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Ukraine has applied to the International Court of Justice, which is located in The Hague (Netherlands), with a formal lawsuit against Russia. Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky announced this today on his Instagram account.
According to him, in the lawsuit, Ukraine demanded “to bring Russia to justice for distorting the concept of genocide to justify aggression,” and also called on “the court to immediately order the Russian Federation to cease hostilities and schedule hearings next week.”
Earlier on Sunday, Zelensky said that Kyiv did not agree to negotiations with Russia in Belarus, which Moscow proposed to hold in Gomel, but was ready for dialogue at other venues.
For his part, US President Joe Biden called the US sanctions against Russia an alternative to World War III or a real war with Russia. The head of the White House threatened that Russia, which is conducting a military operation in Ukraine, “will pay a serious price for this both in the short term and in the long term, especially in the long term.”
Recall, on February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin made an emergency appeal to the Russians and announced a special military operation in the Donbass. In his speech, he stated that “circumstances require decisive action from Russia” and stressed that “Russia will not allow Ukraine to have nuclear weapons.”
In response to Russia’s actions, Western countries (USA, Canada, European Union, Great Britain, Japan) announced new, tougher sanctions against the Russian Federation, including financial and economic ones.
Sanctions, in particular, hit Russian banks, including Sberbank, VTB, Novikombank, FC Otkritie and Sovcombank.
Later, the EU countries and the United States agreed to disconnect Russian banks that fell under sanctions from the international system of interbank transactions and information exchange SWIFT. In addition, it was decided to freeze the assets of the Bank of Russia, which will create difficulties for its use of international reserves. EU countries also pledged to take steps to limit the sale of citizenship — the so-called “golden passports” that allow wealthy Russians connected to the Russian government to become citizens of EU states and access their financial systems.
You can follow the chronicle of events around Ukraine on February 27 here.
Source: Rosbalt
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