U.S. sending prosecutor to The Hague to focus on Russia’s crimes against Ukraine

The U.S. Department of Justice intends to send an experienced prosecutor to The Hague as part of the efforts to prosecute crimes of aggression committed by the Russian Federation against Ukraine.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland spoke of this on Monday after a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Andriy Kostin, Ukrinform's own correspondent reports.

"To further strengthen this partnership, the Justice Department will detail an experienced prosecutor to the International Centre for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine, which is hosted by the JIT (Joint Investigative Team - ed.)," Garland noted.

He clarified that the representative of the U.S. Attorney General's Office will be based in The Hague, at the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation.

In addition, the U.S. Department of Justice plans to send its resident legal advisor to the US Embassy in Kyiv this summer. That advisor "will work with our Ukrainian partners on a variety of complex justice sector issues."

Garland also said that he discussed with Ukraine’s prosecutor general further joint efforts to hold the Russian regime accountable for its atrocities. There is ongoing interaction at the level of the KleptoCapture Task Force recently created in the United States. According to the U.S. attorney general, the team "continues to bring prosecutions and effect seizures against sanctioned enablers of the Kremlin and Russian military."

As Ukrinform reported earlier, Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin of Ukraine is in the United States of America on a working visit. According to Kostin, holding Russia accountable is now the main task of the international community. It is also in the focus on the bilateral dialogue between Ukraine and the USA.