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Ministry of Justice of Ukraine initiates a criminal trial of Vladimir Putin

01:51, 11.03.2017

Consideration of the claim of Ukraine against Russia in the UN International Court of Justice in The Hague will allow to begin the criminal trial of the Russian President Vladimir Putin. This was announced by the Minister of Justice, Pavel Petrenko, on the air of one of the Ukrainian TV channels. 

Petrenko noted that the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice ‘has managed to collect a large amount of evidence of crimes committed by the Russian Federation’, which was sent to the International Court of Justice. 

‘In fact, we have collected a calendar diary of human rights violations by the Russian Federation that were recorded in the Crimea and Donbass ... Despite certain skeptical comments by some experts on the duration of the process, I am convinced that this is the trial that will ultimately lead to a decision in the benefit of Ukraine and the criminal trial of Putin and his entourage,’ said Petrenko.

Last night, the Russian Foreign Ministry published a comment in connection with the hearings before the UN International Court of Justice. It states that ‘Ukraine uses the Court as a platform for voicing politicized accusations that go beyond the jurisdiction of the Court’. In addition, the commentary said that the Russian side had provided evidence that Ukraine had not properly substantiated its claims. 

Today the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Klimkin proposed to abandon the «Norman format». The day before, the representative of Ukraine in the Tripartite Contact Group at the negotiations in Minsk, Olga Aivazovskaya, confirmed that Ukraine had deliberately delayed the issue of local elections in Donbass during the negotiations in Minsk, at least since November 2016, so as not to comply with the paragraphs on amending the Ukrainian Constitution and to prevent the holding of elections in Donbass. In response to this statement, the adviser to the Head of the LPR and the official representative of the Republic at the Minsk negotiations, Rodion Miroshnik invited the guarantors of the Minsk Agreements to impose sanctions on Kiev.

According to: Информационное Агенство Новороссия