Ukraine to file another communication on events in Crimea to ICC

The Prosecutor General's Office will soon file yet another communication on the events in Crimea to the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova made a corresponding statement at the first meeting of the International Council of Experts on Crimes Committed in Armed Conflict, the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office informs.

The Council’s members are: Ivan Lishchyna, Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine, Government Agent before the European Court of Human Rights; Yevheniy Yenin, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine; Anton Korynevych, Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine to the Autonomous Republic of Crimea; Oksana Senatorova, Associate Professor of International Law at the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University and Director of the Center for International Humanitarian Law and Transitional Justice; Tymur Korotky, Vice President of the Ukrainian Association of International Law; Mykola Hnatovsky, First Vice President of the Ukrainian Association of International Law; Roman Martynovsky, founder of the Regional Center for Human Rights; Yuri Butusov, editor-in-chief of Censor.net; Olha Reshetylova, journalist and coordinator of the Media Initiative for Human Rights.

The main purpose of the International Council of Experts is to involve foreign and international experts, national experts on international humanitarian and international criminal law, and representatives of non-governmental human rights organizations to study the experience of investigating war crimes and crimes against humanity and developing national standards in this area.

"This international expert platform will allow us drafting a roadmap for the investigation of crimes committed during the armed conflict in Crimea and eastern Ukraine, as well as prosecuting those involved in war crimes and crimes against humanity in all jurisdictions. We work in many vectors at the same time: we continue to investigate and submit cases to national courts, we also actively cooperate with the International Criminal Court, we cooperate with colleagues from other countries who prosecute their citizens for illegal participation in hostilities in Donbas. Therefore, this new platform will ensure inter-institutional coordination and single information field for all stakeholders," Venediktova said.

She noted that the Prosecutor General's Office would soon file yet another communication on the events in Crimea to the International Criminal Court.

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