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Composite image showing a child with Ukrainian flag patch on the jacket gripping bars, symbolizing Ukrainian children deported to Russia

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Latest news Ukraine

Another group of Ukrainian children freed from Russian deportation, propaganda and abuse

Among those returned: a 10-year-old bullied for speaking Ukrainian, children orphaned by medical neglect, and a teenager tortured over family ties to Ukraine's military.

byMaxim Volovich

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signs the tribunal agreement during a ceremony in Strasbourg.

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Latest news Ukraine

Europe’s tribunal for Russian war crimes runs into Trump problem: who pays?

Euronews reports that European donors are wary of funding €75M annual costs amid reduced US engagement under Trump.

byBenjamin Murdoch

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

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Latest news Ukraine

Russia eliminates monitoring of facilities where beatings, electrocution becomes standard practice against Ukrainian POWs

Russia plans even worse crimes against Ukrainians after quitting a torture convention, says the Ukrainian ombudsman.

byOlena Mukhina

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Latest news Ukraine

Russia could face special tribunal for crime of aggression in Ukraine by 2026 to hold senior officials accountable

The Council of Europe advanced process of establishing the tribunal to prosecute Russian aggression against Ukraine as the international justice mechanisms, like the International Criminal Court, lack jurisdiction.

byVira Kravchuk

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Latest news Ukraine

RFE/RL: US cuts funding for Yale research about Ukrainian children deportations to Russia

Yale Humanitarian Research Lab experts were cut off from their extensive three-year archive documenting Ukrainian children forcibly taken to Russia, according to the executive director.

byVira Kravchuk

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Latest news Ukraine

Ukraine repatriates seven deported children from Russia under Qatar mediation

Russian official claims Ukraine returned seven children, while transferring two "Russian" boys to Russia.

byYuri Zoria

Brenda J. Hollis, who leads the ICC Office of the Prosecutor's investigations into international crimes in Ukraine

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Latest news Ukraine

ICC team investigates Russian torture chambers in Kharkiv Oblast

The International Criminal Court investigators collected evidence of Russian war crimes amid the ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan's sixth visit to Ukraine.

byBohdan Ben

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Latest news Ukraine

Russia deports 40,000 Ukrainian children, forces assimilation via “patriotic re-education” camps

Ukrainian children are being relocated as far as 8,000 kilometers (4,970 miles) from their homes and taught by a curriculum designed to "eradicate national identity" and "forcibly assimilate Ukrainian children.”

byOksana Ostapchuk

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Latest news Ukraine

Ukrainian military strongly supports Rome Statute ratification, new survey reveals

Ukrainian parliament ratified the Rome Statute on 21 August 2024, although some MPs claimed that soldiers allegedly had concerns about its ratification.

byBohdan Ben

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Analysis

Ukraine ratifies Rome Statute: how it aids prosecuting Russian war crimes

After two decades of hesitation, Ukraine has finally ratified the Rome Statute, potentially unleashing a flood of war crime prosecutions against Russian perpetrators in the International Criminal Court.

byVira Kravchuk

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

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Latest news Ukraine

“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

US pledges $ 1 mn to International investigation of Russian aggression against Ukraine

Prosecutors at the Hague-based International Center are already gathering evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine.

byMaria Tril

Top-10 Russian genocidal quotes about Ukraine

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Russian War Crimes

Top-10 Russian genocidal quotes about Ukraine

Vladimir Putin and Russian officials have left no room for ambiguity: they openly aim to erase Ukrainians as a nation. Vote to choose the most blatantly genocidal and chauvinistic utterance of Russian propagandists or officials in our poll.

byYevheniia Martyniuk