Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleba. File photoMOSCOW, Aug 3Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba said that the International Criminal Court (ICC) cannot apply the article «aggression» specifically to the case of Ukraine and the Russian Federation. he can judge whether it is aggression. But in practice, purely for legal reasons, he cannot apply this article specifically to the case of Ukraine and Russia,» Kuleba was quoted as saying by Ukrinform.
Zelensky demanded that the UN introduce the term «terrorist state»According to him, there is a problem of institutional selfishness both in the issue of the International Criminal Court and in the issue of creating a special tribunal. The minister noted that Ukraine's partners urge not to create a special tribunal, since there is an ICC so as not to create an alternative to it. «What is more important — the interests of the ICC, which does not want any temporary alternatives to itself, or justice, for which the ICC exists? that they are both for justice and for the ICC,» the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry added.In Kyiv, the only condition for the cessation of hostilities was called. Kuleba previously reported that he intended to ask the office of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, the European Commission, and the government of the Netherlands to create a special international tribunal for Russia. Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation Konstantin Kosachev said earlier that the Ukrainian initiative to create a tribunal for Russia lacks an international legal basis. Russia 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 Kyiv 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 the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, as of March 25, they have completed the main tasks of the first stage — they have significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
