Ukraine seeks to do something the world has never done: try a country’s leaders for aggression they are in the midst of committing.
“A lot of politicians still look at the world through the prism of the Nuremberg Trials, where Nazi officials were tried but after the Nazi regime had collapsed, and the narrative is, ‘Let’s wait until the end of the war’,” said Oleksandra Matviichuk, director of Ukraine’s Center for Civil Liberties, which won the Nobel Peace Prize last year.
