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Ukraine and Russia have completed the first week of testimony at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Ukraine accuses Russia of failing to do enough to prevent terrorism in the Donbbad region in the east of the country and to violate the rights of the Tatar population of Crimea.
"Never, in my worst nightmare, could I have thought that Russia would occupy my region and that I would not be able to come there for five years," said Oleksiy Ryabchyn, Batkivshchyna Party ("Fatherland") leader. by former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
After the takeover by the pro-Moscow rebels in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in eastern Ukraine, Ryabchyn, who grew up in Donetsk, was forced to flee in Kiev.
He is now following developments in his native region, where the "forgotten war" of Europe continues between rebels backed by Russia and the Ukrainian army of the capital.
In addition to the military confrontation, Ukraine is using legal means to recover the territory it claims.
"We lost part of our territory in 2014," says Ryabchyn.
"We are temporarily busy. Russia is still using its power to provide weapons, resources, to train mercenaries and almost every day our soldiers are dying. Today, we see people who have died as a result of an action in action. And we use all the necessary methods to accuse Russia of this. "
See you in court
Ukraine and Russia are involved in a series of court cases.
On May 25, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, based in Hamburg, declared that Russia should "immediately" release 24 Ukrainian sailors and three Ukrainian warships captured by Russia at the end of last year . But in a reaction, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea could not be applied to what he called the "dispute over the incident of the Kerch Strait ", quoted by Interfax.
In another case, Ukraine has accused Russia before the prestigious International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague of doing nothing to prevent terrorist acts and to violate the rights of Crimean Tatars.
At the International Court of Justice, Ukraine used the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination to accuse Russia.
"Terrorist acts" include the killing by an BUK anti-aircraft missile of the Malaysian airliner MH17 on July 17, 2014 on the Donbbad region, costing the lives of 283 pbadengers and 15 members of the 39; crew.
An investigation by the Dutch security office concluded that the weapon used to get off the plane "was a 9N314M model warhead embedded on the 9M38 missile series, as it had been installed on the system. ground-to-air missiles BUK ", manufactured by Russia.
Ukraine has also accused Russia of violating the rights of Crimean Tatars by resuming their "majlis" or governing council.
Refuse the accusations
Surprisingly, Ukraine does not directly accuse Russia of violating its territorial integrity.
"Russia uses its power very effectively and they are not present in all the relevant courts," Ryabchyn said.
Russia denies all accusations.
"Among these thousands of pages, Ukraine has not identified any elements that demonstrate indispensable elements of the financing of terrorism or racial discrimination against Crimean Tatars," said Moscow in his report. deposit at the ICJ.
Over a period of five years, Russian tactics were based on denial, according to Ryabchyn, an angry man. "It's not me," they say, "these are green men who have landed in Crimea, we do not know who they are, they do not have any insignia." And on the plane of the Malaysian airliner, the Russians claim that "there was an unknown, unknown BUK missile, it came out of the shadows and it hit the MH17, it was not Russia, "he says.
A final decision can take years. And if the court decides in favor of Ukraine, it does not have the power to implement its decision.
"I guess it shows a bit of the crisis of the UN mechanisms and all the other international mechanisms that need to be reformed. This is a sign to reflect on how world leaders could reform multilateral relations to become much more active, "Ryabchyn said.
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