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Defense Ministry corruption scandal rocks Ukraine, Russia “celebrates” – In The Hague, Russian invasion.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu mentioned the regional gains in discussions with senior officials about the outcome of the war with Ukraine.
“Our units are advancing, expanding the zone under their control, improving their position on the front line,” he told a gathering in Moscow. “After the failure of the enemy's counterattack, the Russian Armed Forces have the strategic initiative on the entire front line.”
Shoigu added that the Russian army captured the villages of Tabakivka and Khromalny in eastern Ukraine's Kharkiv region, as well as the village of Vesele near Pakmut in the Donbass region. However, the war situation in these villages where only a few houses remain is not entirely clear and his claims cannot be verified.
Tmapagivka has suffered heavy damage but remains in Ukrainian hands, a military spokesman in Kiev said today, adding that “artillery firefights are taking place”.
Russian invasion of The Hague
to do The Supreme Court of the United Nations The International Court of Justice in The Hague decided today to hear a case by Kiev asking Russia to declare that it did not commit genocide in eastern Ukraine.
Days after Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Ukraine filed a case at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
Today, the justices ruled that the court has jurisdiction to reconsider Only a small part of the original case. The judges rejected Ukraine's request Whether or not the Russian invasion violated the 1948 Genocide Convention.
The 16 judges said they would rule on the matter later Whether Ukraine committed genocide or not Russia now holds the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of eastern Ukraine.
At a hearing last September, Moscow's lawyers called on judges to throw out the entire case, saying Kiev's legal arguments were flawed and the court lacked jurisdiction.
Today the judges accepted some of Russia's objections, but accepted Ukraine's request to rule that there was “no credible evidence that Ukraine is committing genocide in violation of the Genocide Convention” in eastern Ukraine.
Corruption in the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine
Ukraine's Defense Minister Rustem Umerov has fired a senior official, the ministry announced Friday, as officials investigate alleged corruption in arms procurement. Umerov took office last year with a pledge to “clean up” the interior of the ministry and manage Western military aid to Kiev.
“Toomas Nakkur, head of the Ministry of Defense's Technology Policy and Weapons Development Department, has been suspended after being named as an official suspect in an unspecified criminal case,” the ministry wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
