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Publications made in partnership with local correspondents and published simultaneously on other Ukrainian media.

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Ruslan Glotov, a separatist fighter (in 2014) poses with 2 other soldiers in front of a car.

Ukraine: a 2014 separatist combatant gets caught in the 2022 war

Separatist combatants from Luhansk and Donetsk in eastern Ukraine are regularly tried before Ukrainian courts. Ruslan Glotov was one of them back in 2014. In March 2022, he was identified while enlisted to go and fight with the Ukrainian army against Russia. He claimed he had been rehabilitated, but on December 9, he was sentenced […]

By Kateryna Trokhymchuk

Map of Ukraine with Ukrainian flag inside and 2 icons : a tank symbolizing war and a scale symbolizing justice

Map of war crimes trials in Ukraine

Tatiana Nezelenikova is in the dock, accused of high treason in Crimea by a Ukrainian court.

High treason in Crimea: "I don’t understand why I’m punished so severely"

Ukrainian judge Volodymyr Pavlov delivers his verdict on a case of sexual violence during the war in Ukraine

First sentence for sexual violence in the Ukraine war

Tetyana Drobot cries in the dock during her trial in Ukraine

Ukraine: From "classroom" to prison - one click

Trial of Roman Serhiyovych Zhmarev in Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine.

Ukraine: Trial of an ordinary citizen betrayed by his phone

Exterior view of the district court of Chernihiv in Ukraine.

How a rape trial against Russian soldiers is shaping up in Chernihiv

A photo montage shows the Russian soldier Serhiy Steiner (in uniform) on one side and the Ukrainian court in charge of trying him on the other side.

Ukraine: First verdict in absentia for Russian war crimes

Traitors around? How supporters of Russian aggression are (half) punished in Ukraine

Ruslan Yelkin, a separatist fighter accused of treason in Ukraine, sits during his trial in Odessa. He holds a crutch in his hand.

The trial of a Ukrainian separatist in Odesa: "I hoped they would come back for us"

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

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

Mikhail Romanov

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

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

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

Trial of Vadim Shishimarin in an ukrainian court

Ukraine opens first war crime trial of a Russian soldier

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