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Trial for collaboration in Ukraine. Photo: A Ukrainian woman is tried before a court in Dnipro.

Collaboration trials in Ukraine: what do court verdicts tell us?

From March 2022 to June 2024, more than 8,000 proceedings on collaboration crimes have been registered by Ukraine’s Prosecutor General. Last year, 790 verdicts were delivered. But the law on collaboration that was passed right after Russia’s invasion in 2022 is criticized, including by the country’s Education Ombudsman. Courts are showing signs of a more […]

By Anastasia Zubova (in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine / Gre4ka)

Trial of Oleksandr Radchenko in Ukraine. Photo: A television broadcasts live images of prosecutor Dmytro Reshetnyak and Vitaliy Bessonov, one of the defence lawyers.

Oleksander Radchenko, a patriot or a collaborator?

Collaboration trial in Ukraine - Video of Oleksandr Kharchenko, one of the defendants.

Chronicle of a tandem collaboration in a village near Kyiv

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

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”

Collaborators in Ukraine - Police officers take oath in front of the Russian authorities in Ghenichesk, near Kherson (occupied zone).

Collaboration in occupied Kherson: “As a decent daughter I went breaking the law”

Trial for collaboration in Ukraine - Trial of Viktor Kyrylov

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