War crime investigations against Putin

 Fox News:

The International Criminal Court has opened an investigation into alleged war crimes after Russian President Vladimir Putin approved a "special military operation" in Ukraine Feb. 24.

ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan said there is a "reasonable basis" to believe that both alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity have been committed in Ukraine.

"The next step is to proceed with the process of seeking and obtaining authorization from the pre-trial chamber of the court to open an investigation," Khan said.

Dustin Lewis, research director at the Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict, told Fox News Digital the ICC will now investigate the allegations.

"With respect to the situation in Ukraine, the ICC prosecutor may investigate allegations of war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide," Lewis said. "The ICC is empowered to exercise jurisdiction only over natural persons. In other words, it may institute proceedings only against individual humans. The ICC has no jurisdiction over the entities with which those humans may be affiliated, such as a government or a military."
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Oksana Markarova, Ukraine's ambassador to the U.S., told reporters Monday that Russia used a vacuum bomb, a violation of international law.

"They used the vacuum bomb today," Markarova said. "The devastation that Russia is trying to inflict on Ukraine is large."

The bomb is considered a thermobaric weapon that absorbs oxygen out of a given area, which then causes a blast which is capable of vaporizing humans.

Russian forces continue bombarding Ukraine's two largest cities, Kharkiv and Kyiv.
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Putin's stated reason for making war against Ukraine appears to be without evidence.  They look like an excuse for him to try to reinstate the Russian empire from decades ago.  I suspect there will be further evidence of war crimes alleged.

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