When civilians are being killed or brutalized in large numbers, soaring calls for the perpetrators to be held to account can feel idle if no court has a clear mandate and jurisdiction to prosecute those crimes. In the case of Russia’s increasingly vicious invasion of Ukraine, though, the situation is straightforward. Years ago Ukraine gave the International Criminal Court (ICC) jurisdiction over crimes against humanity and war crimes committed on its territory since November 2013 . On that basis, and spurred by Russia’s expanded invasion and 39 ICC member states formally requesting he take up the situation, the ICC […]
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