A Russian withdrawal from towns around the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, has led to the discovery of corpses.Â
Associated Press journalists in Bucha counted dozens of bodies in civilian clothes and apparently without weapons, many seemingly shot at close range, and some with their hands bound or their flesh burned.
All of this has prompted accusations of Russian war crimes.
CBC explains how such apparent war crimes would be prosecuted, and the challenges the prosecutions might face.
Would the apparent Russian attacks on Ukrainian civilians be considered war crimes?
During war, the Geneva Conventions of 1949, along with the 1977 Additional Protocols, have outlined certain
