The U.S. departments of State and Justice are working with European allies to support Ukraine's prosecutor general, who is investigating on the ground.
Ukraine's Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova visits a mass grave in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, on April 13, 2022. The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor to Bucha visited as the front in Russia's invasion shifted eastward and new allegations of crimes inflicted on locals emerged.
"It's extremely important for the sanctity and integrity of history to document these crimes, to make sure that we have preserved and authenticated the evidence that is being generated in the various crime scenes around Ukraine," said Beth Van Schaack, the U.S. ambassador-at-large for global criminal justice.
At the same time, Van Schaack said, the State Department is funding a group of outside experts with experience prosecuting war crimes who are directly assisting Ukrainian authorities. The Ukrainian authorities, he said, have experience investigating war crimes, but not"on a large scale and certainly in the midst of a full-blown armed conflict."
There are also so-called mobile justice teams of international experts to support Ukrainian investigators and prosecutors on the ground.The more straightforward aspect of a war crimes investigation is similar to a garden variety criminal investigation: What happened? When did it happen? Who are the victims?
All of these efforts to document possible Russian crimes now is with an eye toward holding perpetrators accountable in the future.
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