Volodymyr Hryshko

Volodymyr Hryshko
Assisting Lecturer
Volodymyr Hryshko is a Senior Legal Counsel at Truth Hounds and a member of the International Expert Council of the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, where he advises on war crimes against the environment.
At Truth Hounds, he leads and coordinates complex investigations and legal submissions on violations of international humanitarian and human rights law, advises Ukrainian national authorities on the prosecution of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and represents the organization before national and international stakeholders.
In 2024, he co-coached the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy team to victory in the 47th Telders International Law Moot Court Competition—only the second such achievement in Ukraine’s history.
His research interests include public international law, particularly the law of state responsibility, international humanitarian law, and international criminal law.

Main publications:

Hryshko V. (2024, November 5). Analyzing the Guterres–Putin Meeting from the International Law Perspective: Putting Aside the Emotions, the Secretary-General Allegedly Violated the UN-ICC Relationship Agreement. EJIL: Talk! https://www.ejiltalk.org/analyzing-the-guterres-putin-meeting-from-the-international-law-perspective-putting-aside-the-emotions-the-secretary-general-allegedly-violated-the-un-icc-relationship-agreement/.
Hryshko V. (2023, April 11). Prozristʹ pravosuddia u zoni ryzyku: yak zakonoproiekt No. 7033-d obmezhuie dostup do informatsii z sudovoho reiestru? [Transparency of justice at risk: how draft law No. 7033-d restricts access to information from the judicial register]. Ukrainska pravda [Ukrainian Truth]. https://www.pravda.com.ua/columns/2023/04/11/7397335/ [in Ukrainian].
Hryshko V., Gupta R., Koval D., Latsyba A. (2025, March 7). Truth Hounds Submission to the ICC Office of the Prosecutor’s Draft Policy on Environmental Crimes under the Rome Statute. https://truth-hounds.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/submission-to-the-icc-office.pdf.
Hryshko V., Kolesnyk A., Levkovska Z., Tymoshenko A., Vasylenko O. (2021). Domestic legislation and international law as tools of Russia’s lawfare against Ukraine and the West, International Law Clinic, Department of International and European Law, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
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