Ukraine wants the Іnternational Criminal Court to investigate all alleged recent war crimes in Crimea and eastern Ukraine, Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said in an interview, broadening an existing probe.
Ukraine has already given the global court the authority to investigate crimes on its territory from November 21, 2013, to February 22, 2014, the period leading up to the fall of Ukraine’s former president Viktor Yanukovych.
Russia annexed Crimea soon after, and later in 2014 fighting erupted in eastern Ukraine between Kyiv’s forces and pro-Russian separatists. Kyiv accuses Russia of sending arms and troops to aid the rebels, which Moscow denies.
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Source: Voice of America
