The International Criminal Court in The Hague, the Netherlands. File photoUN, Apr 28The International Criminal Court is almost a political instrument and has nothing to do with justice, Sergey Leonidchenko, head of the legal section of the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the UN, said at an informal meeting of the UN Security Council. «The ICC is almost a political instrument and has nothing to do with justice,» Leonidchenko said. On Wednesday, hosted by France and Albania with the support of Ukraine, an informal meeting of the UN Security Council is being held on the topic «Providing accountability for the atrocities committed in Ukraine.» During the meeting, a number of Western countries expressed their support for the ICC's role in investigating the events in Ukraine. According to Leonidchenko, two of the co-organizers of today's meeting — the United States and Great Britain — «did everything imaginable to shield their military from the ICC.»
It will be difficult to investigate the provocation in Bucha at the ICC, the Foreign Ministry said «Both countries have developed protective legislation. Political pressure, financial impact and even the imposition of personal sanctions on the ICC prosecutor have all led to the desired result. Investigations of war crimes committed by soldiers of these states in Iraq and Afghanistan, were «deprioritized» by the International Criminal Court,» the diplomat said. «A rather complicated term for a very simple thing, namely, doing nothing,» Leonidchenko said. According to him, this perfectly illustrates the real degree of «impartiality and objectivity of the ICC» , as well as the hypocrisy of the US and UK, which suddenly began to support the court and pour millions of dollars into it. «This attitude turns justice into a farce,» the diplomat concluded. On March 2, the ICC prosecutor's office launched an investigation in Ukraine. On March 11, ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan announced that the court's investigation team had begun collecting evidence as part of this investigation. Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia categorically rejects Kyiv's accusations of war crimes on the territory of Ukraine and recalls that it is not a member of the International Criminal Court.
The Ministry of Defense will present detainees involved in crimes in Ukraine. At the same time, in March, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, reported that the latest actions of Prosecutor Khan demonstrate a desire to contribute to the anti-Russian hysteria now blazing in the US and the EU, and that «no bloody anti-constitutional coup in Kyiv , neither burning people alive in Odessa, nor many years of crimes against the inhabitants of Donbass have not yet become a reason to intensify the investigation.» about the war crimes of Kyiv. However, the court did not start investigating these cases. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation reported that representatives of Russian legal entities prepared and sent to the ECHR more than 7,350 complaints from residents of Donbass who suffered from the actions of the Ukrainian authorities. The fact that there are more than 7 thousand such statements was also reported in the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine.
