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Alexander Bastrykin poses in front of a Russian flag

Ukraine: What to make of Russia’s copycat justice

A top Russian official said in late July that Moscow had charged 92 members of the Ukrainian armed forces with “crimes against the peace and security of mankind” and opened over 1,300 criminal investigations. Are there any grounds, and should we take this Russian move seriously?

By Julia Crawford

Mikhail Kulikov trial, russian war prisonner

War crimes trial in Chernihiv: "There is an oath to carry out the commander's orders"

Prisoners of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People's Republic held by Ukrainian forces

Inside courts where Ukrainian judges try Ukrainian POWs

Destroyed street of Bucha, in Ukraine

Four Ways to Accountability in Ukraine

Mikhail Romanov

Ukraine: The first war time rape trial is held in absentia and behind closed doors

Prisoner of war in Ulkraine

Crimes against prisoners of war in Ukraine: can both sides be tried?

3 soldiers (Aiden Aslin, Shaun Pinner and Brahim Saadoun) stand behind bars

Ukraine: why the ‘show trial’ of British POWs violates Geneva Conventions

Cardboard tubes displaying photo portraits of Vladimir Putin, on the display of a merchant in Russia

Ukraine: “Putin’s goal is not eradication but subjugation”

A Ukrainian policeman from behind. In the background, the two accused Russian soldiers, Aleksandr Bobykin and Aleksandr Ivanov, in the box, during their trial in Ukraine.

Two Russian soldiers are convicted in Ukraine’s second war crimes trial

A man sitting in front of a desk works on 3 screens (satellite map + war image + ICC website)

Insights on the digital revolution for war crimes probes in Ukraine

Karim Khan, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), is visiting Bucha (Ukraine) with Iryna Venediktova. On the back of a person accompanying them, one can read

Ukraine: The risk of judging war crimes during war

Convicted of war crimes, Vadim Shishimarin waits in the dock of a court in Kiev (Ukraine)

First Ukraine war crime trial through the eyes of a local court reporter

Vadim Shishimarin, a russian soldier, listens court sentence at his trial for war crime in Ukraine

Russian soldier gets maximum sentence for war crime in Ukraine

Trial of Vadim Shishimarin in an ukrainian court

Ukraine opens first war crime trial of a Russian soldier

Meeting at the Eurojust offices in The Hague (round table)

Ukraine, ICC and Eurojust: how will that work

Sign, during a demonstration, reading

A Nuremberg for Russia’s crime of aggression?

Alexander Lukashenko surrounded by military (Russian and Belarusian flags)

How Lukashenko can be held accountable for Putin’s war in Ukraine

Mykola Gnatovsky

Ukraine: “The momentum is there for a tribunal on aggression”

Iryna Venediktova and a man face the press. In the background, corpses wrapped in body bags, men and a crane.

War crimes in Ukraine: Bucha’s hell, through the eyes of a musician