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Ukraine with its partners and the ICC created a dialogue group. It corrects the investigation of crimes in the Russian Federation

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Kostia Andreikovets, Oksana Kovalenko
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Ukraine, the European Union (EU), the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the government of the Netherlands have launched a dialogue group to support investigations of international crimes in Ukraine.

This was reported by the correspondent of "Babel" from the first public meeting of this group, which took place at the United for Justice forum.

The dialogue group was presented by the Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim Khan, European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands Wopke Hoekstra, the President of Eurojust Ladislav Khamran and the Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba.

The dialogue group will deal with four areas:

Why is this important?

Currently, approximately 70 000 cases of war crimes committed by Russians have been opened in Ukraine. The collection of evidence and the investigation of crimes are not only handled by the the Prosecutor Generalʼs Office, but also by the International Criminal Court, prosecutors and investigators of third countries, as well as human rights organizations. The dialogue group will allow to coordinate and unite all these participants.