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War-crimes prosecutions in Ukraine are a long game

The West and Ukraine need to set priorities and organise better

IZIUM, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 25: Silence, makeshift crosses, and open graves are all that remain after Ukrainian forensic and war crimes investigators complete their exhumation of the bodies of 447 people from a mass burial site created during six months of Russian occupation of Izium, Ukraine, on September 25, 2022. Ukrainian armed forces recaptured more than 8,000 square kilometers of the northeastern Kharkiv region from Russia in a lightning counter-offensive in early September. The advance is yielding evidence of war crimes left behind by retreating Russian troops, including reported cases, in this Izium pine forest graveyard, of some corpses with hands bound or killed with shrapnel or bullets, execution-style. (Photo by Scott Peterson/Getty Images)
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