Ukraine launched a case in opposition to Russia on the United Nations’ highest courtroom accusing Moscow of planning genocide and asking for the courtroom to intervene to halt the invasion and order Russia to pay reparations.
The case filed on Sunday additionally asks the International Court of Justice, based mostly in The Hague, to point “provisional measures” ordering Moscow to “immediately suspend the military operations” that have been launched February 24.
The case says Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine based mostly on false claims of acts of genocide within the Luhansk and Donetsk areas of japanese Ukraine and now’s planning genocidal acts in Ukraine.
Ukraine “emphatically denies that genocide happened in the eastern regions” and says it filed the case “to establish that Russia has no lawful basis to take action in and against Ukraine for the purpose of preventing and punishing any purported genocide,” the courtroom stated in an announcement.
The courtroom will schedule a listening to quickly to listen to the provisional measures request.
The courtroom hears disputes between nations over issues of legislation, in contrast to the International Criminal Court, additionally based mostly in The Hague, that holds people criminally accountable for offences together with warfare crimes and crimes in opposition to humanity.
