From: BBC by Nick Beake
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has said his team are doing all they can to deliver justice for crimes committed by Russia during its war in Ukraine.
Karim Khan was speaking on a visit to Ohmatdyt, Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital in Kyiv, which was hit by a missile in July killing two adults and a young boy.
Mr Khan, who is the first British prosecutor of the ICC, told the BBC: “We’re here for a purpose. It’s not a sightseeing visit. It’s to move forward… to make sure we pierce the veil of impunity and make sure the law is felt.”
Mr Khan met doctors and patients outside Ohmatdyt’s shattered intensive care unit and was shown fragments of what Ukrainian investigators said was a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile.
Russia has claimed the blast was caused by a misfiring Ukrainian air defence missile, but the United Nations said it was “highly likely” Moscow was indeed behind the attack.
I put it to Mr Khan that if he thought the Russian account was credible he would not have come to the hospital, which was the first leg of this trip.
Mr Khan said he had a “duty to investigate incriminating and exonerating evidence” and that his team was examining the remnants of the missile, which bear serial numbers.
The strike on the Ohmatdyt Children’s Hospital came during a wave of Russian missile and drone attacks across the country which Ukrainian officials said killed at least 46 people – including 33 in Kyiv – and injured nearly 200.
Voice of Ukraine 