A conflict of numbers in Tchapliné and a future court to judge Putin

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news of the day

The war of numbers, again. Ukraine on Thursday denounced the deadly Russian bombardment which hit the Chapliné station the day before, in the Dnipropetrovsk region (center), and left, according to it, at least 25 civilian dead and more than 30 injured. The exact toll of the bombardment, however, remains to be confirmed. Oleg Nikolenko, spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, reported on Twitter that “25 civilians were killed following a missile strike”, denouncing “Moscow terrorism, plague of the 21st century”.

The services of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine have indicated that “ten civilians were killed, including two children aged 6 and 11, and ten others injured, including two children” at the Chapliné station and its surroundings, leaving open the possibility that the other victims are not just civilians. As for Russia, it claims to have hit “a military train” leaving for “the combat zones” of eastern Ukraine, Moscow’s priority strategic objective, and killed “more than 200 Ukrainian soldiers”.

The number of the day

10. This is the percentage increase in the number of Russian servicemen to come. Vladimir Putin signed a decree to this effect on Thursday, in the midst of an offensive against Ukraine and against a backdrop of growing tensions with Western countries. The Kremlin army will therefore have to have two million members, including 1.15 million soldiers, against 1.9 million, including just over a million fighters, in 2017, according to this decree which will come into force on 1 next January.

sentence of the day

“The two reactors of the plant in operation have been disconnected from the network. As a result, the actions of the invaders caused the Zaporozhye NPP to be completely disconnected from the power grid for the first time in its history. »

These are the words of the state group Energoatom written on Telegram this Thursday. According to the Ukrainian operator, fires on the territory of the thermal power plant, located near the nuclear power plant, twice caused the disconnection of the last line of communication connecting the site to the power grid. “Operations are underway to connect a reactor to the network,” said the operator.

The trend of the day

kyiv intends to create an international tribunal next year to try Russian President Vladimir Putin and those responsible for the invasion of Ukraine, a senior Ukrainian official has revealed. This plan for the creation of this court which will have to pronounce on the “crime of aggression” of Russia is overseen by Andriï Smirnov, the deputy head of the Ukrainian presidential administration.

“This is the only option to quickly hold accountable the criminals who started the war against Ukraine. The best, the fastest and the most efficient”, insists in an interview with AFP Andriï Smirnov. “The world has a short memory: that’s why I would like this court to get to work next year,” adds Andriï Smirnov, saying he is “cautiously optimistic”.

The “crime of aggression” is similar to the notion of “crime against peace” used in the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials at the end of the Second World War. And as a reminder, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has already begun to investigate the crimes for which it has jurisdiction – genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes – but cannot take up charges of “crime of aggression because neither Moscow nor Kyiv have ratified the Rome Statute establishing it in 2010.

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