Russia says top UN court should dismiss Ukraine's case over Crimea and terrorism funding
Source: AP
By MIKE CORDER an hour ago
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) Russia urged judges at the United Nations highest court on Thursday to throw out a case brought by Ukraine against Moscow over the 2014 annexation of the Crimean Peninsula and the arming of rebels in eastern Ukraine before Russias full-scale invasion in February 2022.
We appear before you today in order to demonstrate that Ukraines application must be dismissed because it is without any legal foundation. Nor does it have any factual evidence to back it, Russian Ambassador to the Netherlands Alexander Shulgin told judges at the International Court of Justice.
Lawyers for Ukraine said as hearings in the case opened Tuesday that Russia bankrolled a campaign of intimidation and terror by rebels in eastern Ukraine starting in 2014 and sought to replace Crimeas multiethnic community with discriminatory Russian nationalism.
Ukraine filed the case in 2017, asking the world court to order Moscow to pay reparations for attacks and crimes such as the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 by a Russian missile fired from territory controlled by Moscow-backed rebels on July 17, 2014, killing all 298 passengers and crew.
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(17,383 posts)MutantAndProud
(704 posts)Theyve fucked over enough people and countries for a millennium, can we not just be done with entities that do that
FredGarvin
(463 posts)Just sayin'
Bayard
(21,806 posts)The pariah of the world does not get to make demands.