During the invasion, the Russian military has been accused of deliberately targeting civilians, such as attacks on hospitals and the power grids, the abduction (particularly children) and torture of civilians, as well as forced deportations of civilians and the torture and murder of Ukrainian prisoners of war

In Kyivs surrounding areas, civilians described apparent war crimes committed by Russian forces, including accounts ofsummary executions,torture, andrape

Based on monitoring as well as quantitative and qualitative analysis of hundreds of court sessions, the following issues will be addressedThe denial of the right to a fair trial in the occupied territories an overview of the cases, procedural violations and sentencesTrials as a tool of Russias policy of persecution targeting ethnic Ukrainians and Crimean TatarsNational investigation and prosecution of the denial of the right to a fair trial as a war crime under Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine status update, evidentiary challenges and the profile of perpetrators (judges, prosecutors, investigators and state officials)Prospect for investigating and prosecuting the denial of the right to a fair trial as a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions (war crime) and the crime of persecution (crime against humanity) in the ICC jurisdictional issues in connection with the transfer of Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war for trial on the territory of the Russian Federation due to the transboundary nature of the crime

Russian Attacks Target Ukrainian Prison, Medical FacilitiesJuly 29, 2025An overnight Russian attack using glide bombs and ballistic missiles targeted a Ukrainian prison in Zaporizhzhia, killing at least sixteen inmates and wounding over ninety separate attacks at a maternal hospital and a city hospital ward in Dnipro and other areas nationwide brought the overall death toll to at least twenty-nine(AP)

Russia continued its drone and missile barrages on civilian targets a Russian glide bomb struck a medical facility in Kharkiv, killing one person and injuring seventeen(Kyiv Independent)

As a result, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has begun investigating war crimes, including the abduction of Ukrainian children and genocide against Ukrainians

Under the guise of providing humanitarian help to rescue children from the war zone, the abductions mark a brazen attack on Ukraines future generation by aiming to erase their Ukrainian identity

The two are accused of the war crimes of directing attacks at civilian objects and of causing excessive incidental harm to civilians or damage to civilian objects, and are also accused of crimes against humanity

Hundreds of residents of the three towns were found to have been tortured, raped, and executed by the Russian army

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