Professor Timothy Snyder on Russia's Clear Genocidal Intent in Ukraine

November 14, 2022: Nine months after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Professor Timothy Snyder laid out Russia's clear intent to commit genocide in Ukraine. Professor Snyder argued that both Russia's crimes in Ukraine and the intent of Russia's leadership to commit genocide against Ukrainians are not in dispute. Full hearing: https://youtube.com/live/pPQCpl9O034 Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. A scholar of history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust, Snyder speaks five and reads ten European languages, has written 16 books, including six on Ukraine, and co-edited two. His work, published in forty languages, has inspired political demonstrations, sculpture, posters, punk rock, rap, film, theater, opera, and earned him six state orders and decorations from Austria, Estonia, Lithuania, and Poland, four honorary doctorates, and numerous prizes and awards. Snyder writes and speaks in the international press on Ukraine, American politics, strategies for averting authoritarianism, digital politics, health, and education, also appearing in documentaries, on network television, in major films, and as an expert witness to Congress. He is a United 24 ambassador where he launched the Safe Skies fund for military defense of Ukraine. Snyder leads 90 scholars in the Ukrainian History Global Initiative, a charitable foundation for research on prehistory of Ukrainian lands, the spread of Indo-European languages, international relations, nation building, and imperialism. Chapters: 00:00 - Russia is Committing Crimes against Ukrainians that Constitute Genocide 01:23 - Russia Boasts about Deporting Ukrainian Children 01:55 - Russian Authorities Continually Gloat about Committing Genocide 02:20 - Russian Authorities Claim that Ukraine Never Existed 03:54 - Putin Believes that the Rules Don't Apply to Him 04:23 - The Russian Government Denies Previous Genocides 04:45 - Russia Has Publicly Planned to Destroy the Ukrainian State 05:06 - Russian State Television Blasts Exterminatory, Dehumanizing Language Every Day 06:18 - Russia Uses the Existence of Ukrainians as a Justification to Annihilate Them