According to The New York Times, the ICC will open two cases against Russian officials for actions committed since the invasion of Ukraine. One year after the start of the first investigations, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, the British Karim Khan, “will ask the judges to approve these arrest warrants based on the evidence gathered in Ukraine.” “Some diplomats even believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin may be indicted,” says NYT
Neither Russia nor Ukraine are members of the International Criminal Court, but the government of Volodymyr Zelensky accepted the court’s jurisdiction. One year after the start of the first investigations, the ICC prosecutor, the British Karim Khan, “will ask the judges to approve these arrest warrants based on the evidence gathered in Ukraine.” Several Russians are accused of the mass kidnapping of Ukrainian children and the deliberate attack on civilian infrastructure.
According to the American newspaper The New York Timesthe ICC will open two cases against Russian officials for actions committed since the invasion of Ukraine and “will request arrest warrants against several people”, it would be “several Russians considered responsible for the mass kidnapping of Ukrainian children and the deliberate attack against Ukrainian civil infrastructure ».
“Some diplomats even believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin may be indicted, since the court does not grant immunity to a head of state for war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide,” adds the New York Times. It further notes that “the likelihood of a trial remains low, as Russia is unlikely to hand over the suspects to international justice.”
Volunteers carry the remains of the Bucha victims for examination at a morgue, April 13, 2022. © AP/Rodrigo Abd
For its part, the British newspaper Guardian, indicates that the CIP prosecutor, Karim Khan, has been to Ukraine “on three occasions to visit places, including Boutcha, where war crimes were allegedly committed.” In the same article it is indicated that Khan “will ask the judges to approve these arrest warrants based on the evidence gathered in Ukraine.”
Details of who is on the list of arrest warrants and when they would be issued are unknown.
Karim Khan (right), prosecutor of the Hague-based International Criminal Court, and Andriy Kostin (left), attorney general of Ukraine
Human Rights Watch concerned about Ukrainian orphans
“We must provide a family home, not rebuild orphanages” is the title of the 55-page report detailing the consequences of the Russian invasion for children left without families. According to the National Information Office of Ukraine, at least 16,200 of these children have been deported to Russia.
President Volodimir Zelensky accused the Putin government of practicing “kidnappings”, “forced adoptions” and “re-education”. For its part, Russia claims to be protecting “refugee” children.
The UN Convention defines the “forcible transfer of children from one group to another” as one of five acts that can be prosecuted as genocide.
Human Rights Watch is also concerned about the general situation of orphaned children in Ukraine as the country has more than 105,000 children in institutions, the “highest number in Europe after Russia,” the NGO notes.
Ukraine charges two Russian soldiers with multiple rapes
A four-year-old girl would have been sexually assaulted by two Russian snipers aged 28 and 32, according to the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office. These two men are also accused of gang raping the girl’s mother, pointing a gun at her. The allegations come amid widespread suspicions of abuse since the Russian invasion.
According to Ukrainian prosecutor’s files seen by the Reuters news agency, the incidents are part of a series of sexual crimes committed in March 2022 by soldiers of the 15th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade as they passed through Brovary, a suburb of Kiev. .
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