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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.
Defending the Enemy
Russian militaries receive legal assistance in Ukraine. It is guaranteed by the state and provided at the expense of the state budget.
UKRAINE JUSTICE BRIEFING
Tuesday, 18 April ‘23
This week’s overview of key events and links to essential reading.
• Investigation into Murder of Ukrainian POW
• 15 Russians to be Tried for Using 368 Civilians as Human Shields
• Three Rape Suspects Identified
• Russian Lieutenant General to be Tried for Leading Azovstal Attack
• Court of Appeal Confirms Verdict of 12 Years for Three Russian Soldiers
• Military Commander of Melitopol’s Occupation Administration to be Tried
![Russian paratrooper Andrey Medvedev sits in a glass and metal booth in the court in Irpin on April 10, 2023. The preliminary hearing against the 33-year-old, who is standing trial for violence against civilians, failed due to the absence of a defence lawyer.](https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/spai/q_glossy+ret_img/https://iwpr.net/sites/default/files/styles/grid_large_932_/public/images/story/ukraine-Andrey-Medvedev-I-Domashchenko.jpg)
COURT REPORT
Captured Russian Paratrooper to be Tried for Irpin War Crimes
Case concerning the alleged abuse of civilians delayed after defence attorney said it fell outside his jurisdiction.
![Two members of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' J9 group put the body of a fallen Russian soldier in a black sac near Hrushivka, a village in Kharkiv region. The J9 group is specifically tasked with searching and recovering the bodies of fallen servicemen.](https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/spai/q_glossy+ret_img/https://iwpr.net/sites/default/files/styles/grid_large_932_/public/images/story/ukraine-body-recovery-Ihor-Tambiiev.jpg)
The Ukrainian Unit Recovering Bodies of Fallen Soldiers
The J9 group is tasked with searching for the bodies of servicemen, including Russians.
Ukraine Justice Report
More from IWPR's Ukraine coverage
![Journalists at work in Kyiv's central station.](https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/spai/q_glossy+ret_img/https://iwpr.net/sites/default/files/styles/grid_large_932_/public/images/story/GettyImages-1238875300.jpg)
Women Journalists Face Routine Sexual Harassment
Over half of female media workers have been affected, but few dare to speak up.
![Graffiti of a child throwing a man over on the floor is seen on a wall amid damaged buildings in Borodyanka on November 09, 2022 in Kyiv Region, Ukraine. Borodyanka was hit particularly hard by Russian airstrikes in the first few weeks of the conflict.](https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/spai/q_glossy+ret_img/https://iwpr.net/sites/default/files/styles/focus_main_image_932_x_580_/public/images/components/GettyImages-1244646562.jpg?h=34f4e32d)
![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.