UN’s top court rejects most of Ukraine’s ‘terror’ case against Russia
- The International Court of Justice said only that Moscow had failed to investigate alleged breaches, tossing the remainder of Kyiv’s claims
- The case accusing Russia of financing ‘terrorism’ in eastern Ukraine started in 2017, and predates the full-fledged invasion in 2022
The United Nations’ top court on Wednesday mostly rejected Ukraine’s claims that Russia was financing “terrorism” in eastern Ukraine, saying only that Moscow had failed to investigate alleged breaches.
Kyiv had accused Moscow of being a “terrorist state” whose support for pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine was a harbinger of the full-fledged 2022 invasion.
It wanted Russia to compensate all civilians caught up in the conflict, as well as victims from Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, which was shot down over eastern Ukraine.
But the International Court of Justice (ICJ) tossed out most of Ukraine’s pleas, ruling only that Russia was “failing to take measures to investigate facts … regarding persons who have allegedly committed an offence”.
The ICJ “rejects all other submissions made by the Ukraine”, it said in a statement.
