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Balakliya's ‘ordinary man’, Anatoliy Derevyanko, during his trial for collaboration in Ukraine. Photo: Balakliya stands behind the glass in the dock.
The Balakliya “ordinary man” released on probation
12 November 2024 by Tetiana Fedorkova
He kept hoping, but did not expect it. He came to hear the verdict without his belongings and passport: he did not think he would be released. In a rare decision in collaboration cases in Ukraine, after more than a year and a half [...]
Trial of private entrepreneurs for collaboration with Russia in Ukraine. Photo: During a trial in Ukraine, a witness appears from behind, facing a judge in a small courtroom. How Ukraine brings to justice private entrepreneurs
10 October 2024 by Anastasia Zubova
Who are the people have been prosecuted for economic collaboration over the past three years in Ukraine? Journalist Anastasia Zubova analysed dozens of cases brought before Ukrainian courts since 2022. She identified some trends a [...]
Trial for collaboration in Ukraine. Photo: A man removes a Russian propaganda poster in Kherson upon his liberation by Ukrainian armed forces. 14 years in jail for 45 days of work with the police under Russian occupation
2 September 2024 by Iryna Salii
A district council representative of Kherson, in Southern Ukraine, who became an operative of the police under Russian occupation, was put on trial on charges of collaboration. He claimed he was forced to join the occupation polic [...]
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?
11 July 2024 by Anastasia Zubova
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 aft [...]
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Trial of Oleksandr Radchenko in Ukraine. Photo: A television broadcasts live images of prosecutor Dmytro Reshetnyak and Vitaliy Bessonov, one of the defence lawyers.
31 May 2024 by Tetiana Fedorkova
Oleksander Radchenko, a patriot or a collaborator? Former businessman and politician Oleksander Radchenko is currently accused of complicity with Russia during the occupation of Kupiansk, in eastern Ukraine. The founder and CEO of the Kupiansk Milk Canning Factory was detained for [...]
Collaboration trial in Ukraine - Video of Oleksandr Kharchenko, one of the defendants.
26 March 2024 by Iryna Salii
Chronicle of a tandem collaboration in a village near Kyiv In this rare legal chronicle, which covers several months of trials of two men in two courts in the region of Kyiv, the capital city of Ukraine, our correspondent tells the story of how collaboration with the Russian occupiers tak [...]
Prosecutor interrogates witnesses at the hearing held by the Kominternivskiy District Court of Kharkiv (Ukraine).
15 February 2024 by Tetiana Fedorkova
An "ordinary man", a grain storage and the Russian occupiers The man with grey hair, escorted into the courtroom in handcuffs, is alleged to have risen up as self-proclaimed manager of the Balakliya Grain Storage Company during the Russian occupation of that city in the Kharkiv region, east [...]
Klaus Hoffman (a German senior prosecutor of the Advisory Group for the Investigation of the Most Serious International Crimes in Ukraine) explains:
4 December 2023 by Olga Zhuravel
Klaus Hoffmann: “The problem of collaborators is not only legal, but also political” Klaus Hoffmann is a German senior prosecutor of the Advisory Group for the Investigation of the Most Serious International Crimes, a joint project of the United States, the European Union, and the United Kingdom that supports Ukra [...]
Collaborators in Ukraine - Police officers take oath in front of the Russian authorities in Ghenichesk, near Kherson (occupied zone).
20 July 2023 by Iryna Salii
Collaboration in occupied Kherson: “As a decent daughter I went breaking the law” A police officer from Kherson (southern Ukraine), who provided the Ukrainian security service with information on more than 1,000 alleged collaborators, has been sentenced late june to five years in jail by a court in the capital [...]
Trial for collaboration in Ukraine - Trial of Viktor Kyrylov
20 April 2023 by Iryna Salii
Kherson police officers convicted for collaboration: "I thought I was helping people" Two Ukrainians who took jobs in the police during the 9-month Russian occupation of Kherson were sentenced to 12 years in jail, for collaboration, by a court in Kyiv. Ukraine’s justice system is trying more and more of its citizen [...]