5 . War crimes & 'the Reckoning'

In this instalment of Battleground: The Big Picture, host Julius Strauss takes a deep dive into Hungary’s seismic political shift following the April elections. After 16 years of rule, Viktor Orbán was swept aside by political newcomer Péter Magyar and his Tisza party. Now nearly ... Show More

In this episode, Saul David and Patrick Bishop analyse the political shockwaves in Kyiv following former Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov's controversial call for wartime presidential elections. They examine the rising tension within the Ukrainian leadership, the removal of key ... Show More

In this episode of Battleground: The Big Picture, host Roger Moorhouse sits down with renowned historian and author Robert Service to dissect the historical threads connecting the fall of the Soviet Union to Vladimir Putin’s present-day Russia. Drawing from his recent work on the ... Show More

Warning: This episode contains content that some listeners may find upsettingNo matter the war being fought, it's a sad fact that war crimes take place all around the world - we need only look to Russia's offensive war in Ukraine to see how civilians can be illegally targeted in ... Show More

The UN Human Rights Office has today described the war in Ukraine as a ‘horror story of violations against civilians’, in which respect for international law has been ‘tossed aside’. Matilda Bogner, who runs the UN's Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, tells us about the ... Show More

Please note that the following contains descriptions of graphic violence, listener discretion is advised. This episode was written by Stakuyi of the History of Everything Podcast and goes over some of the horrific war crimes of Unit 731 in World War 2. This is the story of Unit 7 ... Show More

Russia’s onslaught on Ukraine has left widespread destruction in some of the country’s major cities. But as Ukrainians fight back, there are fears that Vladimir Putin could escalate the conflict by using even deadlier weapons. In this episode of the Tug of War podcast, Christiane ... Show More

As scenes of civilian corpses strewn on the streets are repeated across Ukraine, Victoria, Vitaly and Lewis take stock of a watershed in how we are seeing the war.Kay Devlin from BBC Monitoring’s anti-disinformation unit talks us through the clues and sources they look for when v ... Show More

Running a hotline for victims of abuse. We hear from Alyona Kryvulyak...Russian missiles have hit the city of Vinnytsia, in central Ukraine, killing at least 23 people. From the scene of the attack, the BBC’s Zhanna Bezpiatchuk gives us the latest on the situation. And we talk to ... Show More

<p>Gideon discusses the history of international humanitarian law since the first world war with Boyd van Dijk, a historian at Oxford university and author of a recent book,&nbsp;<em>Preparing for War - The Making of the Geneva Conventions</em>. They discuss current efforts to pr ... Show More

Day 267. Today, as the bodies of 63 torture victims are discovered in the newly liberated Kherson region, we discuss the challenges of recording war crimes within arm’s reach of the front line. Contributors: Claire Hubble (Host). Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor). Follow Dom on ... Show More

<p>It’s been a year since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine MP Lesia Vasylenko describes waking up in a war zone that day and she argues that Russian war crimes must not be allowed to go unpunished.</p><br><p><strong>Mentioned in this podcast:</strong></p><p><a hre ... Show More