Tech battles to show its worth in Ukraine war crimes probes


The Ukrainian flag flutters between buildings destroyed in bombardment, in the town of Borodianka, in the Kyiv region on April 17, 2022. Ukraine could well be the coming-of-age for technology-led evidence gathering. — AFP

PARIS: Russia’s war in Ukraine is still being counted in days, but images of atrocities already number in the hundreds of thousands.

The conflict is the first to throw up such rich evidence in real time, but the sheer volume of material poses a huge challenge for those trying to use it as evidence of war crimes.

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