EXPLAINER: How are war crimes in Ukraine being investigated?

THE HAGUE — The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday is just one strand in a complex web of international and national legal moves over alleged war crimes in Ukraine.
More than 74,500 such atrocities have been reported in Ukraine since Russia invaded, according to the prosecutor general’s office in Kyiv. Bringing those to trial is no simple task.

Ukrainian andWestern authoritiessay there is evidence of murders and executions,shellingof civilian infrastructure, forced deportations,child abductions,torture,sexual violence, and illegal detention.

But Russia has repeatedly denied that its forces have committed atroc…

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