“After the war in Yugoslavia, a special tribunal was established; a tribunal for Rwanda has also been established, and they work. But it’s counterproductive to create tribunals after each conflict,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at the Seliger-2014 all-Russian youth forum in the Tver Region northwest of Moscow.
“There are enough mechanisms that can and should be employed. But justice should prevail and the culprits brought to trial,” Lavrov said.
During the military operation, conducted since mid-April, Kiev has used armored vehicles, heavy artillery and attack aviation. Hundreds of civilians have been killed in it. Many buildings have been destroyed and hundreds of thousands of people have had to flee Ukraine’s embattled southeast.