Ukraine has filed a lawsuit against Russia at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) demanding immediate action against Russia and has invoked the convention against genocide.<\/p>\n
Ukraine said Russia had \u201cfalsely claimed\u201d that genocide was being committed in the breakaway republics of Luhansk and Donetsk in order to justify an invasion.<\/p>\n
Russia \u201cemphatically\u201d denies the allegations, the indictment states.<\/p>\n
The court is now expected to declare in emergency proceedings that \u201cRussia has no legal basis\u201d for its military action in and against Ukraine.<\/p>\n
A date for a hearing has not yet been set.<\/p>\n
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi had earlier announced the lawsuit via Twitter.<\/p>\n
In the indictment, Ukraine also accuses Russia of \u201cplanning acts of genocide in Ukraine\u201d and \u201cintentionally killing or seriously injuring people of Ukrainian nationality.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe court is expected to order immediate measures to prevent the violation of the rights of Ukraine and its citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n
Court proceedings before the International Court of Justice are usually lengthy.<\/p>\n
However, in the case of an urgent application, a hearing can be scheduled within a few weeks.<\/p>\n
A case against Russia was already underway before the UN court.<\/p>\n
Ukraine had accused the country of occupying the Crimean Peninsula, as well as funding pro-Russian separatists in its eastern region of Donbass and supplying them with weapons.<\/p>\n
The function of the International Court of Justice is to settle conflicts between states peacefully, and its judgements are binding.<\/p>\n
However, the court has no means of forcing a losing state to implement its ruling, though it can appeal to the UN Security Council if its ruling was ignored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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