With International Criminal Court set to prosecute Russian citizens for war crimes in Ukraine, Russia's foreign minister deflects with Donbas falsehoods.
The ICC will reportedly seek warrants against Russian citizens connected to Russia’s abduction of Ukrainian children and Russia’s systematic targeting of civilian infrastructure in Ukraine.
"We do not recognize this court [the ICC], we do not recognize the jurisdiction of this court...” Lavrov said. “In general, we constantly recall that for many years no international judicial bodies — even those that we do not recognize, or other members of the international community — bothered to pay attention to the destruction of civilian infrastructure, to the killings of civilians that Ukrainian nationalists staged in Donbass.
While Russia refuses to recognize the ICC’s jurisdiction, the Hague-based court can investigate and prosecute certain crimes when a country cannot — or will not — investigate those crimes on its own.The ICC But Ukraine has twice accepted the court’s jurisdiction over alleged crimes covered by the Rome Statute occurring on its territory.of the situation in Ukraine, saying “there is a reasonable basis to believe that both alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity have been committed” there. He said his probe would “also encompass any new alleged crimes falling within the jurisdiction of my Office that are committed by any party to the conflict on any part of the territory of Ukraine.
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