In February 2022, Matviichuk together with other partners created the ‘Tribunal for Putin’ initiative in order to document international crimes done by the Russian Federation under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in all regions of Ukraine.

In every region of Ukraine, member organisations are in the field documenting the Russian war crimes committed against innocent men, women, and children. These crimes are defined in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court as Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes.

The Tribunal for Putin uses the existing procedures of the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the OSCE, the European Union, and the International Criminal Court to document war crimes in order to bring those responsible to justice. 

The “Tribunal for Putin” was established on 24 March 2022 and three major Ukrainian Human Rights Organisations are its Trustees:

The following 24 organisations in Ukraine are taking part in the Initiative:

  • Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union
  • The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group
  • Center for Civil Liberties
  • Truth Hounds
  • La Strada
  • Environment, People and Law
  • Docudays UA
  • Chuhuiv Human Rights Protection Group
  • Northern Human Rights Protection Group
  • Human Rights centre (Cherkasy)
  • Charity and Health Fund (Kherson)
  • Committee of Voters of Ukraine (Odesa Region branch)
  • MART NGO (Chernihiv)
  • Educational House of Human Rights (Chernihiv)
  • Legal League (Podilsk)
  • SICH Human Rights Protection Group (Dnipro)
  • SIM Center for Legal and Political Research (Lviv)
  • Seven public reception offices of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union in in Kramatorsk, Toretsk, Mariupol, Pokrovsk, Chernivtsi, Zaporizhzhia, Uzhhorod