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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,...
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Marten Zwanenburg,
Arjen Vermeer
| Jul 19, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Law of Armed Conflict, Law of Neutrality, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Transfers of POWs to Third States Introduction On 9 June 2023, media reported that Hungary received eleven Ukrainian Prisoners of War (POWs) from Russia. More than a week later, Reuters reported that three of these persons had been repatriated to...
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Anaïs Maroonian
| Jun 29, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Destruction of the Kakhovka Dam: Disproportionate and Prohibited Introduction On Tuesday, June 6, 2023, the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam was destroyed causing a major humanitarian and environmental disaster. This post analyses the question of whether...
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Lindsay Freeman
| Apr 14, 2023 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Cyber, Law of Armed Conflict, State Responsibility, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Accountability for Cyber War Crimes In our digitally connected and technology-dependent world, cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure such as electric power grids, water treatment facilities, and industrial control systems have far-reaching...
