Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, could become the seat of the International Tribunal, which will try the perpetrators of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmihals said.
Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, could become the seat of the International Tribunal, which will try the perpetrators of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmihals said.
“In 1945, when the Allies chose the place for the trial of Nazism, they stopped at Nuremberg. Because the criminal ideology was forged there. When we choose the place for the trial, Bucha should be considered as one of the options. After all, it is here, as the President of Ukraine emphasized, that the first the whole criminal nature of Putin’s regime and the occupation of Russia was revealed once again,” Shmihals declared.
According to him,
Russia and its leadership must pay for the harm done: “pay with freedom, pay with means, pay with the status of an outcast state.”
As Shmihals pointed out, strong sanctions are also needed so that new Buchas do not happen again, and Russia runs out of resources for warfare.
On March 31 last year, a little more than a month after the start of the renewed invasion of Ukraine, Russian troops withdrew from Bucha, a northwestern suburb of Kyiv.
On April 2, the first news about the corpses in civilian clothes found in the liberated city appeared in the media. Some of the people killed on the street had their hands tied behind their backs.
A few days after the expulsion of the Russian troops, during a visit to Bucha, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy described what he saw there as genocide.
A year after the liberation of the city, reconstruction work continues in Bucha, and the locals admit that “the pain subsides” and they have to “go on with life”.
Ukraine and its allies, based on video footage and eyewitness accounts, accuse Russian soldiers of war crimes committed in Buch.
The Ukrainian Prosecutor’s Office has announced that the Russians murdered at least 1,400 civilians in Buch. The Ukrainian authorities have clarified the identities of several dozen Russian soldiers responsible for the crimes.
Bucha has been visited by many foreign officials who have come to Kyiv.
Ukraine demands the creation of a special international tribunal to try Russian leaders.
In March, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin in connection with the illegal deportation of Ukrainian children.
The chief prosecutor of the ICC, Karim Khan, has recognized Ukraine as a “crime scene”.
