IWPR's Frontline Updates – unique insights from our network of local reporters and updates from our programmes.
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.
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COURT REPORT
First Appeal Over in Absentia Trial
Defence lawyer contests circumstances surrounding identification of military man convicted of war crimes.
UKRAINE JUSTICE BRIEFING
Tuesday, 11 April ‘23
This week’s overview of key events and links to essential reading.
• Russian Soldier Suspected of Murdering Medical Staff in Izyum
• Indictment Over Mock Execution in Irpin
• Russian Soldier Suspected of Murder
• Russian General to be Tried in Absentia
• Three Convicted Russian Soldiers Exchanged
• Preparatory Review of the Indictment of Exchanged Russian Pilot Begins
![A police officer passes under a cordon at a school that was hit by a Russian missile in an overnight attack on Mykolaiv, 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-1244403312.jpg?h=804d0c2f)
Justice in Absentia
Process seen as problematic in many jurisdictions, given the difficulties in allowing defendant their full rights.
Ukraine Justice Report
More from IWPR's Ukraine coverage
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![Oleksandr Kamyshin is head of Ukraine’s rail state company.](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/ukraine-Oleksandr-Kamyshin-5-O-Kamyshin.jpg?h=3c8b1397)
![Like any other Ukrainian, the last 12 months have presented Sevgil Musaieva, Ukrainska Pravda’s editor-in-chief, with innumerable challenges: from her team’s safety and security to the outlet’s financial support to how to operate amid power outages caused by Russian shelling.](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/ukraine-Sevgil-Musaieva-1-S-Musaieva.jpg?h=ada05aa9)
![Iryna Kondratova is head of the Kharkiv Regional Perinatal Centre.](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/ukraine-Iryna-Kondratova-4-I-Kondratova.jpg?h=79ff3f41)
![Serhiy Prytula is a former TV presenter, actor and politician who has been fundraising since 2014 in the wake of the Kremlin’s annexation of Crimea.](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/ukraine-Serhiy-Prytula-1-S-Prytula.jpg?h=68152718)
![Ulyana Moroz, Lviv Puppet Theatre director.](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/ukraine-Ulyana-Moroz-puppets-Lviv-Puppet-Theatre.jpg?h=40be463c)
![A celebrated Ukrainian medic Yuliia Paevska, code name Taira, rose to fame on March 15, 2022 when she managed to smuggle out of Mariupol footage of the southern city under Russian siege. She was by Russian forces the day after and spent 94 days as a prisoner of war. She developed a course on tactical medicine and organised a unit of volunteers, called later the Angels of Taira, which has evacuated hundreds of wounded servicemen and civilians. © Courtesy of Y. Paevska.](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/ukraine-Yuliia-Paevska-2-Y-Paevska.jpg?h=89029dda)
![Olena Khromova and her husband Oleh opened the café Protagoniste in 2019 and planned to create a space to bring Kharkiv’s creative youth together.](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/ukraine-Olena-Khromova-2-O-Khromova.jpg?h=3d0b1627)
Ukraine: One Year On
IWPR looks at the impact of the full-scale invasion on ordinary Ukrainians.
Since February 24, 2022 Ukraine has withstood bombing, siege and unbearable atrocities. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has brought the worst destruction Europe has seen since WWII.
But the Russian missiles have not shattered Ukrainians’ resilience.