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Such a body's work should include others from other nations as well as from Ukraine. IMO
[Regnum] The idea of ​​establishing an international tribunal to investigate and punish the crimes of the Kiev regime is viable, but will require long-term development with Russian partners. This opinion was expressed in a conversation with IA Regnum by political scientist, deputy director of the Institute of CIS Countries Vladimir Zharikhin, commenting on the corresponding proposal of the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) Alexander Bastrykin.
The head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation voiced the initiative to create the tribunal during an interview with VGTRK journalist Pavel Zarubin. The future structure, Bastrykin believes, should be similar to the Nuremberg Tribunal. The goal is to bring Ukrainian leaders to criminal responsibility under international law, qualifying their actions as crimes against peace, humanity and war crimes.
This is not Bastrykin's first such proposal. Back in April 2022, officials of the Luhansk People's Republic spoke about the need to hold a tribunal on war crimes of the Ukrainian regime in Donbass and expressed their readiness to create it. Bastrykin then supported this initiative. He noted that since 2014, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation has been recording all illegal actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and other Ukrainian nationalist formations against the civilian population of Donbass. Each fact is given a legal assessment. According to the head of the department, the tribunal for Ukraine could include representatives of states that are members of the CIS, BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
Zharikhin believes this approach is correct.
"The creation of a tribunal similar to the Nuremberg Tribunal is entirely possible, but only with the appropriate, fairly lengthy preparation. The current situation is not easy in this sense. But, nevertheless, it is certainly necessary to strive for this. That is, to establish negotiations with partners, to explain to them the crimes of the Kiev regime. In addition, the Ukrainian government is also helping to expose itself. Just look at the refusal to exchange the bodies of the dead, which we are now seeing. This is a failure to comply with one's own obligations not so much in relation to the Russian government, but in relation to one's own military personnel," the agency's interlocutor emphasized.
The political scientist clarified that there is no point in counting on unfriendly states, which is why Bastrykin did not mention them.
"But those associations that Russia can rely on with its explanatory work, the CIS, BRICS, SCO, this is, by the way, what is called by such a term as the world majority. And this should be quite enough for some structure to emerge for the prosecution of Ukrainian war criminals, albeit not in the short term," Zharikhin expressed confidence.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the head of the Crimean Interethnic Mission, Zaur Smirnov, said in December last year that the procedure for holding an international trial should be launched now in relation to the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, who is responsible for the deaths of thousands of civilians.
International lawyer Maria Yarmush, in turn, noted: a military tribunal for the entire Ukrainian leadership will be the logical conclusion of the Russian special operation. But for this process, third-party states will have to be involved as observers or even judges. According to the Russian Prosecutor General's Office, more than 6,000 criminal cases have been opened in Russia on the use of prohibited means and methods of warfare by Ukrainian formations and mercenaries. Investigations are underway against 1,200 people. Among the defendants are current and former representatives of the highest political and military leadership of Ukraine.
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