Ukraine has filed a lawsuit against Russia before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the UN’s highest court based in The Hague, for the armed intervention launched on the 24th, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reported on Sunday.
“Ukraine has filed its claim against Russia with the ICJ. Russia must answer for manipulating the notion of genocide to justify aggression. We demand an urgent decision ordering Russia to cease its military activity now and expect the trials to start next week.”, Zelensky wrote on his twitter.
Hours earlier, in a television message to the population, the Ukrainian president stated that “what the invaders do in Kharkov, Okhtyrka, Kiev, Odessa and other cities and towns deserves to be judged by an international court.”
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused 368,000 people to have fled that country, according to the latest data from the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
To them must be added 160,000 internally displaced persons, while at least 64 civilians have died and some 180 were injured, according to United Nations humanitarian agencies.
The main flows of refugees have been registered in neighboring countries such as Moldova, Romania or Poland, the latter country where the border authorities have reported the arrival of some 100,000 Ukrainians.
Source: Gestion
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