Documenting war crimes in Ukraine

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Interviews 26 May 2023

‘There were more than five thousand of us in the shelter,’ the first days of war in Mariupol

When the war began, servicewoman Valeriia Krokis was eight months pregnant. She managed to escape the occupation, gave birth to her child in Lviv, and was reunited with her husband, who had been wounded at the frontine.

Interviews 23 May 2023

‘I fell face down in the glass and covered my head with my hands’

We met with Halyna Khoroshchak in her apartment in Borodianka, which was destroyed by air strikes. With tears in her eyes, the woman spoke about how the Russians dropped bombs on residential buildings, shot civilians, and looted.

Events 20 May 2023

International Memorial Association Statement

On February 22, 2022, International Memorial was dissolved by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. But, as we see, Memorial cannot be “dissolved”, just as a human being cannot be deprived of their innate ability to keep memories and reflect.

Interviews 19 May 2023

‘I believe the war will end soon, and everything will be fine’

Blooming and beautiful — with these words, Liudmyla Halaka describes Borodianka. However, neither the beauty nor the amenities that struck the Russian occupiers prevented them from destroying not only the village but also human lives.

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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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