Maintaining momentum
Another effort found Bickerstaff working with students of the Ukrainian Leadership Academy, a youth leadership movement with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. They created a book titled “Crime Without Punishment,” inspired by the hearing of the International Criminal Court after it issued arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin and Maria Alexeevna Lvova-Belova for war crimes. The 50-kilogram, 6,000-page book chronicled the thousands of kidnapped Ukrainian children and the Russian Federation’s intentional attempts to erase the ethnic and national identity of those abducted children. Given that no one has been detained, it is a crime without punishment.
“I’m not a soldier and I’m not a nurse,” said Kochurenko. “I’m not there on the battlefield, but I have my own power. My creative skill is my weapon and I use it every day.”