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Justice initiatives regarding crimes committed in Ukraine have multiplied since the beginning of the Russian invasion. But some war crimes date back to far before 2022. Discover all of our publications covering the different courts and trials in Ukraine and abroad.

Trial of a Russian soldier for war crimes near Kyiv, Ukraine - Photo: a Ukrainian civilian walks down the street while smoke is visible in the distance following a Russian shell strike.
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War crimes in the Kyiv region: a Russian soldier sentenced to 12 years

This case is one of the rare trials of Russian soldiers in Ukraine, for a war crime that took place near the city of Borodyanka, 25 kilometers distant from the martyred city of Bucha. One of the thousands of crimes committed in the Kyiv region in the early days of the Russian invasion. On April […]
By Iryna Salii (in Kyiv, Ukraine / Sudovyi Reporter)
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Collaboration trial in Ukraine - Video of Oleksandr Kharchenko, one of the defendants.

Chronicle of a tandem collaboration in a village near Kyiv

Demonstration in Vilnius (Lithuania). Two women hold signs saying

It is "now or never", for a special tribunal on Russia's aggression

Trial of a Ukrainian in Russia: Anton Cherednik, in Rostov-on-Don.

Russia: 30 times fewer Ukrainians sentenced than in the occupied territories

War crimes in Ukraine and ICC arrest warrants - Photo: Sergey Surovikin (former Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army) and Vladimir Putin pose in front of Russian flags.

Ukraine: “We could still expect another ICC arrest warrant soon”

School bombed by Russian air force in Ukraine

ICC indicts two high-ranking Russian military commanders

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has heard arguments from Aishath Shaan Shakir for the Maldives, on the subject of Israel's occupation of Palestine.

Is the ICJ the new “nuclear weapon” of small states?

The story of how a Ukrainian drone helped a woman escape a war crime - Photo: Valeriya Bohomaz walks along a country road (aerial photo taken from the drone guiding her).

The Ukrainian drone that said “follow me”

War in Ukraine and justice - Photo: Ukrainian tanks stuck in the mud near the front line.

"Stalemate in the Ukraine war translates into a justice stalemate"

Prosecutor interrogates witnesses at the hearing held by the Kominternivskiy District Court of Kharkiv (Ukraine).

An "ordinary man", a grain storage and the Russian occupiers

Russian trial in Donetsk: 33 Ukrainian prisoners of war sentenced.

More than 200 Ukrainians tried in the occupied territories

Trial in Ukraine of Denys Kulikovskyi for acts of torture committed in the illegal

In pre-2022 occupied Donetsk, a prison’s hell

Klaus Hoffman (a German senior prosecutor of the Advisory Group for the Investigation of the Most Serious International Crimes in Ukraine) explains:

Klaus Hoffmann: “The problem of collaborators is not only legal, but also political”

Ukrainian soldiers surrender to the Russian army in Mariupol (Ukraine) in April 2022.

In Donetsk, over 100 Ukrainian soldiers sentenced in four months

Aleksandr Krasnoyartsev: a Russian pilot captured in Ukraine, exchanged with Russia and then tried in Ukraine in absentia (in the absence of the accused) for war crimes.

One year after being exchanged, a Russian pilot sentenced in Chernihiv

Russian prisoners of war exchanged for Ukrainian POWs - Photo: russian soldiers holding flags.

Russian soldiers exchanged with Ukraine: what happens after

Trial of Russian military officers in Ukraine - Buildings of the Ivankiv District Court seen from the outside.

Trials of Russian military officers continue in Ivankiv

Angelina Dovbnya was tried and jailed for life for high treason in Ukraine. Photo: She takes a selfie in a lift.

"I did not pledge allegiance to this country"

Looking for the missing in Ukraine - Ukrainian rescuers after the destruction of a residential building in Dnipro (Ukraine) by a missile strike.

Looking for the missing in Ukraine