Chief Prosecutor of International Criminal Court will try to establish contact with кussia
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Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, said he would try to establish contact with russia and that the investigation into russia's war crimes in Ukraine would be objective and impartial.
This was reported by Interfax-Ukraine with reference to Khan's statement at a joint briefing with Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova in Kyiv on April 14.
"I will try to establish contact with russia… I will continue to work closely with Ukrainian law enforcement… I will try to reach russia for the third time… But, as I said, the first victim of the war was the truth," Khan said.
The ICC prosecutor noted that he personally visited Bucha and Borodianka, Kyiv region, where mass crimes of the russian occupiers were recorded, there was also a team of experts, and now it is necessary to "do everything possible to ensure justice and responsibility."
"All parties to the conflict must abide by the rules of the Rome Statute. We have every reason to believe that crimes have been committed in Ukraine that falls under the jurisdiction of the ICC.
It is too early to talk about the evidence, the evidence will speak for itself… We will accept all the evidence and check it," Khan concluded.
Note
On March 2, the International Criminal Court launched an investigation into possible crimes committed in Ukraine.
Specialists from France arrived in Ukraine on April 11 to assist the Ukrainian authorities in investigating war crimes committed by the russian military.
