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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

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Latest news Ukraine

Ukraine’s Parliament ratifies Rome Statute

Ukraine signed the Statute in 2000, but until today, it hasn't been ratified by the Parliament. The ratification will allow Ukraine to play a role in shaping the International Criminal Court, including the election of judges.

byBohdan Ben

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Latest news Ukraine

VOA: Ukraine resumes efforts to ratify Rome Statute despite fears of Russian manipulation

The decision aims to facilitate international scrutiny of crimes committed on Ukrainian soil.

byOlena Mukhina

Russia's former Defense Minister Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Gerasimov

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“Crimes against humanity”: International Court issues arrest warrants for Russia’s Shoigu and Gerasimov

The International Criminal Court (ICC) found reasonable grounds to believe that Russia's former Defense Minister Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Gerasimov intentionally caused great suffering and serious injury to Ukrainian civilians by directing a series of missile strikes against Ukraine's electric infrastructure.

byVira Kravchuk

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Latest news Ukraine

Over 160 Russian torture sites found in Ukraine, says Ukrainian prosecutor general

The investigation has recognized more than 3,800 civilians and 2,200 POWs as victims of Russian war crimes.

byOlena Mukhina

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Latest news Ukraine

Human rights groups urge ICC to investigate leading Russian propagandists for hate crimes

Citing over 300 instances of hate speech, human rights defenders have submitted evidence to the International Criminal Court alleging that five Russian propagandists are responsible for crimes against humanity during Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

byAlya Shandra

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Latest news Ukraine

Campaign against indoctrination: Ukrainian non-governmental organizations push for legal protection in Ukraine

Civil society groups call for legislative action to save children from Russian propaganda and prevent further indoctrination.

byOlena Mukhina

Russian troops in Ukraine, February 2022. Photo: kommersant.ru

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Latest news Ukraine

Reuters: Man tortured by Russian troops in southern Ukraine seeks justice in Argentina

If accepted by an Argentine court, the complaint could mark the first case of alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine filed outside of Europe and the US.

byOlena Mukhina

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Latest news Ukraine

International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for high-ranking Russian military officials

Lieutenant General Sergei Kobylash and Admiral Viktor Sokolov stand accused of conducting a campaign of missile strikes against Ukrainian energy infrastructure and committing the crime against humanity.

byIryna Voichuk

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Latest news Ukraine

Putin must face trial in ICC for crimes against Ukraine, says deputy mayor of The Hague on second anniversary of Russia’s war

Russian leader Vladimir Putin must face trial in the International Criminal Court (ICC) for his crimes against Ukraine,…

byOlena Mukhina

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Hybrid War

Ex-Russian GRU officer Salikov exposes Russia’s proxy Ukraine “republics” (full translation)

In a bombshell interview, Salikov, who arrived to testify at the ICC, tells how Russia manufactured a "local uprising" in eastern Ukraine, funneled weapons over the border, and shelled its own territory to keep the conflict going

byAlya Shandra