The Reporters Without Borders (RSF) association announced on Saturday that it would seize the International Criminal Court (ICC) after the strike on Tuesday of a Russian missile against the Kiev television tower, denouncing “a war crime”.
The Reporters Without Borders (RSF) association announced on Saturday that it would 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 deliberately bombed several television antennas across the country,” the organization wrote in a statement.
On Tuesday, the sixth day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a Russian missile “hit” equipment at this tower, which is located not far from Babi Yar, a ravine where the Nazis shot and killed more than 30,000 Jews in two days in 1941. This place is today an important place of memory. The strike killed five people.
“At least three other broadcast towers were targeted”
According to RSF, quoting its local partner IMI, “at least three other TV towers were targeted by bombing, in Korosten, Lysychansk and Kharkiv and two broadcasting antennas stopped broadcasting after the Russian military took control of them. , in Melitopol and Kherson”. “Deliberately bombing many 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 the “immediate opening” of an investigation into the situation in Ukraine, where war crimes are allegedly perpetrated, after having received the green light from 39 States Parties to the ICC. 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. Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24 and is waging war across the country by shelling major cities. More than 1.2 million people have already fled the country, according to the UN.
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