Putin could be charged with the crime of aggression for the Ukraine war – but it's an expensive process with high stakes
- Written by Shelley Inglis, Executive Director, University of Dayton Human Rights Center, University of Dayton
There have been calls to charge and prosecute Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes in Ukraine. Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesA 21-year-old Russian soldier pleaded guilty in a trial in Kyiv on May 18, 2022, for shooting a Ukrainian man in the head after Russia invaded Ukraine in late February 2022.
It marked the first trial of a...

