German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Monday accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of waging a «war against the law» in Ukraine and thus «trampling» international law with his invasion of the territory.
«Putin is trampling on the most elementary principles of international law that bind all peoples,» Baerbock criticized before heading to The Hague for talks with representatives of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Thus, he pointed out that the «war against Russia is also a war against the law» and insisted that he seeks to make it clear with his visit to The Hague that «international law is strong and it is up to us to apply and reinforce it right now».
Baerbock is scheduled to meet in The Hague with the president of the ICC, Piotr Hofmanski, and with the attorney general, Karim Khan. In addition, talks were scheduled with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and his foreign minister, Wopke Hoekstra.
«Cluster bombs on peaceful civilians, tortured prisons in dark cellars, kidnapping of Ukrainian children – there is no justification for Russia’s fury in Ukraine,» he stressed.
The Minister emphasized that The Hague «represents international law and justice better than any other city» and pointed out that «international courts represent confidence in achieving peaceful resolution of conflicts».
UKRAINE PROPOSES TO DELIVER ‘TORNADO’ FIGHTER PLANES On Monday, Ukraine’s Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Melnik proposed to the German authorities to deliver to Kiev those ‘Tornado’ fighter planes that are to be decommissioned and replaced by more modern ‘F-35’ fighters.
«I have a creative proposal for our German friends,» Melnik announced on his official Twitter profile, where he noted that, despite the fact that the ‘Tornado’ are «old» aircraft models, they are still «very powerful.»
«Why not deliver these ‘Tornado’ to Ukraine?», has questioned the Ukrainian deputy foreign minister and who previously, between 2015 and 2022, had served as Ukrainian ambassador to Germany.
According to Melnik, the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) plan to retire and replace a total of 93 ‘Tornado’ model fighter jets, jointly developed by London, Berlin and Rome in the 1970s.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
