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Justice initiatives regarding crimes committed in Ukraine have multiplied since the beginning of the Russian invasion. But some war crimes date back to far before 2022. Discover all of our publications covering the different courts and trials in Ukraine and abroad.

Arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against senior Russian military officers for crimes committed in Ukraine. Photo: Valery Gerasimov and Sergei Shoigu in military uniforms (Russia)
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ICC: Arrest warrants for the heads of the Russian army

On 25 June, the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced that it had issued arrest warrants for Russian Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov and former Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu. They are both accused of war crimes for attacks on civilian objects and crimes against humanity for inhumane acts. These arrest warrants follow four others already […]
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Enforced disappearances in Ukraine - The mother of the missing Andrii Shapoval shows a video of her son on her phone.

Enforced disappearance in Ukraine: Andrii’s mother's tortured path

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.

Finding money for Ukraine: the return of a Cold War financial tool

In Ukraine, a claim for reparation (compensation) for damages and destructions is launched. Photos: several images of Ukrainians in front of civilian buildings (often homes) destroyed by Russian missiles.

Register of Damages for Ukraine: “The biggest claims program in history”

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.

Kostornyi, the former KGB officer found guilty of high treason

Trial of Oleksandr Radchenko in Ukraine. Photo: A television broadcasts live images of prosecutor Dmytro Reshetnyak and Vitaliy Bessonov, one of the defence lawyers.

Oleksander Radchenko, a patriot or a collaborator?

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.

War crimes in the Kyiv region: a Russian soldier sentenced to 12 years

Collaboration trial in Ukraine - Video of Oleksandr Kharchenko, one of the defendants.

Chronicle of a tandem collaboration in a village near Kyiv

Demonstration in Vilnius (Lithuania). Two women hold signs saying

It is "now or never", for a special tribunal on Russia's aggression

Trial of a Ukrainian in Russia: Anton Cherednik, in Rostov-on-Don.

Russia: 30 times fewer Ukrainians sentenced than in the occupied territories

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.

Ukraine: “We could still expect another ICC arrest warrant soon”

School bombed by Russian air force in Ukraine

ICC indicts two high-ranking Russian military commanders

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has heard arguments from Aishath Shaan Shakir for the Maldives, on the subject of Israel's occupation of Palestine.

Is the ICJ the new “nuclear weapon” of small states?

The story of how a Ukrainian drone helped a woman escape a war crime - Photo: Valeriya Bohomaz walks along a country road (aerial photo taken from the drone guiding her).

The Ukrainian drone that said “follow me”

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"

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”