Documenting war crimes in Ukraine

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Interviews 25 March 2023

One gun against a pack of invaders: Olena Kratkovska on her father’s death

Olena’s father died on the seventh day of the war, defending his house in the village of Yahidne. He was a pensioner, but when the Russian invaders entered the village, he picked up a hunting rifle and went against the enemy.

Interviews 22 March 2023

Russians kept residents of the Chernihiv Region in the basement for a month

Unfortunately, not everyone came out of the basement when the Ukrainian army de-occupied the village. The Russians allowed women to go outside only once on 8 March, this was the way to congratulate them on International Women’s Day.

Interviews 18 March 2023

“War on four paws” — personal battle of Serhii Neboha

A vast number of animals have suffered since the beginning of the full-scale Russian aggression. The well-known cynologist Serhii Neboha helps his colleagues save dogs and talks about the problems of evacuation, cases of cruelty to animals, and the destruction of kennels.

Interviews 15 March 2023

She was about to turn 53. A citizen of Trostianets speaks about his wife’s detention and murder

Ihor Ivanov, an ethnic Bashkir who lives in Trostyanets, still cannot believe that his wife is no more. He did not want to leave the city during the occupation because he hoped she would return.

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Featured Video

28 March 2023

‘The village that’s like a ghost town’

Zinayida Kostenko lives in Moshchun, a village near Kyiv. From the very first days of the war, Russian artillery shelled the village. Preliminary estimates say 75% of Moshchun’s houses were completely destroyed.

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Quick Facts

1. What is the Tribunal for Putin (T4P)?

The Tribunal for Putin (T4P) is a global initiative set up by Ukrainian NGOs in response to the Russian Invasion. From the very outset, the invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces in February 2022 was accompanied by a large number of War Crimes.

T4P’s purpose is to gather and collate information about these crimes for future court hearings.

2. What is a War Crime?

We are guided by the definitions included in the 1998 Rome Statute that inaugurated the International Criminal Court. The Statute defines a War Crime as the following: attacks on civilians, the destruction of civilian buildings, the taking of hostages, the use of individuals as “human shields”, forced migration, torture, kidnapping and other crimes committed during a war.

3. What does T4P do?

We gather information about specific crimes and enter them in a purpose-built database. We prepare legal cases and send them to the International Criminal Court in the Hague and to other institutions. We compile analytical documents.

Furthermore, we publish the first-hand experiences of the war by certain people and we care for its victims.

4. Where does T4P get its information?

T4P gets a significant part of its information from open sources. We also interview witnesses and the victims of war crimes and, where possible, our mobile groups document events where they took place.

Live Statistics

Information about war crimes in maps, diagrams and tables

Our database represents one of the largest concentrations of information about the war in Ukraine. It records probable war crimes (incidents) that we have been able to document. The information contained in the database makes no claim to be complete and final. The true total for certain war crimes is, almost certainly, significantly higher than those we have been able to document.

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Latest Statement

19 March 2023

On the warrant issued for Putin’s arrest

In a statement published on 18 March 2023, the Tribunal for Putin coalition welcomes the warrant issued by the International Criminal Court for the arrest of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin and of Maria Lvova-Belova, the Commissioner for Children’s Rights. T4P calls on the governments of the world to support and facilitate this decision and stresses the necessity for Ukraine to ratify the Rome Statute.

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