Ukraine must ratify the Rome Statute, on the basis of which the International Criminal Court operates. This was stated by Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba during an Instagram broadcast with journalist Vadim Karpyak.

“It definitely needs to be ratified so that all these prejudices that this will somehow harm Ukraine itself are prejudices and nothing more,” the Foreign Minister said..

Dmitry Kuleba noted that today Ukraine, although it has not ratified the Rome Statute, fully recognizes the jurisdiction of the ICC.

" Therefore, everyone who says that there are some obstacles for Ukraine's interaction with the ICC due to the fact that we have not ratified the charter - they are cunning,"

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Recall, on March 17, the International Criminal Court in The Hague issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Ombudsman for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova for complicity in kidnapping children from Ukraine. As a consequence, in the 123 countries that have ratified the Rome Statute, they must be arrested, after which they must be taken to court..

Prosecutor General of Ukraine Andriy Kostin calls for Putin \u0026 Co. to be tried in absentia so that those responsible for this war are brought to justice even if they are not detained. But there is a caveat: the ICC can prosecute people for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, but not for the crime of aggression.. This role can be performed by a special tribunal for Russia, which has already been joined by at least 32 countries of the world..

For more information on how the International Criminal Court and Ukraine should investigate grave crimes committed during the Russian aggression, read the article by Vladimir Kravchenko "