Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday the U.S. sees evidence of war crimes by Russia in Ukraine, adding to mounting accusations against Russia as the International Criminal Court opens its challenging investigation into the allegations.
The U.S. said Sunday there’s “credible” evidence of Russia committing war crimes, the latest such allegation against Russia in its war on Ukraine as the International Criminal Court launches into an investigation—but prosecuting these charges will prove uniquely difficult. Karim Khan, the ICC’s chief prosecutor, admitted the Ukraine war crimes investigation presents «myriad challenges, opportunities and difficulties,” casting doubt on hopes Russia will quickly be held accountable for its alleged injustices. The ICC was created in 1998 as an independent body to investigate war crime allegations, specifically in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, handled by the United Nations, building off of the International Military Tribunal that conducted the Nuremberg trials.
