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Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kęstutis Budrys, 2025. Photo: Kęstutis Budrys on X

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Latest news Ukraine

Lithuania urges ICC to treat Russia’s energy attacks as genocide: “Cannot be classified in any other way”

Current ICC warrants do not fully reflect scope of Russia's crimes, Vilnius says, citing systematic attacks meant to leave Ukrainians without power, heat, and water.

byBenjamin Murdoch

Michael O'Flaherty, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, standing in front of a blue backdrop with Council of Europe branding and gold stars

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International

2025 was deadliest year for Ukrainian civilians since 2022, Europe’s human rights chief says

Commissioner condemns Russia's attacks on energy infrastructure amid freezing temperatures

byMaxim Volovich

Trump Putin peace plan protests appeasement

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Latest news Ukraine

“Historic mistake”: EU warns Trump’s amnesty plan for Russia forgiving war crimes, including Bucha invites next aggression

EU commissioner condemns any deal that frees Russia from accountability for war crimes.

byOlena Mukhina

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas delivers press remarks following the Foreign Affairs Council on 20 October 2025

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International

EU ministers condemn Putin’s Budapest visit as Hungary vows to welcome ICC fugitive

The choice of venue carries bitter historical irony for Ukraine, where Kyiv surrendered its nuclear arsenal for security promises Moscow now violates.

byMaxim Volovich

Tajikistan's President Emomali Rahmon and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Dushanbe, 9 October, 2025.

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Latest news Ukraine

Tajikistan welcomes Putin with full honors, ignoring ICC arrest warrant

The ICC has charged Putin with war crimes over the deportation of Ukrainian children, requiring member states like Tajikistan to arrest him if he enters their territory.

byBenjamin Murdoch

Ukrainian prisoner of war returned after Russian captivity.

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Latest news Ukraine

“Moscow mechanism” will now investigate Russia’s killings of Ukrainian POWs at request of 41 nations

Over 90% of returned Ukrainian prisoners report systematic beatings and torture.

byOlena Mukhina

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Latest news Ukraine

ICC issues arrest warrants for Taliban leaders for crimes against women after Russia becomes only country in world to recognize their regime

In 2023, the ICC also charged Russian President Vladimir Putin with war crimes related to the forced deportation of Ukrainian children.

byOlena Mukhina

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Latest news Ukraine

While Moscow’s paraded, 39 nations in Ukraine created modern Nuremberg for Russia

On 9 May, two very different events unfolded simultaneously: as Moscow paraded weapons through Red Square, diplomats in Lviv signed an agreement that could label Putin, Lavrov, and even their allies war criminals.

byOlena Mukhina

"Rome Statute? What Rome Statute?" 0% of countries have acted on Putin, Netanyahu ICC arrest orders

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Analysis

“Rome Statute? What Rome Statute?” 0% of countries have acted on Putin, Netanyahu ICC arrest orders

The International Criminal Court has issued warrants. Not a single country has enforced them. That failure is telling—but it's not unfixable.

byAndrii Mikheiev

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Latest news Ukraine

Ukraine reports 1.6 million children under Russian control

Presidential Office Head Andrii Yermak reveals that human rights defenders estimate nearly 1.6 million Ukrainian children are having their identities systematically erased through forced Russian citizenship, altered records, and military indoctrination.

byOlena Mukhina

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Russian War Crimes

“Putin’s Hitler-Jugend.” Russia builds tomorrow’s army with stolen Ukrainian children, Yale lab reveals

Russian military recruiters visit facilities housing deported Ukrainian children, delivering combat readiness lectures while the Kremlin creates special quotas for orphans in cadet schools.

byVira Kravchuk

Ukraine's National Police identified 12 Russian paratroopers responsible for killing 16 civilians in Bucha during March 2022.

