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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.
![An elderly man walks by an apartment block that was destroyed by a Russian missile attack earlier in the month, on October 28, 2022 in Zaporizhzhia, 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-1244292203_0.jpg?h=ae36b2e8)
COURTSIDE
Torture in Vasylivka
Local men were subjected to electric shocks, beatings and mock executions during interrogation.
![The Ukrainian Ministry of Justice building in Kiev, 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-1178536679.jpg?h=07d0d9a0)
Calls for Changes to Criminal Code
Current body of law cannot cope with the scope or scale of offences being committed.
UKRAINE JUSTICE BRIEFING
Tuesday, 23 January ‘24
This week’s overview of key events and links to essential reading.
• Employee of Russia’s Security Service Issued Suspicion
• Two Russian Soldiers Accused of Rape in Zaporizhzhia Region
• Russian Captain Sentenced to Life imprisonment for Murder
![Ukrainians have dug trenches along the crescent-shaped 1,000km-long front. The ditches are surrounding with barbed wire; sandbags and wooden planks are positioned along the muddy walls.](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-Unforgiving-Winter-2-O-Arkhanhorodsky.jpg?h=41f55a5b)
PHOTO ESSAY
Along the Frontline in Ukraine’s Unforgiving Winter
Fighting continues, but the gruelling cold takes a toll on soldiers in the trenches and civilians in destroyed villages.
Ukraine Justice Report