War Crimes, Tribunals, and Reparations: A Conversation with Ukraine’s Prosecutor General
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🗓️ 2 October 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Russia’s war against Ukraine is the most documented conflict in history. In every part of Ukraine from which Russian forces have retreated, Ukrainian officials and civil society groups have found shocking evidence of mass atrocities and war crimes: torture, rape, summary executions, forced disappearances, looting, and the destruction of Ukrainian cultural heritage sites. The Ukrainian government is working around the clock to seek justice for the victims, even as the war rages on.
In this special podcast episode, Lawfare Contributing Editor Eric Ciaramella brings you audio from a recent event at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace featuring Ukraine’s Prosecutor General, Andriy Kostin. In his discussion with Carnegie President Tino Cuéllar, Kostin laid out a compelling case for why Ukrainians believe that peace without justice and accountability would be a false peace. Kostin discussed how his office is dealing with the overwhelming caseload and the help it needs from international partners.
This event was organized in partnership with the American Society of International Law and the Embassy of Ukraine in Washington.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. If we are talking about peace and this is very explicitly indicated |
| 0:38.7 | in peace formula proposed by President Zelensky, where justice, a restoration of justice is |
| 0:46.0 | one of the important elements and my president always says that we are fighting on both |
| 0:55.5 | frontlines to restore our territorial integrity, independence and freedom and to ensure justice |
| 1:06.5 | for all victims and survivors of this war. These two elements are interlinked and they are how |
| 1:14.6 | you can feel a peace from the point of view of person in Ukraine who suffered from this war, |
| 1:22.9 | who suffered from war crimes. I'm Eric Charmella, contributing editor at LawFair and this is the |
| 1:29.4 | LawFair podcast, October 2nd, 2023. Today's episode is a bit unusual. We're bringing you audio from |
| 1:36.5 | an event I helped organize last week at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace with Ukraine's |
| 1:41.7 | prosecutor general, Andrei Kostin. Mr. Kostin had a fascinating conversation with Carnegie president |
| 1:47.4 | Tino Kweyar about the Ukrainian government's focus on achieving justice and accountability for the |
| 1:52.4 | many victims of Russia's war crimes and atrocities. The discussion ranged from the challenges of |
| 1:57.7 | actually documenting and investigating tens of thousands of alleged crimes in wartime to the |
| 2:02.5 | ongoing debates over a future tribunal, reparations and Ukrainian government's simultaneous effort |
| 2:08.0 | to fight corruption. This event was co-sponsored with the American Society of International Law |
| 2:13.6 | and the Embassy of Ukraine in Washington. It's the LawFair podcast, October 2nd. War crimes, |
| 2:20.0 | tribunals and reparations, a conversation with Ukraine's prosecutor general. |
| 2:26.0 | This event with the prosecutor general of Ukraine comes at a critical moment for Ukraine |
| 2:32.2 | and for the world. It's an important moment because a terrible and tragic war that began with an |
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