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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Mélissa Cornet

‘Law is the only weapon I have’: a Ukrainian lawyer’s campaign to rescue the children stolen by Russia

A young woman poses on a balcony overlooking a European city square
‘Ukrainians think there’s no international justice,’ says the human rights lawyer Kateryna Rashevska, after Mongolia and Tajikistan ignored their obligations to arrest Vladimir Putin as members of the international criminal court. Photograph: Emile Ducke/The Guardian

At only 28, the human rights lawyer Kateryna Rashevska has become the public face of Ukraine’s campaign to repatriate children forcibly deported to Russia. She knows this means she is being watched.

The past two years have seen the Ukrainian addressing the UN security council, the US Senate and writing submissions to the international criminal court (ICC), which then issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin for the “unlawful deportation” of Ukrainian children.

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