Russia's war against Ukraine: the first court hearing in The Hague will take place today

The first session of the International Criminal Court in The Hague for the trial of the Russian war against Ukraine will take place on March 7.

It was stated by a member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence Fedir Venislavsky during TV marathon “Uarazom”.

"Today we already know that the first step to give a legal assessment of Russia's war crimes within the international community will be taken. There are several parallel processes that can be used to assess the crimes of Russia and its leadership in Ukraine," he said.

He reminded that the International Criminal Court assumed responsibility for war crimes, not for military crimes. At the initiative of ICC prosecutors the court has already begun collecting and recording all evidence of Russian crimes in Ukraine.

"The first session to outline further steps for recording and assessing crimes, preparing for a court hearing is taking place today. The ICC is governed by the Rome Statute. Unfortunately, Ukraine accepted the Rome Statute not conforming to the Constitution. Now the Verkhovna Rada, the Office of the President and the Ministry of Justice are working over a package of documents that will allow the ratification of the Rome Statute very quickly," Venislavsky explained.

The People's Deputy stresses that:

war crimes do not have a statute of limitations,

both those who give criminal orders and those who carry them out will be persecuted in any country that ratified the Rome Statute (it means almost all countries in Europe and in the civilized world).

"We will get the result in a few months, a year, or even several years, because it is a very careful work. But we will get the result in the form of specific verdicts of the International Criminal Court on Russian war criminals," he said.

Earlier it was reported that Ukraine collected evidence of terrible crimes of the Russian military against civilians every day.

We remind that 101-year-old Benjamin Ferencz, who was a prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials, thinks that Putin should be convicted of crimes against humanity committed by Russian troops in Ukraine.