war crimes

Arrest warrants have been issued for war crimes by judges at the International Criminal Court for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Commissioner for Children's Rights. In a statement, the ICC says they are suspected of the war crime of...

A video has emerged online which appears to show the execution of an unarmed Ukrainian soldier who was taken as a prisoner of war (POW) by Russian forces. The video shows the serviceman smoking a cigarette before being gunned down...

Russian police have arrested thousands of anti-war protesters after President Vladimir Putin’s partial draft of reserve forces. Armed forces detained over 1,300 Russian civilians in almost thirty-nine cities. The Russian human rights group OVD confirmed over five hundred in...

Russian soldier Vadim Syshimarin was sentenced to life in prison in Ukraine on Monday in the country's first war crime trial since Russian troops invaded the country three months ago. Syshimarin, 21, was found guilty of killing a 62-year-old, unarmed...

James Stavridis, the former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, said that Russia's “amazing incompetence” in Ukraine has resulted in a loss of generals and other top officers that is unprecedented in modern history. In an interview that aired Sunday with...

On Tuesday, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky showed the UN Security Council a harrowing video from Ukraine in an apparent attempt to embarrass Russia and rally international sympathy and support. The clip lasted about a minute and showed image after image...

Joe Biden called for Vladimir Putin to be tried for war crimes on Monday following the killings of civilians in the city of Bucha, Ukraine. Biden said the images coming from Bucha warranted calling Putin a "war criminal," adding, "but...

Russia has been accused of war crimes in Ukraine including the indiscriminate killing of civilians in the town of Bucha, northwest of Kyiv following its withdrawal from the area. Shocking images released by AFP on Saturday reveal a massacre of...

A Greek official, who was the last remaining western diplomat in Mariupol, Ukraine, described harrowing scenes that may constitute war crimes after he was finally evacuated from the city. Manolis Androulakis, Greece's Consul General, who spoke to journalist Kostas Onisenko...

A German museum has created a new exhibition to highlight the atrocities carried out by the Nazi occupation forces in Greece, which its organizers say are largely overlooked or unknown in Germany. The outdoor exhibit, entitled "German Crimes in Greece"...