Precision missiles hit the coordinates. Investigators ask who was still standing there
A new framework names the pattern in four Russian strikes—and aims at Russia’s standard legal defense.
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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."
Reuters: US funding cuts are stalling investigations into Russian torture and child abductions
The Trump administration slashed tens of millions of dollars for the work last year.
WP: Hungary is sharing intelligence with Iran, while Vance flies to Budapest to back its leader amid election campaign
Vance is Campaigning for a man whose minister offered Iran his intelligence services.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ukraine repatriates seven deported children from Russia under Qatar mediation
Russian official claims Ukraine returned seven children, while transferring two "Russian" boys to Russia.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
US to share Russian war crimes evidence with Hague Court
President Joe Biden ordered the US government to begin sharing evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine with the International Criminal Court.
Ukraine returns 31 kids abducted by Russia
On 8 April 2023, Ukraine returned 31 children who were forcibly deported to Russia from the occupied territories…