Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Harris said that the international community has both a moral and a strategic interest in pursuing those crimes
, pointing to a danger of other authoritarian governments taking advantage if international rules are undermined.
“Russian authorities have forcibly deported hundreds of thousands of people, from Ukraine to Russia, including children,” Harris said. “They have cruelly separated children from their families.” “In the case of Russia’s actions in Ukraine, we have examined the evidence, we know the legal standards, and there is no doubt,” she said. “These are crimes against humanity.”
Harris told the annual gathering of security and defence officials from around the world: “Let us all agree – on behalf of all the victims, both known and unknown, justice must be served.”“No nation is safe in a world where one country can violate the sovereignty and territorial integrity of another, where crimes against humanity are committed with impunity, where a country with imperialist ambitions can go unchecked,” Harris added.
Asked on the sidelines of the event about the U.S. determination, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba replied that “Russia waged a genocidal war against Ukrainians because they do not recognize our identity and they do not think we deserve to exist as a sovereign nation.”
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