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In one month it will be one year since Russia invaded Ukraine.
As genocide has been committed in Ukraine, both prisoners and civilians, there is a growing voice calling for Putin to be brought to justice as the main culprit of the war.
The United States has recently completed the enactment of related laws.
This is Reporter Lim Soo-geun.
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The missile attack on an apartment complex in Ukraine on the 14th,
More than 150 people, including dozens of children, were killed or seriously injured.
After another genocidal attack on unarmed civilians, Ukraine’s president reiterated that Putin should be punished.
[볼로디미르 젤렌스키 / 우크라이나 대통령 : 새해 전날 민간인을 겨냥한 수차례의 미사일 공격이 가해졌습니다. 이걸 자행한 건 사람도 아닙니다.]
There are many calls for President Putin to be punished as a war criminal for his attacks on civilians, but there is no way to force it.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ), a United Nations agency, is blocked by Russia’s veto, and the International Criminal Court (ICC), which has jurisdiction over war crimes, can proceed with trial only when Putin appears in court.
In December of last year, on the same day that President Zelensky, who had made a surprise visit to the United States, visited the US Congress and appealed for support, the US Senate passed a bill allowing the US to independently bring war crimes suspects to trial.
According to the ‘War Crimes Victims Justice Act’ enacted with full support from the ruling and opposition parties, the United States can punish the perpetrators of all war crimes committed around the world.
Up until now, Putin and others who committed war crimes once morest third countries might not be punished, but the enactment of the law made it possible.
[조 바이든 / 미국 대통령 : 부차에서 어떤 일이 벌어졌는지 보셨죠. 그게(부차 학살이) 푸틴이 전범이란 증거입니다.]
The U.S. Department of Justice has stressed that war crimes suspects will no longer find asylum in the United States.
Ukraine said that 9,000 civilians, including 400 children, have been killed since the Russian invasion.
This is YTN Lim Soo-geun.
YTN Lim Soo-geun (sglim@ytn.co.kr)
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