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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.
![Police record human remains as forensic experts and war crimes prosecution teams exhume a burial site containing the bodies of six civilians that were executed by Russian forces in the yard of a house in the town of Pravdyne on the outskirts of Kherson on November 28, 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-1445249295.jpg?h=56425f8d)
INTERVIEW
Torture, Sexual Violence, Murder: Investigating War Crimes in Kherson
One year after its de-occupation, investigators continue to record thousands of war crime cases amid continuous shelling.
![On November 2, the Borodyan District Court, in Kyiv region, started the hearing of the case against Russian corporal Radik Hukasyan accused of group shooting a civilian car, killing the driver, and looting a house in Borodyanka in March 2022. The accused joined the hearing via video link from Kyiv's pre-detention centre where he's been detained for over a year.](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-Borodyan-District-Court-I-Domashchenko.jpg?h=1a139968)
COURTSIDE
Russian Corporal Feared Backlash for Him and His Family in Russia
The defendant pleaded guilty to offences allegedly committed during the occupation of Borodyanka in March 2022.
UKRAINE WAR DIARY BY A. BORDEN
Kupiansk: Fireworks in the Rain
Eastern town sees a third wave of departures, as even the most stalwart residents see little future there.
UKRAINE JUSTICE BRIEFING
Tuesday, 14 November ‘23
This week’s overview of key events and links to essential reading.
• Suspicion Issued to Russian Orthodox Church’s Patriarch Kirill
• Acting Regional Governor of Occupied Kherson Sentenced in Absentia
• Russian Commander Sentenced to 12 Years for Ordering Forceful Dispersal of Rally
• Nearly a Quarter of Ukrainian Courts not Operational due to War
• Armenia Joins the International Criminal Court, Angering Moscow
Ukraine Justice Report