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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Daniel Boffey in Kyiv and Pjotr Sauer

Ukraine prosecutors ready to launch first war crimes trials of Russia conflict

The prosecutor general of Ukraine, Iryna Venediktova speaks with the German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock
The prosecutor general of Ukraine, Iryna Venediktova speaks with the German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock Photograph: Efrem Lukatsky/AP

Three Russian prisoners of war accused of targeting or murdering civilians, and a soldier who allegedly killed a man before raping his wife, are set to be in the dock in the first war crimes trials of the Ukraine conflict, the Ukrainian prosecutor general has revealed.

More than 10,700 crimes have been registered since the war began by the office of Ukraine’s prosecutor general, led by Iryna Venediktova, and a handful of cases have now been filed or are ready to be submitted in what marks a watershed moment two months into the war.

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