EU foreign policy chief accuses Russia of committing war crimes in Ukraine
March 21, 2022, 3:29 pm

EU foreign policy chief accuses Russia of committing war crimes in Ukraine

European Union flags flutter outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. (File photo: Reuters)

The Ashar Al-Awsat reported, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell is accusing Russia of committing war crimes in Ukraine, most notably in the besieged port city of Mariupol where hundreds of civilians have been killed.

Borrell says that “what’s happening in Mariupol is a massive war crime. Destroying everything, bombarding and killing everybody in an indiscriminate manner. This is something awful.”

The Associated Press said, he says Russia has lost any moral high ground and he underlined that “war also has law.” Borrell’s remarks Monday came as he arrived to chair a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels.

The report mentioned that the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands is gathering evidence about any possible war crimes in Ukraine, but Russia, like the United States, does not recognize the tribunal’s jurisdiction.

Putin's killer missiles targeted a maternity hospital, killing and wounding hundreds of innocent. Russia is bombing this Ukrainian city out of existence! (File photo and text: Euromaidan Press)

Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney says his country is “certainly open to other mechanisms for accountability in terms of the atrocities that are taking place in Ukraine right now.”

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Coveney says social media images of the war are “driving a fury across the European Union” for those responsible to be held to account.

Source: aawsat

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