As per the press release of the International Court of Justice, Ukraine filed an Application instituting proceedings against the Russian Federation before the International Court of Justice (ICJ).<\/p>\n
In the said application, Ukraine contended that,<\/p>\n
\u201cthe Russian Federation has falsely claimed that acts of genocide have occurred in the Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts of Ukraine, and on that basis recognized the so-called \u2018Donetsk People\u2019s Republic\u2019 and \u2018Luhansk People\u2019s Republic\u2019, and then declared and implemented a \u2018special military operation\u2019 against Ukraine\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n While emphatically denying the said genocide, Ukraine submitted that the Application “to establish that Russia has no lawful basis to take action in and against Ukraine for the purpose of preventing and punishing any purported genocide\u201d.<\/p>\n Additionally, in the Application, Ukraine accused the Russian Federation of \u201cplanning acts of genocide in Ukraine\u201d and contends that Russia \u201cis intentionally killing and inflicting serious injury on members of the Ukrainian nationality — the actus reus<\/em> of genocide under Article II of the [Genocide] Convention\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Ukraine filed a Request for the indication of provisional measures, pursuant to Article 41 of the Statute of the Court and Articles 73, 74 and 75 of the Rules of Court, in which it requests the Court to indicate provisional measures \u201cin order to prevent irreparable prejudice to the rights of Ukraine and its people and to avoid aggravating or extending the dispute between the parties under the Genocide Convention\u201d<\/p>\n International Court of Justice<\/strong><\/p>\n [Press Release dt. 27-2-2022]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As per the press release of the International Court of Justice, Ukraine filed an Application instituting proceedings against the Russian Federation before <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8808,"featured_media":210313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1188,4631,2],"tags":[46699,48740,30732,16531,48739,48738],"class_list":["post-262828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hot_off_the_press","category-international-courts","category-news","tag-genocide","tag-genocide-convention","tag-icj","tag-international-court-of-justice","tag-russia","tag-ukraine"],"yoast_head":"\n
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