Talking Foreign Policy
Talking Foreign Policy
CWRU School of Law
Talking Foreign Policy - Prosecuting Russian Environmental War Crimes
46 minutes Posted Mar 3, 2025 at 3:15 pm.
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In its war with Ukraine, Russia has targeted the environment as its most insidious means of warfare. It has blown up dams, flooded coal mines, burned down national forests, and even targeted the black sea dolphins that inhabit the waters off Ukraine's coast. With an effort to obtain a peace agreement now underway, will the perpetrators of these attacks be brought to justice? Where will they be tried? And what law will apply?