War crime

Also, a warrant was issued for the arrest of the Russian President's Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova.

He added that the ICC prosecutor is likely to ask a pre-trial judge to approve warrants against several Russians for abducting children from Ukraine and targeting civilian infrastructure.

 A human rights group and 16 people from Myanmar have filed a criminal complaint in Germany seeking punishment of Myanmar's generals for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity they alleged were committed in that country after their 2021 government takeover and during a 2017 crackdown on Muslim Rohingya.

Former Kosovo Liberation Army unit chief Salih Mustafa's lawyer asked the Hague-based war crimes court to acquit his client, arguing that the evidence didn't prove that he illegally detained, tortured and killed prisoners in 1999.

Here are the highlights of events related to the war in Ukraine over the past 24 hours:

Ukraine is investigating 26,000 cases of war crimes

Ukraine is investigating almost 26,000 cases of alleged war crimes committed since the Russian invasion began in February and has indicted 135 people.

Russian missiles struck Vinnytsia in central Ukraine on July 14, killing at least 23 people including three children, in what President Volodymyr Zelensky called "an open act of terrorism".

"We believe that any speculation about organizing a 'new Nuremberg trial' against Russian soldiers allegedly responsible for crimes in Ukraine is inadmissible," the embassy's official Telegram channel said.

A new report published by the Belgrade-based Humanitarian Law Centre on Friday accuses the Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor's Office of being "extremely inefficient", while also raising concerns that over a half of the court hearings in war crime trials last year were postponed for COVID-related reasons.

Andrew Clapham, a British professor of international law, told BIRN that focusing on the crime of aggression could mean that "individuals who ordered and planned the invasion" are brought to justice at a special tribunal.

Karim Khan, chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, said on Monday that he has decided to proceed "as rapidly as possible" with opening an investigation into possible war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.