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Ukraine is asking the International Court of Justice to order "provisional measures" to halt "a full-scale, brutal invasion" by Russia.
Ukraine sued Russia in the United Nation’s highest court on Saturday, report the Associated Press, Reuters and a court press release. Although it can take years for suits filed in the court to go to trial, hearings on provisional measures can take place within weeks, the news stories point out.
Ukraine contends Russia made “a nonsensical and utterly unsupported claim” of Ukrainian genocide in its eastern regions of Luhansk and Donetsk to justify its invasion. Ukraine wants the court to resolve disagreements over the alleged acts of genocide and Russia’s justification for military action.
Ukraine contends the UN court has jurisdiction to resolve a dispute over the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which has been signed by both Ukraine and Russia.
“Russia has turned the Genocide Convention on its head—making a false claim of genocide as a basis for actions on its part that constitute grave violations of the human rights of millions of people across Ukraine,” says Ukraine’s application instituting proceedings.
“Russia’s lie is all the more offensive, and ironic, because it appears that it is Russia planning acts of genocide in Ukraine. Russia is intentionally killing and inflicting serious injury on members of the Ukrainian nationality—the actus reus of genocide under Article...
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