THE HAGUE: Ukraine urged the UN’s top court yesterday to help bring stability to its war-torn east, seeking to convince judges that Russia is ‘sponsoring terrorism’ in Kiev’s conflict with separatist pro-Russian rebels.
“Today I stand before the court to ask for the protection of the basic human rights of the Ukrainian people,” Kiev’s deputy foreign minister Olena Zerkal told the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
“Thousands of innocent Ukrainians have already suffered deadly attacks,” she said.
Nearly three years of conflict have claimed about 10,000 lives in eastern Ukraine — and led to Russia’s seizure of Ukraine’s southern peninsula of …read more
Source: The Borneo Post
