title: Ensuring fairness of war crimes trials in Ukraine
abstract: The Ukrainian criminal justice system faces an extraordinary challenge of ensuring accountability for tens of thousands of war crimes allegedly committed in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion in 2014. While affected by the ongoing war, Ukrainian courts have nonetheless continued functioning and examining war crime cases. Ensuring fairness of these historical war crime trials taking place in Ukraine is crucial for their legitimacy. What is more, these war crimes trials are a test of the ability of U