The nations of Russia and Ukraine are set to go to court docket as Russia stands accused of planning to commit genocide.

The case issues, in line with the court docket submitting, "a dispute...referring to the interpretation, software and success of the 1948 Conference on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide," which each nations signed. Ukraine has accused Russia of aiming to commit genocide with their invasion, which has resulted within the dying of greater than 100 civilians and one other 300 folks injured, in line with the United Nations.

Russia launched its assault on Ukraine final week whereas accusing Ukraine of genocide, as nicely. Russian President Vladimir Putin has alleged that struggle crimes had been dedicated for the previous eight years by the Ukrainian authorities and that his purpose for the invasion was the "denazification" and demilitarization of Ukraine. Ukraine has denied any such struggle crimes have taken place.

"Ukraine 'emphatically denies' that such genocide has occurred and states that it submitted the Utility "to ascertain that Russia has no lawful foundation to take motion in and towards Ukraine for the aim of stopping and punishing any purported genocide,'" the court docket submitting states.

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Ukraine has alleged in a court docket submitting that Russia invaded with a plan to commit genocide. Above, a girl holds a toddler as refugees from Ukraine await transport on the Moldova-Ukrainian border's checkpoint close to the city of Palanca on March 1, 2022. NIKOLAY DOYCHINOV/Getty Pictures

The court docket submitting additionally asserts that Russia "is deliberately killing and inflicting severe damage on members of the Ukrainian nationality."

Along with their allegations of genocide, Ukraine can also be asking the court docket to take "provisional measures" to place an finish to the Russian invasion that started on February 24. The case filed by Ukraine additionally asks Russia to pay the nation reparations for his or her actions.

The case between the 2 nations will go earlier than the Worldwide Court docket of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands, subsequent week. The case can be heard over two days—March 7 and March 8. Instances earlier than the ICJ often take years to go to trial, Reuters famous.

The Worldwide Court docket of Crimes (ICC) introduced on Monday that it is planning on opening an investigation into alleged struggle crimes or crimes towards humanity in Ukraine. The ICC's chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, mentioned in a press release that he believes the allegations of struggle crimes to be true. The investigation would look into potential struggle crimes dedicated in Ukraine between November 21, 2013, to November 22, 2014. A second inquiry would take a look at alleged struggle crimes from February 20, 2014, onwards.

"I'm glad that there's a affordable foundation to imagine that each alleged struggle crimes and crimes towards humanity have been dedicated in Ukraine," Khan mentioned.