The association describes this act as a “war crime”.
The Reporters Without Borders (RSF) association announced on Saturday to seize the International Criminal Court (ICC) after the strike on Tuesday of a Russian missile against the Kiev television tower, denouncing “a war crime“. “On March 4, RSF filed a complaint with the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes committed by Russian forces in Ukraine. Since the start of the aggression against Ukraine on February 24, the Russian army has deliberately bombed several TV antennas across the country“, writes the organization in a press release.
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On Tuesday, the sixth day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a Russian missile “touch» of the equipment of this tower, which is located not far from Babi Yar, a ravine where the Nazis shot dead more than 30,000 Jews in two days in 1941. This place is today an important place of memory. The strike killed five people.
Bombing the media ‘constitutes a war crime’
According to RSF, quoting its local partner IMI, “at least three other TV towers were targeted by shelling, in Korosten, Lysychansk and Kharkiv and two radio antennas stopped broadcasting after the Russian military took control of them, in Melitopol and Kherson“. “Deliberately bombing numerous media infrastructures such as television antennas constitutes a war crime and demonstrates the scale of the offensive launched by Putin against the right to information“Says Christophe Deloire, secretary general of Reporters Without Borders (RSF), quoted in the press release.
On Wednesday evening, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court announced “immediate openingof an investigation into the situation in Ukraine, where war crimes are allegedly perpetrated, after having received the green light from 39 ICC states parties. Created in 2002, the ICC, headquartered in The Hague, was invested as an independent international tribunal to try individuals accused of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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