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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ryan Hooper

Ukraine evidence handed to Met War Crimes police ‘some of worst ever seen’

PA Media

Counter-terror police gathering evidence of potential war crimes in Ukraine say they have been struck by the “incredibly harrowing” material and eyewitness accounts from the frontline of the conflict.

The Metropolitan Police’s War Crimes Team, which is a unit within its counter-terrorism command (CTC), said it had already received around 50 referrals from people with a link to the UK, including those who have directly fled the conflict in the last two months since Russia began invading.

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