On 28 November 2025, there will be a presentation of the monograph “Wartime Crisis Mode: The Impact of Russia’s Aggression on the System of Social Control in Ukraine (Crime, Institutes, and Trust in Criminal Justice)” We cordially invite all experts in the fields of criminal law, criminology, sociology, political science, and other areas and disciplines…
Category: Ukraine
Russia Is Deploying a Network of Total Surveillance: From the Subway to Bank Correspondence
Russia is rapidly expanding its digital surveillance infrastructure, intensifying control over its citizens’ physical and online lives. This pervasive system, often justified under the guise of security, is seen by many as establishing a “digital Gulag” – a mechanism for total societal control. Key Developments in Surveillance:
Europol: Bosnians Among Mercenaries Wanted for Ukraine War Crimes
Bosnian citizens are among 654 alleged members of Russian mercenary companies Wagner and Redut suspected of committing war crimes in Ukraine, said the European police agency Europol. On October 31, 2025, the European police agency Europol said that an unnamed number of citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina who allegedly fought with Russian ‘private military companies’…
International Special Operation “Avengers-2”: Ukrainian Police Exposed 654 Militants of PMCs “Wagner” and “Redut”
More than 70 simultaneous searches are currently underway across Ukraine and Moldova, targeting the residences of suspects and their relatives. The operation aims to identify, document, and prosecute Russian-funded militants who fought against Ukraine. Investigation Progress Ukrainian police have successfully identified key elements of the mercenary network, including: Investigators have amassed substantial evidence, including documents,…
Crimes Against Peace, Security of Mankind and International Legal Order: Police Statistic for 9 Month2 2025
According to official data of the Office of General Prosecutor, as of 7 August 2022, the Ukrainian authorities were investigating almost 26 thousand criminal cases of suspected war crimes committed after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. In 2023, the number of war crimes increased 246 times as compared to 2021 (62128…
Crimes Committed With Firearms: Police Statistics for 9 Months 2025
While analysing crimes committed with firearms and corresponding crime statistics, it could be expected that crime rates resulting from illegal use of firearms would extremely rise after February 2022. Nevertheless, police statistics partly refute such a presumption. Yes, it is obvious that the number of crimes with weapons has seriously risen for the twelve months…
Crimes Committed by Russian Military Personnel During the Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine (as of 26 October 2025)
Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, investigators from the National Police of Ukraine have opened 170,028 criminal proceedings into crimes committed on Ukrainian territory by servicemen of the Russian Federation’s armed forces and their accomplices. Of these:
Ukraine: 663 Strikes on Populated Areas in the Zaporizhzhia region in 24 hours: Consequences Documented by the Police
On 25 October 2025, Russian occupiers used 414 UAVs (mostly FPV), carried out 5 air strikes and 238 artillery strikes, and fired 6 times from multiple launch rocket systems. The enemy shelled Yurkivka in Zaporizhzhia, Stepnogorsk, Plavni, Stepove in Vasylivka, as well as Huliaipole, Orikhiv, Novodanilivka, Mala Tokmachka, Shcherbaky, Novoandriivka, Charivne, Bilohirya, Uspenivka, Chervone, Malynivka,…
Shelling of Kyiv on 26 October 2025: Ukraine’s National Police Keeps Documenting the Aftermath of the Shelling of the Capital
Two dead and thirteen injured: police continue to document the aftermath of the hostile shelling of the capital that took place on 26 October 2025. In addition to a 36-year-old man whose body was recovered from the rubble in the Desnianskyi district, a 58-year-old man was killed in the same district and was taken to…
Cybercrime in Ukraine: Police Statistics for 9 Months 2025
Focusing on cybercrimes in Ukraine, we should note that we use the term ‘cybercrime’, although the full title of the relevant Section of the Criminal Code of Ukraine is ‘criminal offences in the field of the use of electronic computers, systems and networks, computer networks and electronic communication networks’. Cybercrimes (criminal proceedings, total) Cybercrimes…