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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.

A lawyer (Viktor Ovsyannikov ) in a suit sits in the foreground. In the background are military personnel and a Vadim Shishimarin in the dock.

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 Viktor Ovsyannikov, the man who agreed to defend this emblematic case.

By Iryna Salii

Alexander Bastrykin poses in front of a Russian flag

Ukraine: What to make of Russia’s copycat justice

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

Two Yemeni children take the last bags of food from a truck as part of a feeding program.

Starvation, a war crime never yet punished, in Ukraine and elsewhere

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

Dead bodies on Yablunska street in Bucha (Ukraine)

Reporting atrocities, a testimony from Bucha

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

Two women (one holding a cross) in a cemetery in Bucha, Ukraine.

Genocide in Ukraine: what are the roots of the debate?

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

Ukraine, ICC and Eurojust: how will that work