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Anna Mykytenko

Anna Mykytenko is a senior legal advisor and the Ukraine Country Manager at Global Rights Compliance (GRC), an international law foundation specializing in international humanitarian and criminal law. GRC co-leads the Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group, an initiative introduced by the U.S., the U.K., and the EU to provide strategic advice and operational assistance to Ukraine's Office of the Prosecutor General in the investigation and prosecution of atrocity crimes in Ukraine.

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Opinion: Another election at gunpoint in occupied Ukraine

by Anna Mykytenko
The media has been filled with coverage of the Russian presidential election that took place this weekend. Incumbent Russian President Vladimir Putin boasted 87% of the vote – a number that hardly came as a surprise amid widespread criticism that the election was neither free nor fair.   Even before the election began in Russia, European Council President Charles Michel wrote: “Would like to congratulate Vladimir Putin on his landslide victory in the elections starting today. No opposition. No

Opinion: Sexual violence is not a hidden war crime in Ukraine

by Anna Mykytenko
Working alongside investigators and prosecutors on sexual and gender-based crimes is a horrific experience. It involves listening to, reading, and hearing accounts of unimaginable suffering in sickening detail. To support the work of Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office, Mobile Justice Teams (MJTs) comprised of Ukrainian and international experts were deployed across the country to investigate war crimes and acts of sexual violence. Through these MJTs, we have learned of hundreds of women and