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IWPR’s weekly Ukraine Justice Report provides an overview of key events and links to essential reading from Ukrainian and international reports alongside dedicated IWPR reporting and analysis.
![Items are seen inside a cell at a preliminary detention centre which is believed to have been used by Russian forces to jail and torture civilians on November 16, 2022 in Kherson, Ukraine.](https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/spai/q_glossy+ret_img/https://iwpr.net/sites/default/files/styles/focus_main_image_932_x_580_/public/images/story/GettyImages-1442003196.jpg?h=47d1104d)
UKRAINE WAR DIARY BY A. BORDEN
Justice Under Fire in Kherson
Despite huge obstacles, the regional war crimes unit is steadily assembling its cases for torture and shelling.
![An aerial view of artillery craters scarring the landscape next to a destroyed house on October 24, 2022 in Sulyhivka, Kharkiv oblast, Ukraine.](https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/spai/q_glossy+ret_img/https://iwpr.net/sites/default/files/styles/grid_large_932_/public/images/story/GettyImages-1244200268.jpg)
INTERVIEW
Environmental Damage as a War Crime
Despite widespread destruction, prosecuting Russia will come with many challenges.
![In many liberated Ukrainian villages police have discovered buildings that appear to have been used by Russian soldiers as prisons and suspected torture chambers.](https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/spai/q_glossy+ret_img/https://iwpr.net/sites/default/files/styles/grid_large_932_/public/images/story/GettyImages-1243503273.jpg)
COURT REPORT
Torture in the Chernihiv Region
Case brought over brutal detention and abuse of local man randomly shot at and imprisoned.
UKRAINE JUSTICE BRIEFING
Tuesday, 21 February ‘23
This week’s overview of key events and links to essential reading.
• Colonel General Notified of Suspicion
• Two Russian Soldiers to be Tried in Absentia
• Suspicion Issued to Belarusian Wagner Group Mercenary
• Russian Militia Leader to be Tried in Absentia for Crimes in Crimea
• Deputy Head of the Occupation Administration in Kharkiv Region Suspected of War Crimes
Ukraine Justice Report
More from IWPR's Ukraine coverage
![Rescue workers and forensic police exhume bodies from unidentified makeshift graves at the Pishanske cemetery on September 21, 2022 in Izium, Ukraine. The bodies will be examined by forensic officials for possible war crimes.](https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/spai/q_glossy+ret_img/https://iwpr.net/sites/default/files/styles/grid_large_932_/public/images/story/GettyImages-1243410844_0.jpg)
PROJECT HIGHLIGHT
The Reckoning Project: Ukraine Testifies
Project aims to help conflict journalists meet evidential standards that will allow their work to support future justice processes.
UKRAINE WAR DIARY BY A. BORDEN