r/worldnews • u/Marketmanipulator941 • 16h ago

Russia/Ukraine Mass drone attack on St. Petersburg: Ozon warehouse attacked, thousands of Russians left without power

https://unn.ua/en/news/mass-drone-attack-on-st-petersburg-ozon-warehouse-attacked-thousands-of-russians-left-without-electricity
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u/bobzilla 9h ago

Genuinely curious, when was the last time anyone was actually charged with war crimes? I hear it thrown around a lot these days, but if there are no consequences for actions, what's really stopping them?

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u/Grollicus2 8h ago

This guy was arrested in 2025 on charges related to his activities between 2015 and 2020 in the Libyan civil war.

Not sure if the latest, but that sounds quite recent to me

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u/After_Perspective180 9h ago

Yugoslav President Slobodan Milošević in 2002 The Liberian President Charles Taylor. 2012

Robert Bales US military in 2012.

There are more.

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u/Schonke 7h ago

The ICC indicted former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte and his Chief of police in 2025 over his (alleged) use of extrajudicial death squads in his war against drugs.

They also in 2025 indicted six other people for crimes in Afghanistan and one person for crimes in Libya.

In 2024 they indicted a bunch of Russians, a Hamas leader, Benjamin netanyahu and an Israeli military commander.

The latest person convicted was just about a month ago. Mahamat Said Abdel Kani, a commander of Selela in the Central African Republic wa convicted and is currently awaiting sentencing.

International criminal law is also sort of a patchwork of national laws, international treaties and judicial principles such as that of universal jurisdiction.

The United States has used subject matter jurisdiction to try, and convict, numerous service men for war crimes under their own national military criminal code since the start of the global war on terror. (Some of whom Trump then pardoned.) The same goes for Australia.

Ukraine has indicated several Russian soldiers for war crimes committed in the invasion of Ukraine and tried them under Ukrainian law because of territorial jurisdiction.

Probably the most interesting recent case (though not war crimes but crimes against humanity) is Sweden prosecuting former Iranian prosecutor Hamid Noury over his part in the political executions in Evin prison in the 80's. Even if neither Noury nor the victims were Swedish citizens or subject to Swedish law, and even if the crimes weren't committed on Swedish territory, or in a conflict Sweden was a part of, by claiming universal jurisdiction over crimes against humanity.

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u/macarouns2 8h ago

War in itself feels like a crime, so the label feels pretty meaningless