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Dutch military police to help Ukraine investigate war crimes - ANP

The Dutch government is likely to send a forensic team from the national military police to Ukraine to help investigate possible war crimes, Dutch press agency ANP reported on Thursday.

Reuters

Ten Russian soldiers wanted for Bucha massacre war crimes pictured by Ukraine

Ten members of the 64th Motorised Infantry Brigade, who are said to have "Ukrainian blood on their hands" for the horrifying Bucha massacre, have been pictured by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence

Daily Mirror

UN chief Guterres condemns 'absurdity' of war during Ukraine visit

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday visited sites of alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine, decrying war as "an absurdity in the 21st century" and urging Russia to cooperate with an international investigation into suspected atrocities.

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Amal Clooney pushes UN to focus on international justice for war crimes: ‘Ukraine is a slaughterhouse’

‘Ukraine is, today, a slaughterhouse. Right in the heart of Europe’

The Independent UK

Global Pledges of Justice for Ukraine War Crime Victims

Several countries and organizations, including the UN, pledged on Wednesday to bring to justice any perpetrators of war crimes committed during Russia's invasion of Ukraine. They were urged on by the Lebanese-British barrister Amal Clooney, who said she feared "politicians calling for justice but not delivering it," AFP reported. "My…

Asharq Al-Awsat

At U.N., Amal Clooney pushes for Ukraine war crimes justice

Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney urged countries at the United Nations on Wednesday to focus on international justice for war crimes in Ukraine so evidence does not sit in storage - as it has done for victims of Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq and Syria.

Reuters

Canada lawmakers vote unanimously to label Russia's acts in Ukraine as 'genocide'

Canadian lawmakers voted unanimously on Wednesday to call Russia's attacks in Ukraine a "genocide", with members of parliament saying there was "ample evidence of systemic and massive war crimes against humanity" being committed by Moscow.

Reuters

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Sarajevo court charges Bosniak ex-leaders with war crimes

Ten people have been charged for their alleged role in the killing of retreating Yugoslav army soldiers in 1992.

Al Jazeera

French priest and Holocaust researcher gathers accounts of atrocities in Ukraine

A Roman Catholic priest has begun documenting the stories of those whose lives have been devastated by the war in Ukraine. Father Patrick Desbois is a former head of the Church's Commission for Relations with Judaism and spent years documenting the murder of 1.5 million Jews by the Nazis in…

France 24

Former SAS soldier who gave evidence in Ben Roberts-Smith trial charged with obstructing and causing harm to war crimes investigators

The former elite soldier, who previously gave evidence in the Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial, has appeared in court, charged with obstructing and intimidating one Commonwealth official and harming another.

ABC News

CAR war crimes trial postponed for second time

Al Jazeera

Hundreds of seafarers are still stranded in Ukraine waters – the legal rights of this profession are barely up to standard

While the world’s eyes have been on civilian casualties, forced displacement and potential war crimes on Ukrainian land, the plight of hundreds of seafarers trapped in commercial ships for the past several months has gone mostly unnoticed. They have been stranded in the main Ukrainian ports of Mariupol, Kherson and…

The Conversation

Ukraine prepares war crimes charges against Russian military personnel, including pilots

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Reuters

Russia compared to Isis after ‘demanding money from captured soldier’s family’ in ransom video

The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor is set to join an EU investigations team probing possible war crimes in Ukraine

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Vladimir Putin getting exact opposite of his aims in Ukraine, former NATO commander Philip Breedlove says — as it happened

The retired US general who led NATO in Europe from 2013 to 2016 says Vladimir Putin's aims in Ukraine are "weapons out, NATO back, and no America" — but the Russian President is getting exactly the opposite.

The Independent UK

Ukraine war crimes probe widens as UK says 15,000 Russian troops dead

Conflict shows no sign of abating as it enters a third month while scrutiny grows over Russian atrocities

Reuters

International Criminal Court joins team probing alleged war crimes in Ukraine

The International Criminal Court (ICC) will take part in the joint team investigating allegations of war crimes in Ukraine following the Russian invasion, the European Union's agency for criminal justice cooperation said on Monday.

Wales Online

Russian soldiers have permission to use rape as a weapon, says war crime lawyer

Reports of rape adds to a growing body of evidence of war crimes in Ukraine

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The Independent UK

Russian troops have ‘tacit permission’ to use rape as a weapon, says lawyer

A growing body of evidence is being gathered in the hopes of prosecuting Russian war crimes in Ukraine.

The Guardian - AU

Australian government misses compensation deadline for victims of alleged war crimes

Brereton report recommended swift payments to victims as ‘the morally right thing to do’ instead of waiting for court rulings

Reuters

Berlin institute taps World War Two experience to document Ukraine war crimes

Berlin's Pilecki Institute, which is dedicated to researching 20th century history including Nazi crimes in World War Two, is tapping that experience to collect testimonies from refugees about possible war crimes in Ukraine.

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN Rights Office Cites Growing Evidence of War Crimes in Ukraine

The United Nations human rights office sounded the alarm on Friday about growing evidence of war crimes in Ukraine, urging both Moscow and Kyiv to order combatants to respect international law. "Russian armed forces have indiscriminately shelled and bombed populated areas, killing civilians and wrecking hospitals, schools and other civilian…

Reuters

U.N. rights office cites growing evidence of war crimes in Ukraine

The United Nations human rights office said on Friday there was growing evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine, including signs of indiscriminate shelling and summary executions, while it said Ukraine also appeared to have used weapons with indiscriminate effects.

Reuters

UK police say examining about 50 allegations of Ukraine war crimes

British police said on Friday they were gathering evidence after receiving about 50 reports of alleged war crimes following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Wales Online

'Incredibly harrowing' Ukraine evidence handed to British police

Metropolitan Police's War Crimes Team said it had already received around 50 referrals

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