Violation of Laws and Customs of War: Criminal-Legal and Procedural Aspect

Roksolana Klymkevych1, Yuliia Lisitsyna2, Roman Maksymovych3, Iryna Serkevych4 & Nataliia Ustrytska5

Abstract
The article aims to study the grounds for the criminal-legal qualification of war crimes and prosecution for their commission. The methodological basis of the study was the dialectical and comparative methods, concrete search methods, methods of system-structural and logical analysis, and the method of generalization. The main results of the study were the determination of the content of the concepts “armed conflict”, “war”, “war crime”, and “laws and customs of war”; consideration of regulatory and legal support in the field of war crimes; establishment of actions or omissions that are violations of the laws and customs of war; clarifying the procedure for prosecution for committing war crimes; summarizing the possibilities of improving legal and regulatory provisions regarding war crimes and criminal
punishments for their commission.

Keywords: Military conflicts, Rights Violations, War Crimes, Criminal Liability, Legislation.