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There is a move discussion that affects this article. See the discussion here: Talk:Russian invasion of Ukraine#Requested move 24 February 2025. – Asarlaí ^(talk) 15:57, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"The alleged perpetrators were from the ranks of Russian and pro-Russian separatist armed forces in 89 cases and from civilians or unidentified individuals in territory controlled by Russian armed forces in 2 cases." The source given says also: "from the ranks of Ukrainian armed forces, including territorial defence, in 9 cases and law enforcement in 1 case". This is omitted from the article. Why?

Regarding verified cases, the article says: "OHCHR reported that 11 cases, including rape and gang rape, were committed by Russian armed forces and law enforcement." The source given also says: "Five acts of CRSV were committed by Ukrainian armed forces, including territorial defence, or other law enforcement bodies." So out of 23 verified cases, 11 were committed by Russians and 5 by Ukrainians. But the latter is just not mentioned. Why? 31.45.44.189 (talk) 07:59, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Can you please give a link to this source? Lazarbeem (talk) 18:06, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Can the "Mistreatment of prisoners of war" section just be a redirect to the Prisoners of war in the Russian invasion of Ukraine article due to the fact that there is too much to cover in just one section of this article Lazarbeem (talk) 01:35, 17 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No? It's still possible to summarize key information and incidents without going into too much detail, in-depth coverage is what the main article on the topic is for. Mistreatment of POWs has been noted on both sides of the war in relation to war crimes, so I'm not sure why a reader should need to be redirected to a different article for even a basic overview of the topic. TylerBurden (talk) 18:42, 17 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Understood. Also speaking of another war crime that both sides have been accused of, should looting on this article for both sides be summarized in the same way? Lazarbeem (talk) 14:03, 19 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, but proportionally to the coverage in reliable sources. Alaexis_¿question? 15:53, 19 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please, add to the Subsection Proposed specialised court for the crime of aggression of section International legal proceedings:

• Remove current and place new main article link:
  Main article: Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine

• Add to the bottom of the subsection the following:

• Remove Proposed specialized court from the heading of the subsection, replacing the phrase with:

'Special tribunal'
either making it proper name as the linked article (then capitalised), or retaining non-proper name.

Thank you. 78.81.123.235 (talk) 16:48, 2 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question: Could you put the change in a codeblock with difs so it's easier to understand ther change that you are asking for Dahawk04 (talk) 17:21, 2 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Dahawk04 Yes. Please, provide a link to the template. Thank you 78.81.123.235 (talk) 17:27, 2 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The diff template is available here Template:Text diff Dahawk04 (talk) 18:18, 2 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Dahawk04 Please, proceed. Done. Thank you 78.81.123.235 (talk) 19:43, 2 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Thank you for updating with the code blocks -much appreciated Dahawk04 (talk) 12:30, 3 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Well you can't show only one side of the war you have to show both. 46.122.67.111 (talk) 22:27, 21 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The article does mention Ukrainan war crimes, but there are good reasons why the article reports on more Russian war crimes.

Maybe you want the article to contain as many Ukrainian as Russsian war crimes, but that is not going to happen since such a false balance would misrepresent the reality of this war. The reason that the war crimes in this article are mostly Russian is because the vast majority are perpetrated by Russia. Consider for example that the ICC issued arrest warrants against six Russian citizens versus zero for Ukrainians, and that organizations like Amnesty International point out Russia as the most offending party in the war.

Some of the relevant rules on Wikipedia about this are Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, Wikipedia:Verifiability and Wikipedia:Reliable sources. If you feel that there is content missing from this article, please check those links and add the content to the article, or bring it up on this talk page for discussion. Sjö (talk) 09:43, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The only mention of Ukrainian crimes I can find is abuse/execution of Russian troops. Which is kinda suspicious. It is within the realm of possibility that the only crimes Ukrainian troops have committed were against... Russian troops (heeey, it's war!), but not very likely. Mercster (talk) 11:25, 14 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't matter what any of us here find likely or unlikely. Reliable sources matter. Read the pages linked by Sjö above. — Chrisahn (talk) 11:29, 14 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

there seems to be a pro-Ukrainian bias throughout the article. ~2026-54692-4 (talk) 22:17, 25 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Well when one side commits the majority of the war crimes, it tends to have more coverage in WP:RS, which is what Wikipedia is meant to be based on. The "bias" you are speaking of is likely implementation of basic WP:DUE policy. TylerBurden (talk) 13:35, 26 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]