At the beginning of March 2026, the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) on alleged core international crimes in Ukraine, established in March 2022 (➝ eucrim 1/2024, pp. 8–9), had its mandate extended by another two years. The aim of the JIT is to facilitate investigations and prosecutions in the relevant Member States as well as any measures that may be brought before the ICC. The JIT members from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Ukraine, together with partners Eurojust, Europol, and the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC-OTP), will now focus more strongly on the illegal transfer of Ukrainian children and their deportation to Russia and Belarus.