President Volodymyr Zelensky submitted on Aug. 15 a package of bills to Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Ukraine signed the Rome Statute in 2000 but has not ratified it since then. In 2015, Ukraine declared the necessity of ratification through a decision made by the National Security and Defense Council. Following the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the Ukrainian authorities considered ratifying the Rome Statute, but only after the end of the war. One of the draft laws stipulates that …