The Belarusian military took part in the invasion of Ukraine, – MIPL
Belarus is an accomplice in military aggression against Ukraine, and its military personnel participated in a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory.
I came to such a conclusion Media initiative for human rightsby publishing the results of his own journalistic investigation “On the side of evil. How Belarus participates in the war against Ukraine”.
MIPL journalists interviewed people who are convinced that they saw Belarusian soldiers in Ukraine.
“They told my wife’s godson that they are still studying, but they understand that this is already Ukraine,” says the Kyivan. Vitaly Veres, who was in the village of Nova Basan in Chernihiv region from February 25. – Khreschena asked them where they came from? They answered that they were from Belarus. Their pronunciation was Belarusian, because the godmother worked there for some time, so they can be distinguished by their speech.”
About participation in the war of Belarusian military talks and Mykhailo Zhirokhov, a military historian: “I took comments from people who personally saw, firstly, the Belarusian uniform on the dead, and secondly, the Belarusian flag on the armored vehicles they knocked out. It was in Kolychivtsi, Lukashivtsi, Mykhailo-Kotsiubinsky. But there are no photos and videos.
I also spoke with people from the border area (the village of Dobryanka), who can distinguish Belarusians from Russians by their speech. They said that
parts of the military that entered them, and then followed them, were Belarusians.”
Indirect confirmation of the presence of military personnel of Belarus on the territory of Kyiv region was documented Anatoly Burbeza, who serves in the voluntary formation of the Irpin Territorial Community. While inspecting the forest near the villages of Dibrova and Plakhtyanka, where the occupation positions were in March, he found a pack of Belarusian cigars, as well as a piece of a sheet used by the armed forces of Belarus.
These facts require further verification, although human rights defenders are already convinced that Belarus is complicit in the aggression against Ukraine.
“An act of aggression qualifies the action of a state that allows its territory, which it has placed at the disposal of another state, to be used for the occurrence of such an act of aggression,” stated MIPL lawyer and expert Andriy Yakovlev.
Currently, it is known for certain that the territory of Belarus uses the armed forces of the Russian Federation for missile attacks on Ukraine from the ground and from the air, as well as for air attacks on Ukraine. But Belarus itself is still not a participant in an international armed conflict.
“Complicity in the commission of an international illegal act – the crime of aggression – is not the same as Belarus’s participation in the Russian-Ukrainian armed conflict, since the state participates in the armed conflict, not its highest official,” commented Yakovlev.
According to the lawyer, in order to use Belarus as a participant in the armed conflict, it is necessary to prove that it used its own armed forces to attack Ukraine or capture Ukrainian servicemen or civilians.
However, it will be difficult to bring the military and political leadership of Belarus to criminal responsibility for any necessary and legal status.
“At this time, it is necessary to create a special tribunal for aggression in order to bring guilty persons to criminal responsibility,” said Andriy Yakovlev. — Since Ukraine has not ratified the Rome Statute, this crime is “not subject to” the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court. Unfortunately, due to the creation of a negative and false stereotype, we did not ratify this statute, and now we are atoning for it.”
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