Ukraine registered nearly 69,000 new Russian war crimes over the past year—with only 97 convictions so far

The tally comes from the country’s chief prosecutor, who marked one year in office by posting the full scorecard and calling his own results “not enough.”
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Infographic on the results of Ruslan Kravchenko’s first year as Ukraine’s Prosecutor General, covering crimes tied to Russia’s aggression, child protection, and corruption recovery. Machine-translated. Infographic: Office of the Prosecutor General
Ukraine registered nearly 69,000 new Russian war crimes over the past year—with only 97 convictions so far

Ukraine's Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko has reviewed the work of his office across his first year in the role. He published infographics on Telegram, counting the crimes of Russia's invasion alongside the office's work on corruption, child protection, and asset recovery at home. 

Every day of the war adds new files to Ukraine's registries, as Russian forces keep targeting civilians. The wider the gap between crimes recorded and trials finished, the more accountability leans on overstretched courts at home and on international tribunals for Russia's commanders.

A year measured against the war

Since June 2025, Ukrainian prosecutors registered and began investigating 72,295 crimes linked to Russia's aggression. Of those, 68,900 are war crimes. Investigators served suspicion notices on 349 people and sent 258 cases to court. Courts have handed down 97 guilty verdicts so far.

As of early March 2026, Ukrainian authorities had recorded about 213,200 episodes of war crimes committed by Russian troops. Courts have handed down verdicts against 242 Russians, 22 of them convicted in person, Suspilne reported. Additionally, Ukraine accuses Russia of deporting tens of thousands of children from occupied territory, a case now before international investigators.
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Chasing wartime corruption

Kravchenko's office also pursued fraud far from the front. In the state budget sphere, prosecutors established 14 billion hryvnias ($312 million) in damages and sent over 2,000 indictments to court. In defense, they filed 408 lawsuits worth 42.6 billion hryvnias ($949 million) and recovered 3.6 billion hryvnias ($80 million) for the state.

Completed cases covered budget embezzlement, illegal payments, fraudulent military medical exemptions, draft evasion, and theft of volunteer aid for the army. Those proceedings established 3.481 billion hryvnias ($78 million) in damages, with 2.8 billion hryvnias ($62 million) already returned. Environmental lawsuits added another 7.5 billion hryvnias ($167 million).
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Returning assets, arming the troops

A review of cases against businesses reshaped part of the year's work. Prosecutors identified 26,818 such files and closed 9,716 of them. Pretrial investigations continue in 15,303 proceedings, which prompted 4,263 expert examinations, while 1,867 cases reached court. The office returned over 80 million hryvnias ($1.8 million) in cash, in several currencies, to businesses, along with precious metals, cars, and equipment.

It also transferred funds and property worth more than 1.3 billion hryvnias ($29 million) to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Kravchenko took office a year ago, when President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed the appointment decree. His office recently submitted evidence to the International Criminal Court on Russia's war crimes against more than 1,800 Ukrainian prisoners.

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