military judges

After three and a half years of full-scale war, 20% of Ukrainian territory remains under Russian occupation. As part of its efforts to consolidate the imperial occupation of Ukraine’s Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhya, and Kherson oblasts, Moscow dispatched scores of judges to weaponize law itself. NV presents an investigation into this corps of transplant judges.

Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) has collected evidence and officially charged two Russian military judges in absentia with war crimes for sentencing two captured Ukrainian soldiers to 18 years in a maximum-security penal colony.