Given the thousands of war crimes committed by Russia with impunity during its multi-year war of aggression against Ukraine, it's shocking to read about a recent Russian criminal prosecution of two of its soldiers for war crimes (murdering nine family members) in occupied Ukraine. The translated Russian news story linked to in The New York Times states that the two were tried in a military court, but for regular (non-military, non-war crimes) offenses under the Russian criminal code (illegal entry and murder). Accountability however rare is praiseworthy, though of course the world has no idea whether the defendants were accorded due process or whether the trials complied with fundamental judicial guarantees.
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