Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said that the lawsuit filed to the United Nations International Court of Justice (ICJ, The Hague) was the first step of Kyiv to hold Russia liable for crimes committed by the country against Ukrainian citizens in annexed Crimea and Donbas. The task of Ukraine is to prove demonstratively this and hold Moscow liable.
“Our team in the ICJ is fighting for fair punishment of those who are guilty of deaths of thousands due to terrorists’ attacks in Ukrainian Donbas, who supplied tanks, modern artillery, multiple launch rocket systems, armored vehicles, arms, missiles used to shell Avdiyivka, Kramatorsk, Mariupol, a civil bus in Volnovakha and who hit MH-17,” Poroshenko said at a meeting with the leaders of the Ukrainian delegation at hearings in the Hague court on March 16.
At a meeting with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin, Justice Minister Pavlo Petrenko, Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko and SBU Head Vasyl Hrytsak, Poroshenko thanks best lawyers from the Foreign Ministry, Justice Ministry, Prosecutor General’s Office and the General Staff of the Armed Forces, Defense Ministry for preparing the lawsuit.
“Unfortunately, this lawsuit is not quick. It will take not months, but years. We expect that the relevant measures will be taken and they would help to shut down new supplies of weapons and terrorists,” he said.