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Latest news Ukraine

Ukraine’s police shows faces of Russian soldiers who murdered civilians in Bucha

Ukraine's Police identified a commander who gave orders to intentionally shoot civilians who appear at a strategic intersection in Bucha.

byVira Kravchuk

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Latest news Ukraine

Russia disrupts food supplies while devastating environment in Ukraine, international lawyers say in ICC

Legal experts report systematic obstruction of evacuations and theft of essential resources since 2022.

byOlena Mukhina

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Latest news Ukraine

Yale researchers trace 148 stolen Ukrainian orphans in hacked Russian database

The researchers exposed details of Russia's adoption network involving forcibly deported children from occupied territories of Ukraine.

byOlena Mukhina

Rescuers are dismantling the rubble of a destroyed house in Ukraine's Brovary district on 11 August 2024

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Latest news Ukraine

Euronews: Satellite data strengthens war crime cases against Russia in Ukraine

Satellite imagery serves as crucial evidence in Ukrainian war crimes investigations, with companies like Planet Labs providing images that help prosecutors establish attack timelines.

byYuri Zoria

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Latest news Ukraine

Russian deliberate policy of violence: Ukraine reports surge in executions of POWs by Moscow troops

Ukrainian authorities have raised alarm over the rising death toll of Ukrainian prisoners of war.

byOlena Mukhina

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Latest news Ukraine

Ukrainian human rights groups accuse Belarus of militarizing Ukrainian children in ICC

Human rights organizations have presented evidence to the ICC detailing the systematic indoctrination and militarization of over 2,200 Ukrainian children in Belarus, marking it as a targeted crime against humanity.

byOlena Mukhina

bloomberg putin assured non-arrest mongolia despite icc warrant russian president vladimir during meeting addressing ukrainian incursion kursk oblast from official video

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Latest news Ukraine

Ukraine condemns Mongolia’s refusal to arrest Putin, calls for consequences

A top Ukrainian diplomat called Putin’s visit to the country 'a heavy blow to the international criminal justice system' and urged international measures following Mongolia’s failure to enact the ICC warrant.

byOksana Ostapchuk

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Latest news Ukraine

Bloomberg: Putin assured of non-arrest in Mongolia despite ICC warrant

Russian President Putin received assurances from Mongolia that he won't be arrested for war crimes during a planned visit, despite an ICC warrant, per Bloomberg.

byYuri Zoria

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Latest news Ukraine

Ukrainian Prosecutor General Kostin reveals 27 countries investigating Russian war crimes

Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin announced that 27 countries have begun their own investigations into crimes committed during the Russian aggression in Ukraine.

byOlena Mukhina

ICC

Lithuania urges ICC to treat Russia’s energy attacks as genocide: “Cannot be classified in any other way”

2025 was deadliest year for Ukrainian civilians since 2022, Europe’s human rights chief says

“Historic mistake”: EU warns Trump’s amnesty plan for Russia forgiving war crimes, including Bucha invites next aggression

EU ministers condemn Putin’s Budapest visit as Hungary vows to welcome ICC fugitive

Tajikistan welcomes Putin with full honors, ignoring ICC arrest warrant

“Moscow mechanism” will now investigate Russia’s killings of Ukrainian POWs at request of 41 nations

ICC issues arrest warrants for Taliban leaders for crimes against women after Russia becomes only country in world to recognize their regime

While Moscow’s paraded, 39 nations in Ukraine created modern Nuremberg for Russia

“Rome Statute? What Rome Statute?” 0% of countries have acted on Putin, Netanyahu ICC arrest orders

Ukraine reports 1.6 million children under Russian control

“Putin’s Hitler-Jugend.” Russia builds tomorrow’s army with stolen Ukrainian children, Yale lab reveals

Ukraine’s police shows faces of Russian soldiers who murdered civilians in Bucha

Russia disrupts food supplies while devastating environment in Ukraine, international lawyers say in ICC

Yale researchers trace 148 stolen Ukrainian orphans in hacked Russian database

Euronews: Satellite data strengthens war crime cases against Russia in Ukraine

Russian deliberate policy of violence: Ukraine reports surge in executions of POWs by Moscow troops

Ukrainian human rights groups accuse Belarus of militarizing Ukrainian children in ICC

Ukraine condemns Mongolia’s refusal to arrest Putin, calls for consequences

Bloomberg: Putin assured of non-arrest in Mongolia despite ICC warrant

Ukrainian Prosecutor General Kostin reveals 27 countries investigating Russian war crimes

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