Russian war crimes

Council of Europe settles details of Russia tribunal

The legal mandate for a special tribunal to prosecute Russian crimes of aggression against Ukraine has been determined and will soon be published, Ukrainian state news agency Ukrinform reported on June 5.

5 June 2025, 11:38 PM

Zelenskyy urges maximum sanctions after Russian drone kills family

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for maximum sanctions against Russia on June 5 following a deadly drone strike on the city of Pryluky in Chernihiv Oblast that killed the family of a Ukrainian firefighter.

5 June 2025, 03:25 PM

Ukraine charges Russian judges with war crimes over POW sentences

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.

4 June 2025, 02:25 PM

Russian drone terror in Kherson amounts to crimes against humanity, UN says

Russia’s drone strike campaign targeting civilians in Kherson Oblast amounts to “murder of civilians as crimes against humanity,” the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine said in a report on May 28.

28 May 2025, 10:33 PM

Elderly civilians wounded in Russian airstrike on Kharkiv region

Russian forces dropped an aerial bomb on a residential apartment building in the town of Kupyansk-Vuzlovyi, Kharkiv Oblast, on May 21, injuring two elderly women, regional police reported.

21 May 2025, 04:32 PM

Russian MP compares Russian political exiles to animals

Russian State Duma lawmaker and one of the original architects of Russia’s war against Ukraine, Alexander Borodai, recently compared a category of Russian citizens to animals—then offered an apology to the animals.

21 May 2025, 02:37 PM

Former Odesa journalist seen fighting for Russia with North Korean artillery

A former Odesa journalist, Alik Vetrov, has been identified in recently circulated battlefield photos, where he is seen posing in front of a North Korean artillery system. The Institute of Mass Information (IMI) reported the discovery on May 20.

21 May 2025, 01:29 PM

Firefighters extinguish blaze in Sumy after Russian drone strike

A large fire in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy was extinguished on May 21 following a Russian drone strike, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service (SES) reported.

21 May 2025, 01:15 PM

Russian drone strike kills woman, injures four in Kharkiv Oblast

A 55-year-old woman was killed and four men—ages 58, 49, 40, and 53—were wounded when a Russian FPV drone struck the city of Kupyansk, Kharkiv Oblast, on May 16, regional governor Oleh Syniehubov reported.

16 May 2025, 02:16 PM

Russian drone strikes kill child, injure civilians in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Russian forces attacked Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk Oblast overnight on April 29 with strike drones, killing a child, regional governor Serhiy Lysak reported.

29 April 2025, 10:26 AM

Russian orders to kill Ukrainians won’t go unpunished - AFU Commander-in-Chief

Every crime committed by Russia will be met with a response, and those who issued criminal orders will be brought to justice, AFU Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi wrote, responding to Russia’s massive combined strike on Ukraine on April 24.

24 April 2025, 02:37 PM

Special tribunal will not try Putin in absentia while he’s in office

The special tribunal that Western nations plan to set up to investigate Russia’s crime of aggression against Ukraine will not try dictator Vladimir Putin in absentia while he remains president of Russia, Euronews reported on April 10.

10 April 2025, 10:33 PM

Russian troops execute wounded Ukrainian soldier in Donetsk Oblast

Russian soldiers from the 144th Guards Motor Rifle Division executed a wounded Ukrainian service member near Katerynivka, Donetsk Oblast, open-source intelligence project DeepState reported on April 8.

8 April 2025, 11:32 PM

OSCE to hold special session at Ukraine’s request after deadly Russian missile strike on Kryvyi Rih

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will hold an emergency session on Tuesday, April 8, in response to Russia’s deadly missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih. The session was requested by Ukraine, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the International Organizations in Vienna Yuri Vitrenko announced.

7 April 2025, 04:25 PM

Zelenskyy names child victims of Kryvyi Rih strike, slams U.S. envoy’s muted response

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on April 5, listed the names of the children killed in Russia’s April 4 ballistic missile strike on Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, and commented on the global reaction to the attack.

5 April 2025, 03:18 PM

Ukraine’s war losses documented by Memorial Platform, public support needed

As Russia’s war against Ukraine rages into its third year, tens of thousands of lives — both military and civilian — have been lost. Behind the growing numbers are names, faces, families, and memories. For the Memorial Platform, an independent Ukrainian NGO, honoring those lives is a mission — and one now under threat.

3 April 2025, 03:23 PM

Inside Bucha: Ukraine hunts the killers behind Russia’s war crimes

More than 2,500 Russian soldiers suspected of involvement in the killings of civilians in Bucha in 2022 had been identified by Ukraine’s National Police as of March 2025, according to an NV investigation. Of those, 34 have been formally notified of suspicion. Investigators are continuing to build cases against seven individuals over the murders of 24 people. Prosecutors have sent indictments to court against 17 suspects in the killings of 12 civilians, and one accused war criminal is currently on trial in person. That level of progress took years of painstaking work.

31 March 2025, 01:44 PM

Zelenskyy: Russia has destroyed all hotels in Kryvyi Rih

Russian forces have destroyed all hotels in Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on March 12, according to Interfax-Ukraine.

12 March 2025, 07:08 PM

Amnesty International documents 109 executions of Ukrainian POWs in 2024

Human rights watchdog Amnesty International has documented 109 executions of Ukrainian prisoners-of-war in 2024, Ukrainian state news agency Ukrinform reported on March 4.

4 March 2025, 11:41 PM

FT investigation finds executions of Ukrainian POWs indicative of Russian policy

The execution of Ukrainian prisoners of war by Russian forces is not an isolated incident but likely part of a broader scheme indicating systematic policy, according to an investigation by the Financial Times released on Feb. 20.

20 February 2025, 02:46 PM

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