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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Julian Borger in Washington

‘Leave no stone unturned’: how investigators gather evidence of war crimes in Ukraine

poster of Vladimir Putin with a red handprint on his face
Some experts predict the worst, most obvious, war crimes are likely to come if Russian forces manage to subdue and occupy Ukrainian cities. Photograph: Ringo Chiu/AFP/Getty Images

Ukrainians fleeing the scenes of destruction and carnage in Ukraine are already being interviewed by investigators in anticipation of a future war crimes trial of Vladimir Putin, along with his top officials and generals.

With well over a million refugees crossing the border, there is an abundance of eyewitness testimony, while the flow of video footage through social media has provided an unprecedented amount of evidence which is being subjected to forensic analysis.

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