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Ukraine / Russia: announcement of the creation of a tribunal for the crime of aggression. Photo: A Russian serviceman leans against a machine gun on the roof of an armed vehicle bearing the inscription ‘Z’.
What to make of the announced Tribunal for the crime of aggression?
12 May 2025 by Janet H. Anderson
On May 9 around 40 countries announced their support for the creation of a new international court to prosecute the “crime of aggression” by Russia against Ukraine. The result of a joint agreement between Ukraine and the Council of Europe.
Ukraine / Russia: prisoners of war and international humanitarian law. Photo: A Ukrainian prisoner bows his head in the dock during his trial in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Ukrainian prisoners of war and the crisis of international law
9 May 2025 by Lily Hyde
Ukrainian prisoners of war appear to be systematically subjected to abuse by Russia. And the International Committee of the Red Cross is powerless to stop it. This is causing bitterness and disillusion.
Trial of Russian soldier Voislav Torden in Finland for possible war crimes committed in Ukraine. Torden sits on a television screen during his trial, surrounded by his lawyers. Finland on the frontline for trying Russians for war crimes
23 January 2025 by Jeanette Björkqvist
Finland is the stage for an unusual trial, where a 37-year-old Russian citizen is charged with war crimes committed in Ukraine. Voislav Torden is accused of leading an ambush attack in which 22 Ukrainian soldiers were killed, incl [...]
Signing of an agreement between the International Criminal Court (ICC) and Ukraine. How Ukraine (nearly) joined the ICC
6 September 2024 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Ten years after their first referral to the International Criminal Court (ICC), Ukraine has finally become a member of the court on August 21. Ukraine’s parliament’s ratification comes as a surprise to many, not because it hasn’t [...]
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Sexual violence in Ukraine - Photo: Women stand at the door of their apartment building in the city of Lysychansk, a city without electricity and water, in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas.
28 June 2024 by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Prosecuting sexual violence in Ukraine’s war According to the United Nations, there’s been a pattern of sexual violence across Ukraine and the number and consistent reports of sexual violence and rape in Russian-occupied areas suggest “a widespread and systematic pattern com [...]
International Central Securities Depositories (ICSDs): an option for financing Ukraine with Russian money. Image: photo montage of a rouble coin, a Ukrainian flag and frost.
18 June 2024 by Dominique Chabert and Frédéric Jouneau
Finding money for Ukraine: the return of a Cold War financial tool To eventually finance reparations, economic recovery, and especially the war effort in Ukraine, the European Union and G7 leaders seem agreed on using the windfall interest from Russian assets frozen by sanctions. But how? To unde [...]
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.
8 March 2024 by Janet H. Anderson
Ukraine: “We could still expect another ICC arrest warrant soon” Law Professor Sergey Vasiliev analyses the two arrest warrants issued on March 5 by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Sergey Kobylash and Viktor Sokolov, two top officers of the Russian army. He explains what we know [...]
War in Ukraine and justice - Photo: Ukrainian tanks stuck in the mud near the front line.
23 February 2024 by Franck Petit
"Stalemate in the Ukraine war translates into a justice stalemate" Two years ago, on February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, plunging the country into the deadliest war in Europe since 1945 and turning global geopolitics on its head. At the start of this conflict, and then again a year ago, Ju [...]
Looking for the missing in Ukraine - Ukrainian rescuers after the destruction of a residential building in Dnipro (Ukraine) by a missile strike.
29 September 2023 by Margherita Capacci
Looking for the missing in Ukraine Between 20,000 and 30,000 Ukrainians, soldiers and civilians, are considered missing since the start of Russia’s full scale invasion. Some were killed and their bodies never identified, or never returned. Others were abducted. Sin [...]
Ukraine vs Russia hearing at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) - The two countries argued over alleged violations of the Genocide Convention, with the support for Ukraine of 32 allied countries.
22 September 2023 by Molly Quell
Ukraine sees historic support at UN’s top court This week in The Hague, for the first time a Russian representative addressed the UN Court of Justice in the case filed by Ukraine last year, two days into Russia’s full scale invasion. The two countries argued over alleged violat [...]
War crimes in Ukraine - Investigators from the French Gendarmerie's Institute of Criminal Research (IRCGN) examine a body in a tent after its exhumation from a mass grave in Bucha, in cooperation with Ukrainian police.
11 July 2023 by Franck Petit
Yuriy Belousov: “We can’t lose Ukraine’s legal battle” In an interview with Justice Info, the head of the War Crimes Department at the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine takes stock of what has been achieved since the start of the Russian invasion. Yuriy Belousov describes th [...]
Following the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine, grain silos were flooded in Kherson. Ukrainian justice speaks of ecocide.
10 July 2023 by Franck Petit
Kakhovka dam: Ukraine pioneers prosecution for ecocide The scale of ecological disaster triggered on June 6 by the explosion of Ukraine’s Nova Kakhovka dam, located on a Russian-occupied stretch of the Dnieper River, makes this an exemplary case for prosecuting environmental crimes. T [...]
ICC vs Putin - Karim Khan visiting Ukraine
21 March 2023 by Janet H. Anderson
ICC arrest warrants against Putin: what do experts say? Justice Info interviewed a number of experts over the weekend to get their reaction and analysis after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova.
An image of Erik Mose, Jasminka Dzumhur and Pable Greiff of the UN Independent Inquiry Commission on Ukraine in Geneva on 16 March.
20 March 2023 by Julia Crawford
What the UN probe says about crimes committed in Ukraine, as ICC launches Putin arrest warrant On March 17, in a dramatic move, the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced it had issued arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin and his child protection chief for forced deportation of children as a war crime. A UN report issue [...]
International Criminal Court (ICC) in Ukraine - War crimes arrest warrants for Ukrainian children forcibly displaced to Russia.
14 March 2023 by Thierry Cruvellier
Forced transfer of children and destruction of civilian infrastructure: what the ICC is up to in Ukraine, according to the New York Times The leading US daily revealed on 13 March that the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is about to seek arrest warrants for Russian officials for war crimes committed in Ukraine. The first two cases concern the ab [...]
Frédéric Mégret
23 February 2023 by Franck Petit
Frédéric Mégret: "Justice for Ukraine depends on the outcome of the fighting” JUSTICE INFO IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Frédéric Mégret Professor and co-director of the William Dawson Chair in Human Rights and Legal Pluralism One year after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, its leaders remain largely immune from interna [...]
Empty defendant's box in a trial
26 January 2023 by Julia Crawford
Trying Russian leaders in absentia: What would be the pros and cons? Even if, as some are advocating, an international tribunal were set up to try the Russian crime of aggression in Ukraine, it would probably not get President Vladimir Putin and his top aides in custody any time soon, or ever. This [...]
On the stage of the Grand Café Utopie in The Hague (Netherlands), Thierry Cruvellier, Iryna Salli, Anna Mykytenko, Janet H. Anderson and a translator are debating about
17 January 2023 by Justice Info
"Ukraine: Justice in times of war": the full video of our debate in The Hague On December 6th, Justice Info organised a debate on justice in Ukraine, as a side event of the Assembly of States parties to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Entitled "Ukraine: Justice in times of war", the event gave voice [...]
Kevin Jon Heller holds a book in his hands (he is the co-author):
13 December 2022 by Janet H. Anderson
Everything you need to know or argue about a special tribunal on Russia’s crime of aggression There was new momentum this month on the idea of creating a special tribunal that would deal with the crime of aggression of Russia against Ukraine. The president of the European Commission declared her support for it, followed by [...]
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