Russia calls attempts to create an international court to try crimes in Ukraine "illegitimate"

MADRID, 1 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Kremlin has branded this Thursday as "illegitimate" the attempts to create an international court to judge alleged crimes committed in the framework of its invasion of Ukraine, after the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, who stressed on Wednesday that "Russia's horrible crimes will not go unpunished."

"Regarding attempts to establish some kind of (international) court, they will have no legitimacy and will not be accepted by us. They will be condemned by us," Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov said, adding that Russian investigators "work very hard " to "solve all the crimes of the kyiv regime."

"This work is done daily and practically every hour," he said, as reported by the Russian news agency Interfax. "It is very important to add all this information and data on crimes committed by the (Ukrainian) regime since 2014 and on which, unfortunately, we do not see a critical reaction from the West," he concluded.

Von der Leyen defended on Wednesday that, "while supporting the International Criminal Court (ICC)", progress is made towards the creation of a "specialized court" backed by the United Nations to "investigate and prosecute Russia's crime of aggression". "We are prepared to start working with the international community to get the broadest possible international support for this special court," he said.