Russian commanders found guilty of committing war crime In Ukraine Can be jailed in Britain Dominic Rabo has warned.
The deputy prime minister said commanders on the ground as well as in the Kremlin, who are War crimes must ‘know that they cannot be acted upon with impunity’.
Mr Raab, speaking outside the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, said Britain would provide aid in bringing Russian war criminals – including the Russian president Vladimir Putin – for justice.
He said that for those Russian commanders who were found guilty of war crimes, they would not only find themselves in court in The Hague, but also ‘in a prison cell’.
Mr Raab also referred to the cases of war criminals Radovan Karadzik and former Liberian President Charles Taylor, who are serving their sentences in British prisons.
The Deputy Prime Minister said that Russian commanders on the ground, as well as in the Kremlin, who are committing war crimes, should be aware that they cannot act with impunity.
Mr Raab, speaking outside the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, said Britain would assist in bringing Russian war criminals to justice – including Russian President Vladimir Putin. Image: The International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, March 31, 2021 (file photo)
Firefighters work on a building destroyed by Russian shelling on Monday in Kharkov, Ukraine
‘Russian commanders who have committed war crimes should be aware that they cannot act with impunity. Like Radovan Karadzik and Charles Taylor, his actions put him at risk of going to a jail cell,’ Mr Raab said.
Former Bosnian Serb leader Karadzik was convicted of genocide in Bosnia in 2016 at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, while Taylor was convicted in 2013 of abetting war crimes including rape and mutilation in Sierra Leone.
Mr Raab said the UK fully supported the ICC investigation into alleged war crimes in Ukraine.
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, ICC’s chief prosecutor Karim Khan said he had launched a formal investigation into possible atrocities on Ukrainian soil since 2014, when Moscow-based separatists seized part of the country’s Far East. Had taken.
The ICC investigates and, where necessary, tries individuals charged with the most serious offenses of concern to the international community. Such crimes include genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and crime Why aggression?
Putin’s army has been accused of committing a war crime after shelling indiscriminately on Ukrainian cities, killing thousands of civilians and injuring many others.
Kyiv, its Western allies, and the United Nations have said there is growing evidence that Putin’s forces are committing crimes, including attacking civilians with “missiles, heavy artillery shells, rockets and air strikes”. is included.
Firefighters work on a building destroyed by Russian shelling on Monday in Kharkov, Ukraine
Ukrainian soldiers patrol the streets after security measures were tightened due to ongoing Russian attacks in Odessa, Ukraine, on Monday
“It is important to send a deterrent message to grassroots commanders in Ukraine and Moscow that if they commit war crimes they could end up not only in a court docket in The Hague but in a prison cell,” Raab said. he said. Journalists after meeting Khan in The Hague on Monday.
‘Commanders on the ground – who are receiving illegal orders as well as those in the Kremlin – need to know [they will be held to account],’ he told.
Mr Raab said for this to be a credible message, the UK and other countries needed to extend ‘extra support’ to the ICC to fulfill its mandate in Ukraine. He did not give specific information.
The Deputy Prime Minister also said that the UK will provide a package of financial and technical assistance to the ICC to investigate possible war crimes in Ukraine.
government too Providing police and military analysis and specialist IT support, as well as legal expertise to collect and preserve evidence for the ICC.
Putin’s army has been accused of committing a war crime after shelling indiscriminately on Ukrainian cities, killing thousands of civilians and injuring many others. Image: On Monday, a building was destroyed by Russian airstrikes in the city of Okhtyrka in the Sumy region of Ukraine
When he announced the investigation, Khan said his office was scrambling for resources and needed everything from investigators to forensic language experts and psycho-social support.
Mr Raab said: ‘Right now there is a huge emphasis on the preservation of evidence of war crimes which may or may not be there in various different reports, but also on what is in line as a response to Putin. is about to come. To the situation in a more barbaric way, to stutter and stumble, that he is driving on the ground in the context of his military campaign.’
Poland’s foreign minister today accused Russia of “state terrorism” targeting civilians, schools, hospitals and other civilian infrastructure in an attempt to “break the spirit of the Ukrainian people”.
Zbigniew Rau told the UN Security Council that Russia’s “unprovoked, unreasonable and pre-planned aggression” against Ukraine was “poorly designed and executed (and) proved to be a strategic and tactical failure.”
“But instead of preventing further unnecessary deaths in its own ranks, the Kremlin changed its strategy,” he said.
In an attempt to break Ukrainian resistance, ‘the offensive force began targeting civilian populations and infrastructure’ in violation of the Geneva Conventions and international humanitarian law.
ICC launches probe into alleged Russian war crimes Britain and 37 other countries have sent Russia to the International Criminal Court for its destructive and illegal invasion of ukraine,
Britain’s Office of Foreign Affairs, Commonwealth and Development said the referral was the largest in the court’s history.
Countries include all EU member states, as well as Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, Switzerland, and several Latin American countries.
Mr Raab also declined to say whether the resources offered by Britain would be earmarked only for Ukraine or whether they could also be used for some of the ICC’s ongoing 16 investigations and trials.
He rejected any suggestion that such financial support for a specific investigation could unbalance the court’s caseload.
There are rules and provisions to avoid any notion of bias. The court is completely independent,’ he said.
Meanwhile, the EU’s foreign policy chief says the 27-nation bloc is finalizing its new round of sanctions against Russia for its “barbaric” invasion of Ukraine.
Josep Borrell said on Monday that a fourth package of tough measures would target Russia’s market access, membership in international financial institutions and the steel and energy sectors.
On Monday, a Russian airstrike on the capital Kyiv killed at least two people and injured at least two people after an apartment building caught fire.
A town councilor for Brovari, east of Kyiv, was also killed in fighting there as shells fell on the cities of Irpin, Buka and Hostomel.
Ukrainian officials said two more people were killed and seven were injured after a fire at an airplane factory by the Russian military in Kyiv.
The airstrikes hit residential buildings near the important southern city of Mykolaiv, as well as the eastern city of Kharkiv.