Nadiia Chuchvaha
At MIPL, she is involved in monitoring and covering court proceedings related to the war.
She is a master’s student at the Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, specializing in “International Law.” Prior to this, she studied at Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, where she developed an interest in criminal and international law. At the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, she was a third-year student and then definitively decided to dedicate her professional career to protecting human rights, particularly those affected by the war. She is also engaged in monitoring court proceedings. During her internships at the Prosecutor’s Office and the international organization GRC, she participated in investigations of war crimes.
The Southern District Military Court of Rostov-on-Don has handed down sentences to 24 current and former members of the Azov Brigade. They were sentenced to between 13 and 23 years of imprisonment, all to be served in maximum-security penal colonies. Eleven were tried in absentia, and one died in a pre-trial detention center.
26 March 2025
In Strasbourg, the members of the Coalition of States held a final meeting to finalize the technical work on the draft documents necessary to establish a special tribunal for the crime of aggression against Ukraine.
25 March 2025
Nikolay Kartashev, a 22-year-old Russian serviceman from Rostov Oblast, is charged with killing a civilian during the occupation of Bucha in 2022. He is accused of violating the laws and customs of war. This is one of the few war crime cases that are tried not in absentia, that is, Kartashev is in the dock.
15 October 2024