14.03.2023
It is expected that even arrest warrants will be processed. The causes would be for kidnapping Ukrainian children and attacking the civilian infrastructure of the invaded country.
An American newspaper report The New York Times ensures this Tuesday (14.03.2023) that the International Criminal Court will open at least two war crimes cases once morest Russian officials linked to the invasion of Ukraine -launched in February 2021-, and will also process arrest warrants once morest several people.
The accusations are for kidnapping Ukrainian children and deliberately attacking the civilian infrastructure of the invaded country, the newspaper said, citing as sources officials who have been related to these decisions and who were not authorized to speak publicly regarding them. These are the first international charges to be filed since the start of the Russian attack.
Chief prosecutor Karim Khan must present his charges before a panel of investigating judges, who before issuing arrest warrants will decide whether legal standards have been met or whether investigators need more evidence. Research has provided evidence that Russia kidnapped Ukrainian children and teenagers and sent them to Russian re-education camps, and also deliberately attacked Ukrainian civilian infrastructure.
Attorney General Karim Khan and Ukrainian Attorney General Andriy Kostin, during a visit to a building attacked by the Russians in Vyshhorod, on the outskirts of kyiv.
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New York Times he affirms that it is not clear who is sought to accuse. Another source, this time quoted by the Archyde.com agency, maintains that the cases might be opened as soon as possible and that they might also include accusations of genocide. Consulted on the subject, the prosecutor’s office limited itself to saying that it does not refer in public to “the details related to the ongoing investigations.”
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov recalled that Russia does not recognize the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court. “This is how we treat this matter,” he added. And while it is true that Moscow does not have to comply with arrest warrants within its territory, the opening of war crimes cases will further deepen the diplomatic isolation of the Russian regime and make it more difficult for defendants to travel outside Russia.
Although Ukraine has already initiated actions once morest Moscow at the ICC, this court can only judge crimes of aggression once morest another country if the responsible state is one of the signatories of the treaty that prompted its creation. On the other hand, The Hague can prosecute war crimes and crimes once morest humanity that Russian forces may have committed in Ukraine, but it has no jurisdiction to prosecute the decision to invade that country, which makes it very difficult to sit Russian Vladimir on the bench. Putin.
DZC (EFE, Archyde.com)