Forty-one countries have appealed to the International Criminal Court in support of Ukraine, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Iryna Venediktova, said.
“The Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine has united the international community and is extremely united internally. Forty-one countries have appealed to the International Criminal Court in support of Ukraine. We are working on creating an international investigative group with partner countries,” Venediktova wrote on Twitter.
The Prosecutor General added that ten countries have already started their own investigations regarding the war in Ukraine. Besides our country, those are Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Estonia, Germany, Sweden, Latvia, Norway, and France.
"The global legal coalition of justice is growing!" Irina Venediktova said.
Earlier, the International Criminal Court in Hague started working on collecting evidence as part of the investigation of Russia’s war crimes against Ukraine.
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Ahmad Khan (UK), himself initiated the investigation of Russia’s crimes against Ukraine. The occupier’s actions he considers “war crimes” and “crimes against humanity.”
He mentioned that Ukraine is not a member-state of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, so it can not submit the situation to his office.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine believes that Russia’s military and political leadership will definitely stand before the International Criminal Court and answer for each crime committed. It will be the Nuremberg trials of the XXI century.