ICC prosecutor visits Ukraine, meets online with Zelensky

THE HAGUE ---The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, visited Ukraine on Wednesday and held virtual meetings with President Volodymyr Zelensky, his office said. The ICC has started a formal investigation into possible war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine after Russia invaded its smaller neighbor on Feb. 24. Neither Russia nor Ukraine are members of the ICC and Moscow does not recognize the tribunal, which opened in The Hague in 2002. But Ukraine has given its approval to examine alleged atrocities on its territory dating back to Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014. Thousands of people have been killed and several million displaced ...

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