last holdout of Ukrainian resistance, and with it completing Moscow’s long-sought goal of controlling the city, home to a strategic seaport....