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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"

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, Justice Info interviewed academic Frédéric Mégret about the challenges of justice in Ukraine. In this […]

By Franck Petit (Justice Info)

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"

A window into the trial of the Ukrainian “Aidar” battalion in Russia

A day of defence for the “Azov” in Rostov-on-Don military court

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.

Ukraine sees historic support at UN’s top court

Russian soldiers on trial in Ukraine for war crimes committed in Bucha - Bucha memorial dedicated to the victims.

Bucha: nine Russian soldiers sentenced and more trials to come

Prigozhin is dead, will Wagner’s crimes remain unpunished?

Trials of Ukrainian fighters in Russia - A bus leaves Lefortovo prison loaded with Ukrainian prisoners of war in preparation for an exchange.

One year on, how Russia is starting to try Ukrainians

Trial of alleged members of the Azov Battalion in Russia, at Rostov-on-Don.

Ukraine: in Russia, alleged members of the “Azov” Battalion plead not guilty

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”

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.

Yuriy Belousov: “We can’t lose Ukraine’s legal battle”