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WASHINGTON —
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said on Monday the Justice Department intends to appoint a prosecutor and a legal adviser to assist Ukraine with its efforts to investigate and prosecute suspected war crimes by Russian forces.
The prosecutor will be based in The Hague at Eurojust, the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation, Garland said, following a meeting with Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin.
Garland said a resident legal adviser would also be dispatched to the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv this summer.
He said Ukrainian prosecutors had been working with the Justice Department to investigate war crimes for which the U.S. has jurisdiction, such as those who kill or injure Americans. Congress also recently expanded the department’s authority to prosecute any war criminals found within the U.S.
“We have been making good progress with respect to some suspects,” Garland told reporters on Monday, adding that the investigation “is going very well.”
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