German Attorney General Peter Frank has dampened hopes for quick successes in the prosecution of war crimes in the Ukraine war. “Please do not expect that we will have identified any accused tomorrow or the day after tomorrow,” Frank said on Monday at an annual press reception in Karlsruhe. In international criminal law, one needs “staying power,” he said. He drew parallels to the Syrian civil war, which began in 2011. It was not until 2019 that the first indictment was brought in Germany, he said. Ten years had passed before the first final judgement. Frank said that there were “no personal i…