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"THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Europe’s top human rights court delivered
damning judgments Wednesday against Russia in four cases brought by Kyiv and
the Netherlands accusing Moscow of atrocities in Ukraine dating back more than
a decade.
Judges at the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Russia was responsible
for widespread violations of international law — from shooting down Malaysia
Airlines Flight 17 in 2014, to the murder, torture, rape, destruction of
civilian infrastructure and kidnapping of Ukrainian children after Moscow’s
full-scale invasion of 2022.
Reading the decisions in a packed courtroom in Strasbourg, Court President
Mattias Guyomar said Russian forces breached international humanitarian law in
Ukraine by carrying out attacks that “killed and wounded thousands of civilians
and created fear and terror.”
The Kremlin said it would ignore the largely symbolic judgment, but Ukraine
hailed it as “historic and unprecedented,” saying it was an “undeniable
victory” for the embattled country.
The judges found the human rights abuses went beyond any military objective and
that Russia used sexual violence as part of a strategy to break Ukrainian
morale, the French judge said."
Via Susan ****
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