"We simply don't have the physical capacity to investigate this vast number of crimes, as it is unprecedented, says Maryna Slobodianiuk, a researcher with Truth Dogs, one of the humanitarian organizations working to shed light on and denounce what is happening."
"By the end of September 2025, when the estimated number of cases was 185,000, only 446 had reached the courts, and only 156 had resulted in a sentence less than one in 1,000 according to a study conducted by the Ukrainian Union for Human Rights in Helsinki."
In Kyiv, police officers are overwhelmed with war crime cases from the Russian invasion, with 3,000 files for just eight officers. The Prosecutor's Office has identified over 216,000 potential war crimes and 253,000 victims. Experts indicate that the investigations are slow due to insufficient resources, with each investigator managing around 100 cases. By September 2025, only 446 cases had reached court, and just 156 resulted in a sentence, highlighting the system's inability to cope with the unprecedented number of crimes.
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