![]() ![]() 06.59 BST International centre probing Ukraine war opens in The HagueĪn international office to investigate Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will open on Monday in The Hague, in the first step towards a possible tribunal for Moscow’s leadership.Īgence France-Presse reports that the International Centre for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression (ICPA) features prosecutors from Kyiv, the EU, the US and the international criminal court (ICC). ![]() “Prigozhin is already a suspect in criminal proceedings in Ukraine, but the main thing is to stop the activity of such groups,” he said. Kostin appealed to allies, including the US and Britain, to classify Wagner as a terrorist organisation so it can be prosecuted and its assets frozen. They are “among the most severe crimes against our civilians and our prisoners of war,” he added. ![]() The use of mercenaries by states in armed conflict is banned under the Geneva conventions.Īmong more than 93,000 incidents of potential war crimes Kostin’s office was investigating were many atrocities Wagner forces committed, Kostin said. He said Putin’s comments about state spending on Wagner was “like direct evidence that they are not only de facto, but probably, illegally, also are part of the Russian army”. Ukrainian prosecutor general Andriy Kostin made the comments in The Hague where he was attending the opening of the International Centre for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression on Monday. Putin said last week that Wagner and its founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin, had received almost £1.58bn ($2bn / €1.84bn) from Russia in the past year. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent comments about payments to the Wagner group was “like direct evidence” that Wagner’s mercenaries were an illegal arm of the Russian army in the war, Ukraine’s top prosecutor has told Reuters. ![]() 08.08 BST Ukraine says Putin comments on Wagner funding 'direct evidence' it was illegal arm of Russian army ![]()
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