British prosecutor Jeffrey Nice, who cooperated with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, said that Russian President Vladimir Putin must be held accountable for war crimes during the war in Ukraine, BBC Russian Service reports.. According to him, the accusations against the head of the Kremlin are " Nice was chief prosecutor in the case of former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic from 1998 to 2006..

“These are crimes against humanity, because under no circumstances should civilian targets be bombed or attacked in any way… There is no doubt that the chain of command leads directly to Putin. These are his soldiers.. At the very least, he knows what's going on from TV reports - like the rest of us.. But he did not order [his military] to return to investigate the obvious crimes. He's guilty,"

He also expressed satisfaction that prosecutors and politicians are not " Nice suggest that the Russian president may in the future receive immunity from prosecution as part of a deal to end the war in Ukraine.

“The International Criminal Court, which has jurisdiction over Ukraine, has not yet made any statements about Putin’s responsibility for this crime.. The question arises why the prosecutor is not in a hurry with this. Maybe he believes (or was made to believe so) that the absence of charges against Putin is politically beneficial.? Political benefits are a settlement. It is quite possible that someone else, not Ukrainians, will draw up a draft political agreement, in which there will be a clause that Putin cannot be judged.. This is a terrifying prospect, it will mean that the people of Ukraine will be completely deprived of justice,” Nice said..

Jeffrey Nice is convinced that it is very important to try Putin, and not individual officers. The ex-prosecutor explains this by saying that in this way “moral responsibility will be established at the very first stage, and then it will not be possible to question or change it”.

Nice believes that such a trial can begin “even tomorrow”, and Ukrainians should conduct it, and in the Ukrainian language. At the same time, the presence of Putin himself in court, according to the former prosecutor, is not necessary..

At the same time, the International Criminal Court responded to Nice's assumptions. In particular, they said that prosecutor Karim Khan works in Ukraine, collecting evidence of war crimes.. He, as stated by the ICC, intends to issue warrants for the arrest of the perpetrators, when there is enough evidence for this..

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As previously reported, France began work on the creation of a special tribunal for Russia's crimes against Ukraine.. “Fighting impunity for crimes committed in Ukraine as a result of Russian aggression is a priority for France. We have mobilized in support of both the Ukrainian justice system and the International Criminal Court, which have the right to conduct impartial and independent investigations so that those responsible for these crimes are brought to justice,” the French Foreign Ministry said in a statement..