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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).
26 February 2024 by Vladyslava Kobko (in Kharkiv, Ukraine / Free Radio)
The Ukrainian drone that said “follow me” Klim Kerzhayev, a Russian soldier, was accused of opening fire on a civilian car in Northeastern Ukraine, back in June 2022. The woman inside the car escaped thanks to the ingenuity of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Her husband was l [...]
Prosecutor interrogates witnesses at the hearing held by the Kominternivskiy District Court of Kharkiv (Ukraine).
15 February 2024 by Tetiana Fedorkova (in Kharkiv, Ukraine, for Mediaport)
An "ordinary man", a grain storage and the Russian occupiers The man with grey hair, escorted into the courtroom in handcuffs, is alleged to have risen up as self-proclaimed manager of the Balakliya Grain Storage Company during the Russian occupation of that city in the Kharkiv region, east [...]
Trial in Ukraine of Denys Kulikovskyi for acts of torture committed in the illegal
19 January 2024 by Vladyslava Kobko (in Kyiv, Ukraine / Free Radio)
In pre-2022 occupied Donetsk, a prison’s hell Denys Kulikovskyi was the warden of the prison "Izolyatsiya" in occupied Donetsk between 2014 and 2018, prior to Russia’s full invasion. Early January he was found guilty of torturing prisoners of war and civilians. The trial was [...]
Klaus Hoffman (a German senior prosecutor of the Advisory Group for the Investigation of the Most Serious International Crimes in Ukraine) explains:
4 December 2023 by Olga Zhuravel (in Dnipro, Ukraine / "Zlochyn.dp.ua")
Klaus Hoffmann: “The problem of collaborators is not only legal, but also political” Klaus Hoffmann is a German senior prosecutor of the Advisory Group for the Investigation of the Most Serious International Crimes, a joint project of the United States, the European Union, and the United Kingdom that supports Ukra [...]
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 (our correspondant in Ukraine / Sudovyi Reporter)
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 [...]
Trial of Russian military officers in Ukraine - Buildings of the Ivankiv District Court seen from the outside.
27 October 2023 by Olena Zhezhera (in Ivankiv, Ukraine)
Trials of Russian military officers continue in Ivankiv In Ukraine, trials of Russian military officers are still ongoing, often discreetly and mostly in absentia. For example, two soldiers were at the end of September sentenced by a local court in the town of Ivankiv, north of the cap [...]
Angelina Dovbnya was tried and jailed for life for high treason in Ukraine. Photo: She takes a selfie in a lift.
24 October 2023 by Anastasia Zubova (in Svitlovodsk, Ukraine / "Sudovyi Reporter")
"I did not pledge allegiance to this country" Angelina Dovbnya., a 21-year old Ukrainian woman, was sentenced to life for high treason by her country’s courts on October 13. Here is the out of the ordinary story of a young woman from Southern Ukraine who used to love travelin [...]
Russian soldiers on trial in Ukraine for war crimes committed in Bucha - Bucha memorial dedicated to the victims.
15 September 2023 by Olena Zhezhera
Bucha: nine Russian soldiers sentenced and more trials to come At the end of August, the Irpin City Court found nine Russian military officers guilty of war crimes committed in Bucha, Kyiv region, in March 2022. This trial held in absentia is the first following investigations in Ukraine on t [...]
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 [...]
Ukraine-Russia: border post seen from Ukraine.
30 June 2023 by Olena Zhyla
In Sumy, a Ukrainian mayor is on trial for high treason Ukrainian courts are moving to try higher-level authorities for alleged collaboration with Russia, or treason. In Sumy, a region bordering Russia in the North-East of Ukraine that was partly occupied by Russian troops between late [...]
Trial in Ukraine of Mykola Fomenko, accused of high treason. He is shown on a television screen during his trial (he was filmed at the time).
15 June 2023 by Anastasia Zubova
GPS and pepper: rare trial of a Ukrainian “strike corrector” "Strike correctors", who help Russian forces direct their missiles, are among the most feared and tracked traitors in Ukraine. But trials are rare. On May 29, a District Court of Kropyvnytskyi found Mykola Fomenko, a 41-year-old r [...]
Pavlo Zaporozhets: a Ukrainian prisoner tried for
23 May 2023 by Olga Zhuravel
Inside the Russian trial of a Ukrainian accused of “international terrorism” This trial is one of the few in Russia related to the war in Ukraine. On the night of May 9, 2022, 32-year-old Pavlo Zaporozhets was detained by the Russian military in Kherson on suspicion of preparing sabotage. He is now tried f [...]
Andriy Domansky, Ukrainian lawyer working on sensitive cases in Ukraine.
18 May 2023 by Olga Zhuravel
Domansky, a lawyer of “principle”  in time of war Before the war, he acted for defendants in high-profile trials – related to a bank robbery, to the Revolution of Dignity - or even represented Joseph Stalin’s interests in an ongoing case on the Crimean Tatars’ deportation. Today, [...]
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 [...]
Treason in Ukraine - Sergei Govorukha (SBU agent)
3 March 2023 by Kateryna Trokhymchuk
“For a fistful of Hryvnia…” - the story of the first SBU agent convicted for treason in Ukraine Sergei Govorukha is the first SBU officer convicted of state treason in Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion. The military counter-intelligence agency was openly singled out last July, when its chief Ivan Bakanov (and prosec [...]
Ukraine - Oleksandr Kostornyi trial (former KGB) for high treason
13 February 2023 by Kateryna Trokhymchuk
Ukraine: was a former KGB officer helping the enemy or picking mushrooms? The March 2022 Russian missile attack on a Ukrainian military training facility in Yavoriv, Western Ukraine, left more than 60 Ukrainians and foreigners dead, and 160 wounded. A court in Lviv is now trying a Ukrainian former KGB o [...]