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VISHHOROD, UkraineFebruary 28 (Reuters) – International A crime The court’s chief prosecutor was in Ukraine on Tuesday to investigate Russia’s campaign of missile and drone attacks on energy and other infrastructure that have killed hundreds of civilians and left millions without electricity and water.
Russia says they are legitimate strikes aimed at weakening the enemy’s army, but Ukraine uses them as a means of intimidating ordinary people.
Additional protocols formed by the Geneva Conventions and international courts state that military the parties involved in the conflict “civilian objects and military must distinguish between “objectives” and attacks on civilian objects are prohibited.
“In general, we of Ukraine we see a clear pattern in terms of the number, scale and breadth of attacks against electricity networks and we need to look at why this is happening; are they legitimate targets or not?’ Prosecutor of the ICC Karim Khan said.
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Khan in late November Russia spoke to a small group of reporters in front of a heavily damaged residential building in Vyshgorod, north of Kiev, where a missile hit killed eight civilians and injured many others.
It is not clear whether the missile was aimed at a nearby electrical installation and could not reach its target.
“We need to find out what pattern, if any, it exhibits because these are not isolated incidents.”
After Russia began a large-scale occupation for more than a year, the ICC and of Ukraine the work of its own legal system is enormous.
More than 70,000 claimed military crimes have been reported, the vast majority of which will be tried in local courts.
‘TO TANGO TWO’
of the ICC in The Hague Ukraine has jurisdiction to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide committed by both sides on its territory, and is expected to focus on high-profile suspects. Such cases can take years to build.
Earlier in Kiev the president Vladimir Zelensky Khan, who met with, said that due to his last year’s work in Ukraine, he is still being held by the BCM imprisonment decision was not made, but he defended the court and his Ukrainian partners.
“What people want is not Pyrrhic victories,” he said when asked if the process was too slow to satisfy the desire of many Ukrainians for justice.
“As a prosecutor, we court we are officers. We are not here to get applause with a magic trick. Whenever we act, (people) of this political they must make sure that there is no process.”
Accompanying Khan to the bomb site of Ukraine Chief Prosecutor Andrey Kostin appreciated the cooperation between his offices and the ICC office.
“We are truly united in our common goal … to ensure justice for all Ukrainians, for Ukraine as a country,” Kostin said, standing in front of a large, debris-strewn bomb crater.
More than 99 percent of them crime will be held responsible and will be tried in Ukrainian courts”.
Kostin’s office said Russia had carried out tens of thousands of attacks on infrastructure and civilians that had no military basis.
Western and Ukrainian authorities, in particular free done Russia evidence collected so far in the territories occupied by the forces tortureexecution, mandatory pointing to widespread abuses, including deportation and sexual violence.
Russia denies such accusations and says some of the cited evidence is fabricated.
Moscow has also accused the Ukrainian military of abuses in Russian-held areas in the east, including killing prisoners of war and firing on civilians.
Khan told Reuters that he had tried to contact the Russian government several times to discuss his work in Ukraine.
“I received evidence from the Ukrainians. “I have not received proof from the Russians,” he said. “If you have something, give it. I’m ready to take it and deal with them, but it takes two to tango.”
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2023-02-28 22:44:35
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