It will be difficult for the ICC to investigate the provocation in Bucha, the Foreign Ministry said

View of the building of the International Court of Justice in The Hague. File photoMOSCOW, April 19It will be difficult to conduct an investigation into the provocation in Bucha within the framework of the International Criminal Court (ICC), because neither Russia nor Ukraine are its members, Petr Ilyichev, director of the Department of International Organizations of the Russian Foreign Ministry, told RIA Novosti. about the ICC. But it will be difficult with the ICC, because neither Russia nor Ukraine are members of the International Criminal Court,» Ilyichev said. >MFA: Russia will not initiate UN investigation into events in Ukraine Ukraine also signed the Rome Statute in 2000, but also did not ratify it. The Russian Ministry of Defense previously stated that all photographs and video materials published by the Kiev regime, allegedly testifying to the «crimes» of the Russian military in the city of Bucha, Kiev region, are «another provocation.» As noted in the military department, during the time this settlement was under the control of the Russian Armed Forces, not a single local resident suffered from any violent actions. The ministry noted that all Russian units completely left Bucha on March 30, and departures from the city in the northern direction were not blocked, while the southern outskirts, including residential areas, were fired around the clock by Ukrainian troops from large-caliber artillery, tanks and multiple launch rocket systems. />A resident of Donbass recalled the inaction of the International Criminal CourtRussia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.