Citizens of Mariupol walk along the city street. File photoUN, Apr 28Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Karim Khan, who is also investigating the events in Ukraine, said that he does not take the side of Kyiv or the side of Moscow. «I have no agenda. I am not for Russia and not against Russia. I not for Ukraine and not against Ukraine. This is a matter of politics. We are in favor of the law,» Khan told reporters, adding that he plans to visit Ukraine again. UN on Ukraine that the ICC «is only a political tool and has nothing to do with justice.» The ICC prosecutor's office launched an investigation in Ukraine on March 2. ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan said on March 11 that the court's investigative team had begun collecting evidence as part of this investigation.Fake news will not save nationalists and mercenaries in Ukraine, diplomat saidPress Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov stated 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. At the same time, in March, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova reported that Prosecutor Khan's latest actions demonstrate a desire to contribute to the anti-Russian hysteria now blazing in the US and the EU, and that «neither the bloody anti-constitutional coup in Kyiv, nor the burning of people alive in Odessa, nor the many years of crimes against the inhabitants of Donbass until now have not become a reason to intensify the investigation.» According to the LPR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, over the eight years of the conflict in the Donbass, the LPR and the DPR filed more than 3,000 lawsuits about Kyiv's war crimes with the ECtHR and the International Criminal Court. 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 Ministry of Justice of Ukraine also reported that there were more than 7,000 such statements.
