Due to the ferocity of the Russian invasion, “which attacks civilians, indiscriminately, whether they are Russian-speaking or not”, Kiev asked the court to take interim measures to force Moscow to stop the attack.
On February 24, shortly after ordering the attack on Ukraine, Vladimir Putin announced the start of the war in a television message: “We have to stop this atrocity, this genocide in Donbas,” he said by way of justification. This Monday, the Russian ‘casus belli’ arrived at the Court of The Hague, where a delegation from Kiev defended that the Russian president based his attack “on a lie”. They also asked the court to take urgent measures to stop the military operation in which Moscow “is attacking civilians indiscriminately.” Russia, for its part, did not attend the first session of the process.
For more than three hours, the Ukrainian delegation presented evidence that Kiev “never committed any genocide against the Russian-speaking population” in the Donbass region. They assure that Putin’s narrative is based on “lies and manipulated information.” Since Russia invaded the Republic of Crimea and the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, “Ukraine’s actions have been monitored by the UN,” the Ukrainian representatives defended. Moscow, on the other hand, “has supported armed groups that have attacked and terrorized the population of these regions,” they noted.
Due to the ferocity of the Russian invasion, “which attacks civilians, indiscriminately, whether they are Russian-speaking or not”, Kiev asked the court to take interim measures to force Moscow to stop the attack. “As we speak, thousands of civilians – women, children … – are dying under Russian bombs and missiles,” they concluded in an emotional intervention before the high court. “That is why we ask that they put an end to an invasion that will have irreparable consequences and that wants to destroy Ukraine and its people.”
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