Prosecutors general sign agreement to set up center for prosecution of Russia’s crime of aggression

According to an Ukrinform correspondent, the document was approved after the coordination meeting of JIT prosecutors, which took place as part of the international conference "United for Victory" in Lviv.

"Today we signed an additional agreement to the agreement on the Joint Investigative Team, which provides for the establishment in The Hague, on the basis of Eurojust, of the International Center for the Prosecution of the Crime of Russia's Aggression against Ukraine," said Prosecutor General of Ukraine Andriy Kostin.

According to Kostin, prosecutors will work in this center and will collect evidence of the crime of aggression.

In addition, the Prosecutor General’s Office is going to share with the prosecutors of the center in The Hague the evidence of crimes of aggression, which the department has already gathered.

It is planned that the center will start its work in July of this year.

The Prosecutor General added that the work of this International Center would be the first step on the way to the creation of a Special Tribunal for the crime of aggression against Ukraine committed by the Russian political and military elite against Ukraine.

As Ukrinform reported, during the visit to Ukraine of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in early February of this year, an agreement was reached to establish in The Hague the International Center for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression.

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