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Opinion | The International Criminal Court (ICC)'s prosecutor in The Hague is investigating grave crimes allegedly committed in Ukraine.

Will efforts to put Russia in a Nuremberg-style trial for the Ukraine war succeed?

During the 35 years Eli Rosenbaum spent hunting Nazis, he always looked up to his forebears in the profession. But it was only recently, as he ventured into Ukraine to track down Russian war criminals, that he felt a personal connection with the investigators who pursued Adolf Hitler’s henchmen

The war in Ukraine is, in fact, more global that it seems.

A patch of land on the north side of Kyiv is the site of recurring horror, repressed memories, and bloody historical echoes. But there are glimmers of a justice to come.

Prosecuting the crime of aggression is the only effective way to target those who are most responsible for the horrors of war. Yet international law does not currently recognize this offense.

A looming trial could 'peel away the doubters in the camp around Putin' by offering them immunity, said Prof Philippe Sands

Philippe Sands is a writer, university professor and international lawyer. He has been involved in cases concerning the war in Yugoslavia, the Rwandan genocide, the abuses in Iraq and Guantanamo, the indictment of Pinochet.

PHILIPPE SANDS: Mr Putins invasion of Ukraine, and the crimes being committed in his name, feel very personal to me. It is where many of my family once lived.