G7 to create international data network on war crimes in Ukraine

G7 will create a data network to support international and national research in the field war crimes committed in Ukraine, including the systematic destruction of critical infrastructure, according to Germany, which presides over the group of seven powers.

Russian war crimes must be “accurately investigated by legal experts,” German Justice Minister Marco Buschmann said at the end of the ministerial meeting of the Council of Ministers. G7with the assistance of European Commissioner Didier Reynders and Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Karim Khan.

This is the only way to avoid “counterproductive situations” such as the failure of the accusation, the danger that the case will be used by the Russian side, or that it will inflict “even more trauma” on the victims.

G7a group consisting of the US, Canada, Japan, UK, Italy, France and Italy, as well as Germany, promised at its meeting in Berlin to improve the coordination of investigations through this investigation data network Ukraineits allies or international institutions.

” war crimes cannot go unpunished, no matter who they come from,” Buschmann said.

Ministerial meeting of leaders of justice G7with the participation of the European Commission and the ICC, was focused on finding formulas for cooperation to bring to justice the perpetrators of war crimes in Ukraine.

“We want to send a clear political signal from Berlin. G7 This is not just a group of major industrial powers; we share the values ​​and reject war crimes”, – said Buschmann at the opening of the meeting.

“Our duty to the victims is to bring to justice the perpetrators of war crimes, including UkraineKhan said.

The commission is working not only to agree on measures “against Russian oligarchs” and other sanctions against Moscow, European Commissioner Reynders recalled. Parallel to this work is the “duty to hold accountable for these war crimes”.

Both the Chief Prosecutor of the ICC and the European Commissioner praised the initiative taken by the German government in the year of its presidency G7raising the question for the first time war crimes on the group’s agenda.

Together with the Prosecutor of The Hague and the European Commissioner, the Minister of Justice of Ukraine Denys Malyuska was invited to participate in the meetings.

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In March, the ICC launched an investigation into Ukraineat the request of the first group of 40 countries, other states and international organizations have since joined the initiative.

His fieldwork in Ukraine follow each other parallel to those carried out by the company itself. Ukraineas well as a number of Western countries allied to Kyiv in the face of a Russian invasion.

Up to 45,000 alleged war crimes have so far been counted, with about 200 suspects under investigation, according to Buschmann of the Liberal Party (FDP).

The German minister recalled that to the “Russian strategy to bring the Ukrainian population to despair and death”, attacking critical infrastructure and cutting off water and electricity.

(As reported by EFE)

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