Lithuania has called on the international criminal court (ICC) in The Hague to open an investigation into potential war crimes committed by Russia and Belarus in Ukraine.
Lithuania’s prime minister, Ingrida Simonyte, told the Washington Post: “What Putin is doing is just a murder and nothing else, and I hope he will be in The Hague.”
With evidence mounting of Russia’s use of indiscriminate cluster munitions on Ukrainian cities, and the leveling of residential buildings in Kharkiv in particular, the government in Kyiv is also preparing a case against Moscow to take to The Hague.
The ICC prosecutor, Karim Khan, is expected to open an investigation in the coming days. Khan, a British lawyer, issued a statement on Friday recalling that Ukraine had given the court the authority to investigate war crimes since 2014.
He said his office “remains fully committed to the prevention of atrocity crimes and to ensuring that anyone responsible for such crimes is held accountable”, adding he would make a more detailed statement on his return from a work trip to Bangladesh.
Ukraine has also taken Russia to the international court of justice (ICJ) for having launched an invasion on the pretext of false claims of genocide perpetrated against the country’s Russian speakers.
David Bosco, an expert on international justice at Indiana University said the ICJ submission “is kind of a symbolic move by Ukraine”.
“That’s not going to yield very much because it’s not actually clear that ICJ is going...
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