Ukraine Programme

The Mobile Justice Teams (MJTs) have emerged as the leading component of support for Ukraine’s justice system as it attempts to process innumerable violations of international law before and during Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. This illegal aggression has resulted in extensive violations of international humanitarian law (IHL) and international criminal law (ICL), including war crimes, crimes against humanity, and potentially genocide. These violations have concurrently significantly damaged Ukraine’s legal infrastructure, limiting its (already under-resourced) capacity to investigate and prosecute these grave crimes. The response to this legal crisis has been, in part, led by an international collaborative effort, namely the Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group for Ukraine (ACA), designed to support the Office of the Prosecutor (OPG) and associated investigative agencies, pursuant to which the MJTs operate as the principal, on-the-ground, partner of the ACA.

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Ukraine

16 Apr 2026

Ukraine’s first ever court verdict for a war crime against the natural reserve fund

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Ukraine’s first ever court verdict for a war crime against the natural reserve fund

Ukraine

13 Apr 2026

One Year Since the Palm Sunday Attacks on Sumy: Notices of Suspicion Issued to Senior Russian Commanders

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One Year Since the Palm Sunday Attacks on Sumy: Notices of Suspicion Issued to Senior Russian Commanders

09 Apr 2026

GRC presented the Pilot Toolkit on Trauma-Informed Interviewing for Ukrainian legal professionals

03 Apr 2026

The Alibi Machine by Coda Story

31 Mar 2026

Training on Investigating and Prosecuting International Crimes Committed in Places of Detention

Our Vision

To be a dynamic and sustainable force in Ukraine’s pursuit of justice, empowering national authorities to effectively address international crimes through a collaborative model that combines local expertise with national and international legal specialists, ensuring efficiency, adaptability, and long-term impact in the face of conflict and limited resources.

Shaping Our Future with Purpose and Vision

Providing a range of legal, investigative, forensic, and transitional justice expertise in the field where crimes occurred, and where the OPG and investigators work. The MJTs are staffed with multi-disciplinary (legal, investigative, and prosecutorial) experts to be able to readily provide tailored support.
Whether concerning detention crimes (e.g., torture), CRSV, crimes against and affecting children, crimes against critical civilian infrastructure (e.g., health care, schools, sports halls, etc.), deliberate harm to the environment, or starvation crimes – strategies, operational plans, and SOPs are essential to provide focused investigations within the constraints of limited resources.
Subsequent case building rests upon a range of expertise, including trauma-informed and survivor-centred methodologies, the effective interviewing of witnesses and victims, the preservation of crime scenes, the forensic examination of ballistics and missile strikes, open-source intelligence gathering, the identification of IHL violations, crimes against humanity, and genocide, and the collation of a wide range of diffuse circumstantial evidence to build cases against the top political and military leadership.
Coordination and collaboration between national authorities, civil society, and international partners to ensure a comprehensive and holistic approach to justice. By providing this ongoing support continuously and in situ, the MJTs ensure that the work of local actors is sensitively peer-reviewed, analysed objectively, supported throughout, and completed as expeditiously as possible according to international best practices.