The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has adopted a resolution recognising the deportation and forced transfer of Ukrainian children and adults to the territory of the Russian Federation as genocide. The document was adopted at the spring session of PACE in Strasbourg. It was supported by 87 deputies.

On 16 May, the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee voted in favour of a resolution calling on the US President to support the creation of a special tribunal to punish the crime of aggression against Ukraine. The document was sent to the House of Representatives for consideration. 

War criminal Yevgeny Prigozhin said that Russian mercenaries would no longer take Ukrainian defenders prisoner, but would instead "kill everyone on the battlefield". Such a statement by the head of Russian mercenaries Prigozhin is a war crime.

One of the telegram channels published an interview with members of the so-called Wagner PMC, during which they reported the killing of civilians, including children, as well as prisoners of war of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Gulagu.net project published the testimonies of two former commanders of Wagner PMC units who were recruited to Yevhen Prigozhin's mercenaries from Russian colonies

"During our telephone conversation, Foreign Minister Arnoldo Tinoco informed me that Costa Rica has decided to join the core group of the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine, increasing the total number of countries to 34," Dmytro Kuleba said in a statement.

The International Criminal Court (hereinafter - the Court) is the first permanent international court, established in 1998, and actually started its work in 2002. The seat of the Court is The Hague in the Netherlands.

The Russian president Putin and the commissioner for children's rights of the Russian Federation, Lvova-Belova, have the official status of suspects in the commission of a war crime - the illegal deportation and transfer of Ukrainian children.

Two more countries joined the coalition to create a special tribunal for the crime of aggression against Ukraine. Currently, 32 states are working together to bring Russia's top political and military leadership to justice, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba, announced on Twitter on March 14, 2023.

In the Chernigivshchyna, the court found guilty of breaking laws and that of one Russian citizen. The soldier was sentenced for robbing civilians up to 12 years of imprisonment.

The Kyiv District Court of the city of Kharkiv found the citizen guilty of collaborationism.