Human rights lawyers working with Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office are preparing a war crimes dossier to submit to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Russia is to be accused of deliberately causing starvation during the full-scale […]
25.09.2023 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Ukrainian side began to present its oral arguments at the UN International Court of Justice in The Hague, where public hearings began the day before regarding the preliminary objections raised by the Russian Federation […]
19.09.2023 • Bohdan Marusyak
Ukraine plans WTO action against Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia over their refusal to drop a ban on the import of Ukrainian agricultural products. “It is important to prove that these actions are legally wrong. And […]
18.09.2023 • Bohdan Marusyak
The field office of the International Criminal Court (ICC) – the largest representation of this body outside The Hague – has started to work in the capital of Ukraine. This was announced by Prosecutor General […]
15.09.2023 • Bohdan Marusyak
The European Parliament adopted a resolution condemning the participation of the Lukashenka regime in Russia's unjustified, illegal and unprovoked war of aggression against Ukraine. “The European Parliament condemns [Lukashenka] regime’s massive provision of ammunition and […]
14.09.2023 • Natalia Tolub
The Russian Federation has built an extensive system of torture and ill-treatment of captured Ukrainians, both service members and civilians. According to recent estimates, about 90% of Ukrainian prisoners of war were subjected to torture, […]
08.09.2023 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Main Department of Military Justice of the Ministry of Defence is participating in the development of the draft law on the military police of Ukraine. The document is being drafted on the basis of […]
21.08.2023 • Bohdan Marusyak
The location of 35 detention centres, which were set up by the Russian occupiers for the Ukrainian population, has been confirmed in the liberated territory of the Kherson region. Reuters reports this with reference to […]
03.08.2023 • Bohdan Marusyak
The prosecutor's office, together with the Security Service of Ukraine and the National Police, identified hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers who are in Ukraine. The involvement of these people in war crimes is currently […]
02.08.2023 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Russian invaders took more than 3,000 Ukrainian children from the occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions to Belarus under the guise of "recreation." Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN Sergiy Kyslytsya […]
27.07.2023 • Bohdan Marusyak
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) published the decision in the case "Russia v. Ukraine," in which it strikes out the application filed by Moscow against Kyiv. “In its decision today, the European Court […]
18.07.2023 • Bohdan Marusyak
Ukraine is actively cooperating with the International Criminal Court to hold Russian criminals to account and also calling on all 123 ICC member states to comply with the demand for the arrest of President of […]
18.07.2023 • Natalia Tolub
Ukraine began to enter data on accomplices of the Russian occupiers into the international base of Interpol. Persons who committed treason may be returned to the territory of Ukraine and subject to prosecution in accordance […]
15.07.2023 • Bohdan Marusyak
On Monday, 3 July, the International Centre for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine started its operations in The Hague, hosted by the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation (Eurojust). “It […]
03.07.2023 • Bohdan Marusyak
Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has initiated pretrial investigations into almost 92,000 criminal proceedings related to the military aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. Of these, […]
23.06.2023 • Natalia Tolub
The European Parliament has adopted a resolution on the torture and prosecution of two Ukrainian teenagers from occupied Berdiansk. The resolution was adopted with 425 votes in favour, three against, and 15 abstentions. MEPs demand […]
16.06.2023 • Natalia Tolub
Hearings within the consideration of the merits of Ukraine's lawsuit against the Russian Federation regarding violations of two UN conventions, which Ukraine filed in 2017, have begun at the UN International Court of Justice. The […]
06.06.2023 • Bohdan Marusyak
On 24 May 2023, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation charged two teenagers, Tihran Ohannisian and Mykyta Khanhanov, both born in 2006, with allegedly preparing sabotage on the railway in the temporarily occupied town […]
26.05.2023 • Natalia Tolub
The adoption by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe of the resolution recognising the deportation of the Ukrainian children by Russia as genocide is an important step towards holding the Russian Federation and […]
28.04.2023 • Bohdan Marusyak
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine reacted to the first verdict of the Iranian judiciary in the case of the downed Boeing of Ukraine International Airlines (Flight PS752) over Tehran in January 2020. Diplomats […]
19.04.2023 • Natalia Tolub