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3 nations join international team probing Ukraine war crimes

By MIKE CORDER this common front of legal- President Vladimir Putin "a Last week, in the first case of Sweden, Norway and Swit-
Associated Press ity that is absolutely essential, war criminal" who should be its kind linked to the war, a zerland have opened inves-
THE HAGUE, Nether- not just for Ukraine ... but for brought to trial. Ukrainian court sentenced a tigations of their own. And
lands (AP) — Three more the continuation of peace and The team that met Monday captured Russian soldier to there have been growing calls
nations on Tuesday joined security all over the world," and Tuesday at Eurojust's the maximum penalty of life to set up a special tribunal
an international investi- he said. headquarters in The Hague in prison for killing a civil- to try Russia for the crime
gation team probing war Moscow's invasion of was established in late March, ian. On Tuesday, a court in of aggression in Ukraine.
crimes in Ukraine, and the Ukraine has been widely a few weeks after the ICC Ukraine convicted two Rus- The ICC can't prosecute the
International Criminal condemned as an illegal act opened an investigation in sian soldiers of war crimes crime of aggression because
Court prosecutor said he of aggression. Russian forces Ukraine, after dozens of the for the shelling of civilian neither Russia nor Ukraine
plans to open an office in have been accused of killing court's member states threw buildings and sentenced both are members of the court.
Kyiv, amid ongoing calls civilians in the Kyiv suburb their weight behind an inqui- to 11 1/2 years in prison. Khan said the united front of
for those responsible for of Bucha and of repeated at- ry. Khan has visited Ukraine, Russia staunchly denies its nations investigating crimes
atrocities since Russia's tacks on civilian infrastruc- including Bucha, and has a troops are responsible for since the Russian invasion
invasion to be brought to ture including hospitals and a team of investigators — the atrocities. The Defense Min- "hopefully can provide some
justice. theater in the besieged city of largest team of prosecutors istry said earlier this month modicum of accountabil-
Mariupol that was being used ever deployed by the interna- that "not a single civilian has ity for the crimes that we are
Estonia, Latvia and Slovakia as a shelter by hundreds of tional court — in the country faced any violent action by seeing in Ukraine and that
signed an agreement dur- civilians. An investigation by gathering evidence. the Russian military." really should no longer be
ing a two-day coordination The Associated Press found Khan now plans to work to- Analysts warn that the pro- tolerated."
meeting in The Hague to evidence that the March 16 ward opening an office in cess of meting out justice will
join Lithuania, Poland and bombing killed close to 600 Ukraine "in the next few be long and complex as in-
Ukraine in the Joint Inves- people inside and outside the weeks." vestigators piece together fo-
tigation Team that will help building. Ukraine's prosecutor general, rensic and other evidence and
coordinate the sharing of evi- Since Russia invaded on Feb. Iryna Venediktova, said that seek to establish who ordered
dence of atrocities through 24, the AP and PBS series her office has already opened or knew about atrocities and
European Union judicial co- Frontline have verified 273 some 15,000 criminal investi- failed to act to prevent or
operation agency Eurojust. potential war crimes. gations related to the war and punish them.
ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan Ukrainian President Volody- identified over 500 suspects, The meeting in The Hague
said the teamwork under- myr Zelenskyy has de- including Russian ministers, isn't the only place account-
scores the international com- nounced killings of civil- military commanders and ability is being sought.
munity's commitment to the ians as "genocide" and "war propagandists. She said her Prosecutors in Poland, Ger-
rule of law. crimes," while U.S. President office was ready to proceed many, Lithuania, Latvia,
"I think it shows that there is Joe Biden has called Russian against some 80 of them. Estonia, France, Slovakia,

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