Office tasked with investigating the Russian invasion of Ukraine opens in The Hague

After months of lobbying from Kyiv, The International Centre for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine (ICPA) has opened in The Hague, Netherlands.

The centre can be found within the building of the government agency Eurojust and has been backed by the EU and the US.

Kyiv has been lobbying for the creation of a special tribunal since hundreds of corpses were discovered after Russian troops withdrew from the town of Boutcha near the Ukrainian capital in April 2022.

International support has grown steadily, and in February the European Commission announced the creation of the ICPA. Brussels stated that the centre's "ultimate objective is to prosecute those responsible for the invasion" of Ukraine.