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International Criminal Court Opens Field Office in Kyiv To Track Russian War Crimes


The ICC said in a statement the office in the Ukrainian capital is its largest outside of The Hague (pictured).
The ICC said in a statement the office in the Ukrainian capital is its largest outside of The Hague (pictured).

The Ukrainian Prosecutor-General's Office said on September 14 that the International Criminal Court (ICC) had opened a field office in Kyiv as part of efforts to hold Russian forces accountable for potential war crimes committed during it's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The ICC said in a statement the office in the Ukrainian capital is its largest outside of The Hague. The statement said that more than 104,000 war crimes had been registered during Russia's aggression against Ukraine, adding that the number of such crimes rises daily.

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