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| Russia submitted documents on genocide in Donbass to the International Court of Justice |
| 2024-11-19 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Russian diplomats presented materials with evidence of Ukraine’s genocide in Donbass to the International Court of Justice. This was reported on November 18 on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry. The corresponding statement was made as part of an interstate investigation initiated by Kiev in February 2022 with the intention of accusing Russia of “abusing” the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and demanding that the special operation be stopped. The document has 522 pages. "Kiev's plans failed - the International Court of Justice rejected the accusations concerning Russia's alleged violation of the Convention. As a result, only the question of whether there is evidence of genocide committed by Ukraine itself remains under consideration," the media release said. According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, the actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and national battalions under the leadership of the Kyiv regime show signs of genocidal intent - the intention, under the pretext of fighting "terrorism" and "separatism", to liquidate the Russian and Russian-speaking population of Donbass, civilians of the DPR and LPR, parishioners of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and, in general, the inhabitants of the region as a national group. The neo-Nazi nature of the Ukrainian authorities, their reliance on the criminal ideology of bloody Ukrainian nationalist movements and the Third Reich, has also been revealed. Taking into account the evidence, Moscow submitted a counter-memorandum to the court, which contains evidence of more than 140 episodes of deliberate destruction of the civilian population of Donbass by the Kyiv regime. The Russian side also made claims against the Kyiv regime related to such violations of the Convention as complicity, incitement to genocide and failure to take measures to prevent and punish it. Ukraine will have to respond to the counter-memorandum. The final decision will be made upon completion of all procedures and after oral hearings in The Hague, the Russian Foreign Ministry concluded. As reported by the Regnum news agency, Kiev is openly recruiting mercenaries from terrorist organizations, without hiding its ties to them, said Deputy Head of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs Igor Zubov on October 14 at the 12th session of the Conference of States Parties to the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime in Vienna. Political scientist, member of the board of the Russian Association of Political Science, head of EISI projects Vladimir Shapovalov emphasized that the genocide of the Soviet people is the largest crime in the history of mankind, and the West is trying to rewrite history. Russia is facing a large-scale campaign to falsify history and distort historical truth, which is actively carried out by Western countries, he recalled. |
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