The Czech presidency of the European Union (UE) called on Saturday to create an international court to judge war crimes, after the discovery of hundreds of bodies near Iziuma city in eastern Ukraine recently liberated from Russian forces, as fighting in the country continues.
“We are in favor of all war criminals being punished,” the Czech Foreign Minister said on Twitter on Saturday. Jan Lipavskywhose country currently holds the rotating presidency of the European Union.
I ask that a special international court be quickly created to punish the crime of aggression,” he insisted.
The appeal came after the discovery of some 450 tombs around Iziumwhere “99% of the exhumed bodies showed signs of violent death,” according to the regional governor Oleg Sinegubov.
the ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenski, stressed in his daily evening address that “new evidence of torture” was obtained from the bodies buried there.
“More than 10 torture chambers have already been found in various liberated cities and towns in the Kharkov region.” He added, citing the discovery of electric torture tools.
“That is what the Nazis did. This is what the Ruscists do. And they will be held accountable just as much, on the battlefield as in the courts.” He promised.
For its part, the Ukrainian Ombudsman, Dmitry Lubinetsnoted on Telegram that “probably more than 1,000 citizens Ukrainians were tortured and killed in the liberated territories of the region of Jarkov“.
The macabre discovery has caused a wave of indignation in the West, about five months after the withdrawal of the Russian army from the region of Kiev reveal the existence of hundreds of dead civiliansof which many showed signs of torture or of having been victims of summary executions, especially in the town of bushing.
“The world must react”
“The world must react to all this. Russia has repeated in Izium what it did in Bucha”, the Ukrainian president had said, celebrating the sending of a UN team to the field to join the national investigation.
The United States and the EU showed their outrage and blamed Russia for what happened.
“This inhuman behavior of the Russian forces (…) must stop immediately,” declared the head of European diplomacy, Joseph Borrell.
On Thursday, before the discovery of the graves, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyenrequested the appearance of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, before international justice for war crimes.
The American President, Joe Bidenwarned his Russian counterpart against the use of chemical weapons in Ukraine.
“It would change the course of the war in a way not seen since World War II,” the US president warned during an interview with CBS.
On the ground, where Western-armed Ukrainian forces first held off the Russian advance in the east and then recaptured thousands of miles in a lightning counteroffensive in the northeast, fighting continued.
Zaporizhia nuclear power plant was reconnected
In Kupanskrecaptured last week by Ukrainian forces, clashes with the Russian army entrenched on the east side of the river Oskil continued, AFP journalists noted.
According to a statement from the General Staff of the Ukrainian forces, “the enemy carried out four missile strikes and 15 air strikes, as well as more than 20 multiple rocket launcher attacks on civilian and military sites in Ukraine during the day.”
In the region of Jarkovan 11-year-old girl was killed by Russian missile fire in the town of ChuguivGovernor Oleg Sinegubov indicated.
Likewise, “the Russian invaders bombed” a thermal power plant on Saturday morning in Mikolaivkaaffirmed Pavlo Kirilenko, governor of the region of Donetsk (It is).
In the neighboring region of Dnipropetrovsk“the Russians fired Grad (multiple rocket launchers) and heavy artillery all night on the district of Nikopol“said the local governor, Valentin Reznitchenko. And in the south, one person died in Dmitrivka by Russian bombing, according to the regional governor, Vitali Kim.
Moscow’s military denied the bombing of civilians, saying they were “high-precision” strikes on military targets.
Regarding the nuclear power plant Zaporizhiawhose reactors were closed due to the risk of disaster due to clashes between Russians and Ukrainians in the vicinity, was reconnected to the Ukrainian network, which makes it possible to ensure the cooling of the facilities, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced on Saturday.
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