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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Stephanie van den Berg and Anthony Deutsch

Explainer-How are war crimes in Ukraine being investigated?

FILE PHOTO: Volunteers lower into a grave a coffin with one of fifteen unidentified people killed by Russian troops, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, during a burial ceremony in the town of Bucha, in Kyiv region, Ukraine September 2, 2022. REUTERS/Vladyslav Musiienko/File Photo

The International Criminal Court's arrest warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday is just one strand in a complex web of international and national legal moves over alleged war crimes in Ukraine.

More than 74,500 such atrocities have been reported in Ukraine since Russia invaded, according to the prosecutor general's office in Kyiv. Bringing those to trial is no simple task.

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