ICJ to Hear Ukraine's Genocide Case

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has decided to hear Ukraine's case on alleged genocide in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of eastern Ukraine, changing the focus from earlier rulings that Russia had violated treaties with its 2022 invasion and 2014 annexation of Crimea. The court did not accept a request by Ukraine to rule on whether or not Russia's invasion violated the 1948 Genocide Convention. This will be judged at a later stage. The ruling follows a case filed by Ukraine in the days after Russia's invasion in February 2022, alleging that Moscow breached the genocide convention by using trumped-up claims of genocide in eastern regions as a pretext for attacking Ukraine.