Bastrykin: We need to create a tribunal in Ukraine

The head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, considers it necessary to create an international tribunal, which will give a legal assessment of the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donbass. He stated this in an interview with Rossiy newspaper.

"It cannot be ruled out that in the future, following the example of the former Yugoslavia, Kosovo or other countries, an international tribunal in Ukraine will be created, which will give a legal assessment of the actions of officials and military personnel of Ukraine in the southeast of this country," Bastrykin said in an interview with Russian newspaper.

He noted that “these crimes” under certain conditions can be considered by the International Criminal Court in The Hague. "The Roman Statute of the International Criminal Court allows us to extend the jurisdiction of this court, including crimes committed in the territory of states that are not participants in the statute," Bastrykin emphasized.

He also said that more than 50 criminal cases are in the administration of the IC management department in Ukraine. "These are cases on the facts of genocide, numerous unknown disappearance, abductions of people, murders, obstruction of journalistic activities, calls for unleashing aggressive war, rehabilitation of Nazism and other crimes," Bastrykin said.

On July 14, Malaysia introduced a draft resolution to the UN Security Council on the creation of the Boeing International Tribunal. Russia opposed abruptly against this proposal.

On July 16, Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a conversation with the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte , called premature and counter-productive proposals for the establishment of the International Tribunal. Putin also drew the attention of Rutte to the “inadmissibility of“ stuffing ”in the media of various versions of a frankly politicized character.”

On July 18, it became known that the Council of People's Commissars of the Malaysian Resolution, previously appointed on July 21, was postponed to July 27 . It will participate in the participation of foreign ministers of the countries included in the commission to investigate the causes of the plane crash: Australia, Belgium, Malaysia, the Netherlands and Ukraine. It is these states that most actively promote the idea of ​​creating a tribunal. Earlier, Van Bochemen said that discussions on the draft resolution were ongoing.