British police said on Friday April 22 that they had received around fifty reports of possible war crimes in Ukraine as part of a call for witnesses launched to fuel the investigation of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
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The majority of these reports, received from people across the UK, relate to incidents in Ukraine
” in the context of the conflict which began in February, “
and specifically what appear to be attacks on the population civilian
,” London’s Metropolitan Police said in a statement.
Dominic Murphy, chief operating officer of the police's counter-terrorism command, said he expected the number of reports to increase "
in the coming weeks as more and more people who fled Ukraine arrive in the UK. United
".
The police, which has a unit dedicated to this type of crime, reiterated its appeal to anyone with information on possible war crimes to report them via a dedicated internet portal.
Emphasizing that the police have been “
proactively
” working with Ukrainian communities in the UK since the start of the war, Dominic Murphy also called on Britons hosting Ukrainian refugees to “
encourage
” anyone who has witnessed or suffered possible war crimes. to contact law enforcement.
The investigation opened by the ICC after the Russian invasion relates to facts from November 21, 2013, that is to say shortly after the start of the pro-Western revolution in Maidan, repressed in blood by the power of the time, and followed by the annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea and the outbreak of the conflict between separatists sponsored by Moscow and the Ukrainian army.
