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John C. Tramazzo
| May 17, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium, Weapons Law
Ukraine Symposium – Russia’s Use of Riot Control Agents in Ukraine Russian forces are reportedly using non-lethal chemical weapons known as riot control agents (RCA) to flush combatants out of trenches in eastern Ukraine before attacking them with conventional...
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Michael Kelly
| Mar 8, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – New ICC Arrest Warrants for Russian Flag Officers The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) wanted list for Russian perpetrators of war crimes committed in Ukraine has doubled. Prosecutor Karim Khan announced arrest warrants against two Russian...
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Pavle Kilibarda
| Feb 5, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Legal Reflections on the Russia-Ukraine Prisoner Exchange In early January, Russia and Ukraine announced the largest prisoner exchange since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. Mediated by the United Arab Emirates, the...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| Jan 2, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting, Ukraine-Russia Symposium, Use of Force
Ukraine Symposium – Retaliatory Warfare and International Humanitarian Law On 29 December, Russia launched a massive country-wide drone and missile assault on Ukraine. Although Ukraine shot down 114 of the 158 inbound missiles, over 40 Ukrainian civilians died in the...
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Rob McLaughlin
| Dec 20, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Other Bodies of Law, Policy, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Mine Clearance Operations in the Black Sea In an Articles of War post earlier this year, Ben Rothchild and Mark Jessup addressed the under-appreciated challenges—operational, navigational, and legal—posed by the relatively extensive mine-laying...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| Aug 29, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, State Responsibility, Ukraine-Russia Symposium, Use of Force
Ukraine Symposium – Territorial Acquisition and Armed Conflict Soon after the outbreak of its international armed conflict with Ukraine in 2014, Russia annexed Crimea. Eight years later, it also annexed territory around the four Ukrainian oblasts of Donetsk,...
