Ukraine gathers evidence to try to force Russia to court
General prosecutor to target officials in absentia then go to The Hague over Crimea
by: Roman Olearchyk in Kiev and Neil Buckley in London
Ukraine is amassing evidence to bring cases in the International Criminal Court against senior Russian officials and generals for annexing Crimea and fomenting the two-year war in eastern Ukraine that has claimed nearly 10,000 lives.
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Yury Lutsenko, Ukraine’s general prosecutor, said that Kiev planned first to prosecute Russian officials in absentia in Ukraine, then take action at the court in The Hague where they could “face the fate of Slobodan Milosevic”.
His comments came after Kiev prosecutors last month published extracts of potentially explosive phone intercepts. They featured Sergei Glazyev, Russian president Vladimir Putin’s adviser on Ukraine, in early 2014 directing activists in Crimea and south-east Ukraine to stir up unrest as a pretext for Russian military intervention.
In one call, Mr Glazyev tells a person in south-east Ukraine: “I have a direct order from the leadership to stir up the people in Ukraine … So you need to take people to the streets … The people must gather in the square and … ask Russia to help them” against the new Kiev government.
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