Ukraine will accuse Russia of sponsoring terrorism in top UN court, calling negotiations ‘futile’
Kiev will seek to convince the UN’s top court that Moscow is “sponsoring terrorism” in a bloody conflict involving separatist pro-Russian rebels, as tensions escalate in war-torn eastern Ukraine.
Ukraine’s representatives will also ask the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Monday to take emergency measures ordering Russia to stop its alleged funnelling of money, weapons and personnel into the east, and to halt what it called “discrimination” of minorities in Russian-occupied Crimea.
It is also seeking compensation for attacks on civilians in nearly three years of conflict.
Moscow has long denied arming the rebels and has hit back that the case was just motivated “by political interests”.
It has also claimed that Kiev in fact had “shown a lack of will to hold a concrete dialogue.”
