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Ukraine Says Russia Is Illegally Targeting the Power Grid. Here’s What the Law Says
The ICC issued 2024 arrest warrants for top Russian military leaders accused of strikes causing excessive civilian harm to Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, which suffered $20 billion in damage.
- Pretrial judges at the International Criminal Court issued warrants in 2024 for Russian commanders, finding reasonable grounds that alleged strikes targeted civilian objects, the court said.
- On Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said 'taking advantage of the coldest days of winter to terrorize people is more important to Russia than diplomacy' as recent weeks saw attacks on Ukraine's energy grid during freezing temperatures.
- Authorities report that strikes have hit substations, transformers, turbines and generators, and DTEK, Ukraine's largest private power company, said this week's overnight attack was the ninth major assault since October.
- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday that 'our military is striking the targets that they believe are associated with the military complex of the Kyiv regime, the operation is continuing', while Russia rejects ICC jurisdiction and refuses extradition.
- Analysts note the legal test requires attacks on energy systems only if they target valid military objectives and avoid excessive civilian harm, with Ukraine's energy sector suffering over $20 billion in war damage, according to the World Bank, European Commission, and United Nations.
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Ukraine says Russia is illegally targeting the power grid. Here's what the law says
Russian missiles and drones have pounded Ukraine’s energy grid in recent weeks. That has plunged people into frozen darkness in one of the country’s coldest winters on record.
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