The World Court has found that Russia is guilty of some violations of the anti-terrorism treaty in Ukraine.
He ordered Russia to investigate credible allegations of terrorist financing, but ordered payment of the requested reimbursement through Ukraine.
The case heard before the United Nations tribunal, also known as the International Court of Justice, focuses on Ukraine’s allegations that Russia funded separatist rebels in the east of the country in 2014.
It includes the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 by those rebels on July 17, 2014, which killed all 298 passengers and crew – though Russia denies involvement.
The case, filed in 2017, also accuses Russia of breaching conventions against discrimination over its treatment of Crimea’s multiethnic community since its annexation of the peninsula.
At hearings last year, a Ukrainian lawyer, David Zionts, said pro-Russian forces in eastern Ukraine “targeted civilians as part of a crusade of intimidation and terror. Russian money and weapons have fueled this crusade. “
Russia “sought to update the multi-ethnic network that characterized Crimea before the Russian intervention with discriminatory Russian nationalism,” Ukrainian lawyer Harold Koh said.
Russia’s lawyers suggested the International Court of Justice dismiss the case, arguing that pro-Moscow rebel movements in eastern Ukraine constituted terrorism.
Diplomatic positions are being taken between Turkey, Russia and Ukraine.
The main spaces in need of reconstruction were homes, roads, bridges, railways and river transport infrastructure, Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov Kubrakov said at a signing rite in Istanbul.
Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of launching missiles from a US Patriot air defense formula to shoot down an Il-76 aircraft.
Last week, an army transport plane crashed into a fireball in Russia’s Belgorod region, killing 74 other people on board, in addition to 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war, according to Moscow.
But Ukraine has accused the Kremlin of not allowing rescue workers to reach the crash site, which could have amassed data needed for such an investigation.
In Russia, prisoners are no longer conscripted through the Russian army on short-term contracts, the British Ministry of Defense said.
Citing an investigation carried out through the BBC’s service in Russia, the Ministry of Defence says prisoners are now being presented with longer-term service contracts.
“The short-term recruitment of prisoners is most likely a reaction to the rapid recruitment pressures at the beginning of the conflict,” the Ministry of Defence added in today’s intelligence update.
“In 2023, the Russian state has likely turned to regularized contract conscription as the main source of new military personnel. “
The photographs correspond to prisoners returned from Russia to Ukraine, at an undisclosed location.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says 207 Ukrainian soldiers have come home – see our 12.54 post just below.
Volodymyr Zelensky said 207 prisoners had returned to Ukraine, while the Russian Defense Ministry says the side gained 195 infantrymen as part of an exchange deal.
This is the first such exchange since the crash of a Russian military transport plane last week, in which Moscow said it was carrying 65 Ukrainian infantrymen ahead of a planned exchange.
Russia says Ukraine shot down the plane and the other 74 people on board were killed.
Ukraine has neither shown nor denied the allegation and has demanded proof of who was on board.
As uncertainty persists over U. S. aid to Ukraine, Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland arrived in Kyiv for talks.
US Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink posted a photo of Nuland at a central station in X, highlighting a “shared commitment” opposing Russian aggression.
Ukraine has been heavily reliant on the West since the invasion began on Feb. 24, 2022, but has not garnered any investment from the EU or the United States, the country’s two main backers, so far in 2024.
Volodymyr Zelensky’s leader said the delay in aid would create a “great risk” that Ukraine would lose the war with Russia.
U. S. President Joe Biden’s leadership asked Congress in October last year for just about $106 billion (£83 billion) to fund plans for Ukraine, Israel and U. S. border security.
Republicans, who hold a narrow majority in the House, opposed the package until investment for internal border security was increased.
Ukrainian report that Russia has attacked 10 regions of Ukraine in the past 24 hours, leaving at least two civilians dead and 17 others wounded.
The Kyiv Independent collects statements made through the regional government on the social media messaging app Telegram.
One user was killed in Avdiivka, Donetsk and another in Kherson, according to press reports, while the wounds were distributed in Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson and Mykolaiv.
No casualties were reported despite attacks in Kirovohrad, Luhansk, Sumy, Zaporizhzhia, Chernihiv and Dnipro.
Read more about reports related to the commander of Ukraine’s most sensible army, Valeri Zaluzhnyi, as Moscow concludes that “things are not going well there. “
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reportedly attempted to dismiss Zaluzhnyi from his position, and resources suggest that he may have already fired him and then reinstated him (see our message at 9:50 am).
Commenting on the reports, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow is “of course” following the situation.
“There are still a lot of questions, one thing remains obvious – the Kyiv regime has a lot of problems, things are not going well there,” he said.
“It is evident that the failure of the counteroffensive and the front is causing contradictions among the representatives of this kyiv regime.
“These contradictions will grow as the special military operation continues to be successful.”
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been plagued by difficult situations for the past two years, with estimates of tens of thousands of deaths and unrest at the source, leading in part to a mutiny that ultimately failed thanks to Wagner chief Eugene Prigozhin, who was later killed on a plane. crash.
As we reported yesterday, Russia’s defence minister Sergei Shoigu has emphasised the need to increase production as he hailed progress on air defence missiles.
It was learned that he also called on military brands to “stop fooling around” and speed up the production of self-propelled artillery systems.
In photographs published today by the news site RBC of his stopover yesterday at factories, he criticizes the control of a factory for not generating enough self-propelled artillery.
“Look, stop doing silly things around here, guys,” he tells the bosses.
“We got busy with this in 2022. We should have had these machines operating at full capacity in 2023.”
The director says the factory has already increased production six-fold since the invasion began, but Mr Shoigu demands a “specific proposal” within a week on “how we’ll reach indicators set by the president”.
Russia has put its economy back on its feet and reoriented its defense factories to 24-hour production.
Deputy Defense Minister Alexei Krivoruchko said last month that the industry would have “several times” more aircraft in 2024 than in the past two years, according to Interfax reports.