As the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced it would initiate an investigation into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has launched a Telegram bot to collect evidence of war crimes.
According to the SBU message on the department’s Telegram channel, Ukraine has launched the official bot @russian_war_tribunal_bot to collect data on war crimes committed by the Russian Federation to bring new evidence for the Hague Tribunal.
The service stressed that they’ll allow no one to escape responsibility and will make sure that Russia will definitely answer for the attack on Ukraine.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces in Ukraine said Tuesday that SBU has asked everyone who has evidence of war crimes of the Russian army to report them and reminded that it has another official chatbot on Telegram- @stop_russian_war_bot – where civilians can report Russian troops and vehicles’ movements and sabotage.
With its help, the Armed Forces of Ukraine were allegedly able to neutralize a lot of Russian tanks.
While Russia is being accused of committing war crimes by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other Ukrainian officials, Washington has confirmed that Russia is going after schools and hospitals.
GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham has previously informed that Zelensky has provided numerous examples of war crimes, including of mayors being captured, imprisoned, and murdered, as well as of random, indiscriminate, wholesale attacks on civilian targets, which, according to him, is full-blown war crimes mode.
In an important step in the global condemnation of the Russian invasion, the ICC has launched its investigation into Russian actions in Ukraine at the request of 39 countries with ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan stressing that they’ll investigate every allegation of war crimes, crimes against humanity, or genocide committed on any part of the territory of Ukraine by any person.
Although some experts have pointed out the difficulties of using international law to condemn Russia, the ICC does have the ability to charge Putin with war crimes providing it finds evidence he has intent to commit them, which will also be extremely difficult.
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