The Russian General Prosecutor’s Office has announced that it intends to bring a case against the Ukrainian government in Europe’s top rights court, over a range of issues stemming from the 2014 Maidan and the country’s civil war.
In a statement released on Thursday, officials in Moscow revealed that they had applied to the European Court of Human Rights with an inter-state complaint for the first time. According to the release, they are requesting that justices look into “the responsibility of the Ukrainian authorities for the death of civilians, illegal imprisonment and cruel treatment of people,” in both the Maidan and in the subsequent conflict in the Donbass.
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