Russian Foreign Ministry building. File photoMOSCOW, Apr 29Russia is not obliged to cooperate with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in connection with the «investigation» in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. announced on April 25, the connection of the Prosecutor's Office of the International Criminal Court to the Joint Investigation Group of Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine, created under the auspices of Eurojust.It will be difficult to investigate the provocation in Bucha at the ICC, the Foreign Ministry said. «As for the ICC prosecutor's office, this step demonstrates that it does not even try to maintain even a semblance of impartiality and objectivity and enthusiastically joins the process in which the perpetrators are clearly appointed in advance. If someone still had doubts that the ICC is a body fulfilling political orders and has nothing to do with independent justice, then the new «creative» format of work makes everything extremely clear,» Zakharova said in a statement on the agency's website. .She noted that the composition of the investigation team suggests that nothing but denigration of Russia can be expected. «We remind you that Russia does not participate in the Rome Statute of the ICC and is not obliged to cooperate with it. Nevertheless, we will continue to closely monitor how this body operates,» Zakharova added. The ICC has a solid array of data — more than 3 thousand materials on crimes against the inhabitants of Donbass, but so far there has not been any clear reaction from the Hague justice to the facts presented. The Kremlin has repeatedly stated that Russia categorically rejects Kyiv's accusations of war crimes in Ukraine and recalls that she is not a member of the International Criminal Court, with which she was called to cooperate. The Russian Federation considers the ICC a political instrument. Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry, commenting on the idea to conduct an international investigation of war crimes in Ukraine, said that Russia does not trust international investigators. The Russian Federation has repeatedly noted that Kyiv and Western countries turn a blind eye to the crime in Odessa in 2014, as well as to neo-Nazism that is growing in Ukraine. In addition, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation is investigating many cases of crimes against the civilian population and military personnel of the Russian Federation in the Donbass and Ukraine. war crimes in 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 Ministry of Justice of Ukraine also reported that there were more than 7,000 such applications.
