President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that Ukraine has filed a lawsuit against Russia in the UN High Court in The Hague over inter-state disputes.
It is unknown at this time what he will do after leaving the post.
Russia is responsible for manipulating the concept of genocide to justify aggression. They asked the court to take an urgent decision, ordering Russia to suspend military operations now.
The court has no mandate to file criminal charges against individual Russian leaders behind the four-day-old invasion, according to foreign news reports.
It also has no jurisdiction over cases involving two nations, and states that Kyiv will have to make a claim under a UN treaty to empower the judiciary to hear the case.
Meanwhile, the Kremlin has sought to justify its operation to “militarize” Ukraine in an effort to prevent alleged persecution of the country’s Russian-speaking minority.
But the international community has strongly condemned the invasion as a violation of international law, and many Ukrainian civilians have volunteered to defend their country.
