The Ukrainian authorities welcomed the announcement on Friday by the Prosecutor General of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, of the conclusion of the preliminary examination on the situation in Ukraine.
"It is reasonable to believe at this stage that a wide range of conduct constituting war crimes and crimes against humanity falling within the jurisdiction of the Court has been committed in the context of the situation in Ukraine
", the prosecutor said in a statement.
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Fatou Bensouda then considered that these crimes "
committed by different parties in conflict were serious enough to justify the opening of an investigation
", officially launched by the Pre-Trial Chamber of the ICC.
While Ukraine did not sign the Treaty of Rome, the founder of the ICC, Kiev recognized the jurisdiction of the Court for crimes on its territory, and it was in 2015 that the Ukrainian authorities interceded with the CPI to review events
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