Nearly seven years after the start of hostilities in eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian government is yet to pass legislation necessary to investigate war crimes.
Thousands of people have been killed, wounded and displaced by the conflict, which began in 2014 - and war crimes have been a significant component of both international peace talks and post-conflict reconciliation.
But in Ukraine itself, there have only been two successful prosecutions for war crimes, says Oleksandra Matviychuk, a Ukrainian human rights activist and head of the Center for Civil Liberties. She says that many offences that should be prosecuted as war crimes have been investigated as general criminal offences.
