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“I believe that our case will be prepared, and when (the) time comes,when and if Putin will be available, he will be prosecuted and tried by the International Criminal Court or by a special tribunal,” Kostin said in an interview with Euronews on Monday.
“It’s our obligation as prosecutors to document all of the evidence (…) and make a case against Putin. This is our obligation, and we are committed to fulfil it.”
The Ukrainian prosecutor general – who was in Brussels to call on EU justice ministers to back his country’s efforts to deliver justice for the victims of heinous war crimes committed in Ukraine – warned that the security of the civilized world is at stake.
“Justice is always about deterrence,” he explained. “We need to create additional instruments to make aggressors accountable so that others who are thinking about waging aggressive wars will know that the civilised world will stand together in order to prosecute and to punish them.”
Ukraine is currently probing 123,000 war crimes committed since Russia started its full-scale invasion in February 2022, including indiscriminate killings, torture, sexual assault, and the abduction of some 20,000 Ukrainian children, a crime not seen on European Soil since the Second World War.
In a deeply symbolic move, Lithuania last Thursday charged three pro-Russian militants with war crimes in the Donetsk region for the murder of Lithuanian director Mantas Kvedaravičius in Mariupol in April 2022.
