Articles

28 July 2024

Ukrainian children as a human resource for Russia’s future war

Ukrainian teenagers in the Russia-occupied territories are already being served military draft notices for 2025. Moreover, children are being taken to the Russian army right out of “health camps.”
26 June 2024

Crimean students’ grades lowered for not writing ‘thank you letters’ to Russian soldiers

Russia has been forcing children and their teachers to produce letters to the soldiers committing war crimes since soon after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
01 June 2024

Russian drones damaged more than 2 thousand residential buildings in Ukraine

Front-line Regions suffer the most from UAV attacks.
31 May 2024

Bodily injury as a war crime against Ukrainians

Formally, it’s not torture, but the consequences are even worse.
30 May 2024

Executions without warning and according to hit lists

Patterns of deliberate murders in the Kyiv Region.
28 May 2024

What are crimes against humanity?

The (un)forgotten term of the 20th century is once again becoming associated with Ukraine.
20 May 2024

Every tenth school in Ukraine suffered from the war

As of mid-April, the T4P (Tribunal for Putin) Initiative database documented 2,204 probable war crimes against scientific and educational institutions.
01 May 2024

‘I am guilty of loving Ukraine!’

In the Russian Federation, a mother of two children from Melitopol was given 9 years in prison.
24 April 2024

On land and sea: Planting mines in Ukraine

We recorded 156 civilian deaths and 279 injuries due to mines.
21 April 2024

Strategic threat in the Strategic Plan

The Strategic Plan for implementing the powers of the prosecutor's Office in criminal prosecution for committing international crimes for 2023-2025 was approved.
18 April 2024

Forced disappearances in the Kharkiv Region: analytical review

In the period from 24 February 2022 to 31 March 2023, we recorded 1,874 cases of disappearances in the Kharkiv Region. A total of 2,025 people were missing.
14 April 2024

Speech at the opening of the Fourth Readings in memory of Arseniy Roginsky

It is necessary to create an International Tribunal with a special charter for the legal qualification of crimes of the communist regime of the USSR and post-communist Russia.
07 April 2024

Eight torture chambers in 21 months — the geography of captivity

‘…They kept telling us: we are changing you, we are going for an exchange. . . I moved from place to place eight times, thinking I was going on an exchange. Instead, they brought me to a new ‘reception’. . . As soon as we were unloaded from the police wagon, they started beating us’.
31 March 2024

Torturing the priests and destroying the churches

Below just some of the hundreds of Russian crimes against churches during the war in Ukraine are described.
28 March 2024

The Russians kidnapped two brothers from Enerhodar who worked at Zaporizhzhia NPP

Liudmyla Vasylivna is waiting for two relatives to return from Russian captivity: in September 2022, in Enerhodar, the Russians took her twin brothers, Serhii ta Oleksandr Korzh.
20 March 2024

Inaction as a path to impunity

For ten years, not a single court has considered this question: were the crimes against participants in the Revolution of Dignity crimes against humanity?
15 March 2024

He believed in Russia today, the place of a decent person is only in prison

Reminiscences about Oleh Orlov.
06 March 2024

Absence of law and international control

What happens to Ukrainian civilians in Russian captivity.
01 March 2024

Russia-Ukraine war: what does filtration mean?

A description is provided of the filtering procedures for Ukrainians forcibly deported to Russia.
25 February 2024

Civilians in captivity: In Oskil the invaders abducted a disabled man because of his diving suit

“Hello, my darlings. Hugs and kisses to you all. I’m alive and well and shall be back soon”. Tetiana received that short message from her husband in May 2023. She had not seen him since 19 June the previous year.
12 February 2024

The first trial in the USA about war-crimes in Ukraine

Aspects of the case of war-crimes against a US citizen committed in the Kherson Region.
08 February 2024

The Butchers of Vovchansk: Suspects named

They abducted the woman, fired a gun next to her ear, and beat her until she lost consciousness. Her tormentors have been named: a Russian citizen and someone from Luhansk are suspected of violating the laws and customs of war.
07 February 2024

Our people are at home: 207 Ukrainians were returned from captivity

On January 31, more than two hundred soldiers and civilians were returned from Russian captivity.
19 January 2024

Can History repeat itself?

In December 1943 four men were sentenced to death in Kharkiv. They were found guilty of committing war crimes in the Kharkiv Region during the German occupation. Should parallels be drawn between contemporary investigations of war crimes and those hearings?