KYIV: Six months into Russia's invasion, Ukrainian officials are drawing up plans to make sure Russian President Vladimir Putin and his top military commanders will be tried for launching the war. The plan for a special international tribunal to investigate Russia's alleged 'crime of aggression' is being s
KYIV: Six months into Russia's invasion, Ukrainian officials are drawing up plans to make sure Russian President Vladimir Putin and his top military commanders will be tried for launching the war.
The definition of the crime of aggression was adopted in the 2010 Rome Statute, and the similar notion of"crime against peace" was used in trials in Nuremberg and Tokyo after the Second World War.
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