The Russian-Ukrainian Conflict and War Crimes

This book offers a multidisciplinary examination of the international crimes committed in the Russia-Ukraine War, and the challenges of their prosecution and documentation.

Patrycja Grzebyk is Associate Professor at the University of Warsaw and a specialist in public international law. She is the author of Criminal Responsibility for the Crime of Aggression (2013) and Human and Non-Human Targets in Armed Conflicts (2022). Dominika Uczkiewicz is a lawyer, historian, and Assistant Professor at the Centre for Totalitarian Studies at the Pilecki Institute in Warsaw. Her recent publications include Polish and German Perspectives on Transitional Justice: World War Two and its Aftermath (2021; co-edited with Wolfgang Form).

Introduction: The Rocky Road to Justice: Efforts to Document and Prosecute Crimes in Ukraine from a Historical and Legal Perspective Part 1: The Soviet Legacy and Ruskii Mir 1. War Crimes in Russia's Invasion of Ukraine:The Soviet Legacy and the Wellsprings of Moscow's Disregard of International Humanitarian Law 2. Historical Soviet and Contemporary Russian Criminal Acts Against Ukrainians Under the UN Genocide Convention of 1948: A Comparative Analysis 3. The Crime of Genocide: Historical Aspects, Political Discussions and Memory Laws in Ukraine 4. In the Span of a Hybrid War: Engaging Post-Truth in Shadowing Russian War Crimes 5. A Nuremberg for Communism?: Unified Germany, International Law, and the Idea of a Tribunal for Stalinist/Soviet Crime 6. Putin's Youth and the TikTok War: Creating the Militarized Self in Russian Adolescents Part 2: Crimes in the Ukraine War and Their Documentation 7. Russia's War Crimes in Ukraine as a Tool of War 8. Digital Evidence in Investigations Concerning Russian Crimes in Ukraine 9. Ethical and Methodological Challenges of Documenting the War: Recording Testimonies of Ukrainian Witnesses After February 24, 2022 10. The Center for Civil Liberties: Chronicler of Crimes Committed After Russia's Invasion of Ukraine 11. Witnesses to the War: The Raphael Lemkin Center for Documenting Russian Crimes in Ukraine as a Case Study 12. Precedents for Ukraine: Experiences of the UNWCC of Documenting War Crimes Part 3: Prosecution of Crimes Committed in the War in Ukraine 13. Ensuring Fairness of War Crimes Trials in Ukraine 14. Prosecuting International Crimes in Ukraine: The Role of Ukrainian Domestic Courts 15. Polish Involvement in Prosecuting International Crimes Committed in Ukraine 16. Prosecuting War Crimes in Ukraine: The German Contribution 17. The Ukrainian Struggle for Internationalization of the Problem of Punishment of the Crime of Aggression 18. Accountability for Russian Imperialism in the Global East: The Special Tribunal for Aggression from a Post-Colonial Eastern European Perspective 19. Ukraine and the Investigation of Systemic War Crimes: Learning from the UK's Investigative Failures in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars