What Is a War Crime and Will Putin Be Charged Over Ukraine Invasion? – By Dan Avery (CNET) / March 13, 2022
The International Criminal Court is investigating possible war crimes in Ukraine.
This story is part of War in Ukraine, CNET’s coverage of events there and of the wider effects on the world.
The US ambassador to the United Nations on Thursday described Russian actions in Ukraine as war crimes. “We’re working with others in the international community to document the crimes that Russia is committing against the Ukrainian people,” Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield told the BBC. “They constitute war crimes. There are attacks on civilians that cannot be justified.”
Events being investigated by the US State Department, human rights groups and an international court that presides over crimes against humanity include the seizure of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and the bombing of a maternity hospital in the southern city of Mariupol.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “shelling of Europe’s largest nuclear plant takes his reign of terror one step further,” the US embassy in Kyiv said regarding the nuclear facility in Enerhodar.
