18:42 03.03.2022

Prosecutor General: We are gathering coalition for justice against Russia

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The Prosecutor General's Offices of Poland and Lithuania have already launched their criminal investigations into Russia's invasion of Ukraine, said Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova.

"We are assembling a coalition for the sake of justice against the aggression of the Russian Federation. The two countries have already begun their criminal proceedings on Russia's invasion of our state. The Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office has launched a pretrial investigation into aggression, illegal treatment of people prohibited by international law and prohibited Russian military attacks in Ukraine," Venediktova said on the telegram channel of the Prosecutor General's Office.

The Prosecutor General said that the Prosecutor General's Office of Poland also launched an investigation into the case of the beginning and conduct of the war of conquest.

"Other states are also in the process of registering such proceedings and starting investigations," Venediktova stressed.

She explained that the coalition in the investigation is important to collect and document the testimony of people fleeing the war, the evidence to bring the aggressor to justice must be at all possible levels.

"I also spoke today with Attorney General of England and Wales Suella Braverman and Attorney General of Italy Giovanni Salvi. She thanked for the support of Ukraine through the presentation to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, thanks to which the process of a full-fledged investigation of the situation in Ukraine was launched," the prosecutor general noted.

She also drew attention to the fact that for the Ukrainian prosecutor's office, partners' assistance is important in expanding the geography of national investigations into Russian aggression, creating international joint investigation teams on the bloody war in Ukraine, cooperation within the framework of the task force, which is being created in the Prosecutor General's Office for the search, arrest and confiscation of assets and property of war criminals from the Russian Federation abroad.

"We already have 13 suspected high-ranking officials of the Russian Federation, and there will be thousands. And we must do everything so that a 'red flag' of arrest awaits them on the border of every civilized country, and their villas and yachts are confiscated for the restoration of our country, which they are destroying with their deadly missiles," Venediktova summed up.

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