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Iryna Salii

Ukraine - Correspondent

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Iryna Salii

Iryna Salii is a Ukrainian journalist specializing in coverage of criminal justice in the field of top corruption and war crimes. After several years as an investigative journalist for the NGO “Nashi Groshi” (Our Money) and as a judicial reporter for the News Agency Censor.net, she founded her own media project, “Sudovyy Reporter” (Court Reporter) in December 2017. Editor and court reporter, she monitors court decisions, and has developed a network of correspondents across Ukraine. She became a pillar of a Hirondelle Foundation programme supporting Ukrainian journalists all over the country. In Ukraine and beyond, “Sudovyy Reporter” is now a unique news reference on war crimes and war related trials.

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The trial of Nikolai Kartashov, 22, a Russian artilleryman accused of war crimes committed in the town of Boucha (Ukraine) opened on November 20.
A Russian officer on trial for murder in Bucha
5 December 2024 by Iryna Salii
On 20 November 2024, the Irpin City Court started the trial of a young Russian military officer whose unit opened fire and killed a convenient store security guard in Bucha, in the region of Kyiv, the capital city of Ukraine, in F [...]
Trial of Mykola Fedorian in Ukraine for crimes of treason committed in Russian-occupied Crimea. Photo: Fedorian at his trial in Kyiv, behind the glass of the dock. “I consider it cynical to accuse Crimeans of treason against Ukraine”
31 October 2024 by Iryna Salii
Mykola Fedorian was deputy chief of the Crimean Ministry of Internal Affairs until 2011. He was working at a state-owned company when Russia annexed Crimea. He stayed, keeping his Ukrainian passport and making visits back home. Un [...]
Daniil Martynov in Ukraine - Photo: Two armed soldiers pose (thumbs up) in front of the back of a Porsche. A Kadyrov brother-in-arms sentenced in Ukraine
27 September 2024 by Iryna Salii
Twelve vulnerable patients died during three weeks of terror they faced in the first days of the Russian occupation. They died in a Ukrainian psychoneurological hospice under the control of a Russian colonel close to Chechen leade [...]
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 [...]
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Oleksandr Kostornyi, a former KGB officer, was sentenced to 15 years in prison in Ukraine for high treason. Photo: Kostornyi is pressed up against the glass of the dock, his hand resting on it, facing his reflection.
11 June 2024 by Iryna Salii
Kostornyi, the former KGB officer found guilty of high treason Over 60 dead and 160 wounded. Ukrainian and foreign combatants. The missile attack on a Ukrainian military training centre in Yavoriv, western Ukraine, on March 13, 2022, was widely reported at the start of the all-out invasion. I [...]
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.
25 April 2024 by Iryna Salii
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 th [...]
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 [...]
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.
7 November 2023 by Iryna Salii
One year after being exchanged, a Russian pilot sentenced in Chernihiv The images of the pilot shot down in the early days of Russia's all-out attack on Ukraine made the headlines. But despite his relative celebrity and his confession to bombing Chernihiv, the man was exchanged before he could be tri [...]
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 [...]
At his trial for high treason in Odessa, Mykolaïv district prosecutor Gennadyi Herman receives eggs thrown by the victims' families in the audience.
4 July 2023 by Iryna Salii
A chief prosecutor, a Telegram account and the memory of a deadly strike This is the first time an official of this rank is being tried in Ukraine for high treason, and there was tension from the day it started. Gennadyi Herman was a head prosecutor in Mykolaïv when Russia’s invasion began, and the cit [...]
Incitement to genocide in Ukraine - Anton Krasovsky sentenced
21 April 2023 by Iryna Salii and Thierry Cruvellier
Ukrainian justice sanctions “incitement to genocide” Last February, journalist and television presenter Anton Krasovsky of Russia Today was sentenced in absentia to 5 years in prison for incitement to the genocide of Ukrainians by a court in Kyiv. A case that is a reminder of the fi [...]
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 [...]
War crimes in Ukraine: Russian pilot Maksim Krishtop speaks at a press conference
13 March 2023 by Iryna Salii
War crime in Ukraine: A Russian pilot is convicted… and exchanged This is the first case of a Russian pilot being sentenced in Ukraine and present in court. On March 2 Lieutenant Colonel Maksim Krishtop was found guilty of committing a war crime for the bombing of the Kharkiv television tower. H [...]
4 Russian soldiers in uniform sit in the dock during their torture trial in Ukraine.
23 January 2023 by Iryna Salii
Ukraine: Four Russian soldiers convicted for torture Justice Info reports on the latest trial of Russian soldiers held at the end of the year in Kotelva, eastern Ukraine. The four men, members of a Russian army special forces unit, pleaded guilty and were sentenced to 11 years in pr [...]
Ukrainian judge Volodymyr Pavlov delivers his verdict on a case of sexual violence during the war in Ukraine
10 November 2022 by Iryna Salii
First sentence for sexual violence in the Ukraine war On November 2, the Novozavodsk District Court of Chernihiv, in northern Ukraine, handed down a sentence in absentia to two Russian servicemen who were accused of abusing residents of an occupied village in Chernihiv region in Marc [...]
Exterior view of the district court of Chernihiv in Ukraine.
7 October 2022 by Iryna Salii
How a rape trial against Russian soldiers is shaping up in Chernihiv The two Russian soldiers left a phone number behind, but have not answered calls from the court handling their case for having terrorised a 16-year-old Ukrainian girl and her family. While Ukraine’s Prosecutor General is working o [...]
A lawyer (Viktor Ovsyannikov ) in a suit sits in the foreground. In the background are military personnel and a Vadim Shishimarin in the dock.
29 August 2022 by Iryna Salii
Ukraine: What it’s like to be lawyer for a Russian fighting your country On July 29, the Kyiv Court of Appeal reduced to 15 years the sentence of the first Russian soldier tried for war crimes in Ukraine since February 24. Vadim Shishimarin had been sentenced In May to life imprisonment. We met with Vi [...]
Mikhail Kulikov trial, russian war prisonner
28 July 2022 by Iryna Salii
War crimes trial in Chernihiv: "There is an oath to carry out the commander's orders" The war crimes trial of Russian soldier Mykhailo Kulikov is ongoing in the Ukrainian city of Chernihiv. On February 26, 2022, he allegedly fired one shot from a tank into a civilian high-rise on the outskirts of the city. The new [...]
Prisoners of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic held by Ukrainian forces
15 July 2022 by Iryna Salii
Inside courts where Ukrainian judges try Ukrainian POWs Dozens of Ukrainian combatants from Ukraine’s occupied territories who joined the Russian army’s invasion have been captured by the Ukrainian army. They are being tried en masse. The specialized news website “Sudovyi Reporter” ("C [...]
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