Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba believes that Russia’s claim against Ukraine with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) was filed for propaganda purposes and has no chance of being satisfied.
“Without interfering with the ECHR justice, I can absolutely assure that this court claim has no chance of being satisfied, and it was filed by Russia solely for propaganda purposes. This request will not have any other results, except for information noise and the time spent by the court on writing the answer,” said Kuleba at a joint briefing with Minister of Foreign Economy and Foreign Affairs of Hungary Peter Szijjártó in the JFO zone on July 22.
Earlier on July 22, Russia for the first time applied to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) with an interstate complaint against Ukraine due to “a number of violations, including the death of civilians, the suppression of freedom of speech and the water blockade of Crimea”. In its complaint, Moscow also puts responsibility for the crash of the Malaysian Boeing MH17 in Donbas on Ukraine blaming it for not closing the airspace over the war zone and not investigating this circumstance.
