Russia Says Ukrainian President Zelensky Could Be Tried For War Crimes if Arrested by Moscow

TRIBUN-VIDEO.COM - A senior lawmaker in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky could be tried for war crimes.

Ukrainian President Zelensky, former acting president Oleksandr Turchynov and former president Petro Poroshenko, will also face charges.

Speaking to Russia's state news agency Tass, Yelena Shishkina said the DPR would bring charges against lawmakers who had led Ukraine since 2014.

She said the perpetrators of military crimes were not the only ones who held weapons.

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But there are also generals who issue orders and presidents.

She accused the three of putting their signatures "under orders to send neo-Nazis to Donbas to kill civilians" there.

The Kremlin has pushed the narrative that Putin's so-called "special military operation" seeks to rescue residents of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk republics from a "genocide."

Shishkina said laws in the self-declared republic stipulated criminal responsibility for war crimes, as well as for supporting and financing terrorism.

"When sufficient evidence is presented by law-enforcement agencies … then, of course, those guilty will be punished." she said.

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Shishkina's comments came after the International Criminal Court said it would investigate possible war crimes committed during Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The court's chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, announced on March 2 that his office would be looking into possible war crimes committed in the country, after nearly 40 ICC member states put in a request for an investigation.

A growing number of officials and world leaders have called for Putin to be held accountable as the civilian death toll rises in Ukraine.

Radio Free Europe reported that Kyiv MPs had drafted a resolution calling the Russian president a war criminal.

It said the resolution aims "to publicly confirm the crimes committed by the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, against the security of mankind and international law, and to call on international institutions to investigate the illegal acts mentioned and bring Putin to account."

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