Hillary Clinton Talks Russia-Ukraine Deal & “Struggle” For A Truth-Based World – Cinema For Peace World Forum

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Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned against striking a deal with Russia to end the Ukraine War that does not hold the instigators of the 2022 invasion and perpetrators of war crimes to account. “Everybody would hope that the war in Ukraine could come to an end, and the unjustified suffering of the Ukrainian people could be ended,” Clinton told an event at the pro-democracy Cinema for Peace World Forum in Berlin on Monday. “But there is no peace without justice; there’s no peace without accountability, and there is no peace without every effort undertaken to end the impunity of those who ordered this invasion and those who perpetuated the killings and the war crime.” Clinton was speaking in a Q&A for UK director and cinematographer Laura Warner’s Ukrainian war crime documentary The Cranes Call, organized at the French embassy in Berlin as part of the World Forum running until March 19.

The screening took place on the eve of U.S. President Donald Trump’s telephone meeting today with Russia’s Vladimir Putin aimed at brokering a deal to end the conflict.

Trump has suggested that Ukraine, which is not the aggressor, will have to make territorial concessions and share energy assets in return for peace.

Russia is currently occupying around 20% of Ukraine in a conflict which began after the country’s 2014 democracy demonstrations ousted pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych.