THE HAGUE: Ukraine will go head-to-head with Russia at the UN's top court on Tuesday (Jun 6) to accuse its bitter foe of backing pro-Moscow rebels for years before last year's full-scale invasion.
Ukraine says Russia funnelled arms and cash to fighters behind a separatist insurgency that broke out after the pro-Russian government in Kyiv was toppled by pro-EU protests in early 2014.Russia has denied all links to the rebels. Since the invasion, it now holds much of the territory where the violence took place and where the separatists were in charge.from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down with a Russian-made BUK missile over rebel territory in July 2014.
A Dutch court ruled last year that Moscow had directly controlled the rebels, as it sentenced two Russians and a Ukrainian separatist to life sentences inInternational investigators said separately in February this year that there were"strong indications" that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally approved the supply of the missile that downed the plane.
ICJ judges ruled that the case could go ahead in 2019, after dismissing Russia's attempts to have it thrown out.The International Criminal Court , an independent war crimes tribunal which like the ICJ is also based in the Dutch city, issued an arrest warrant for Putin in March. Putin is accused by the ICC of the war crime of unlawfully deporting children from occupied areas of Ukraine to Russia.
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