Putin’s War and the Failure of International Law
The entirety of President Putin’s war of aggression constitutes a crime against the rules-based international order, which makes it predictable that Russian troops will also behave in outlaw fashion.

At Bucha, Motyzhn, and a dozen other villages on the Kiev periphery, retreating Russian troops have left gruesome corpora delicti of mass war crimes in their wake. Imagery of Ukrainian civilians shot with hands bound behind their backs, and reports of wholesale gang rapes by Russian soldiers, have inflamed international outrage.
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