German Justice Minister Marco Buschmann said the International Criminal Court, Ukrainian authorities, Germany and other countries were investigating Russia's war crimes in Ukraine.

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(Central News Agency) Justice ministers from the G7 nations met today for the first time in history to discuss how to prosecute Russia for war crimes in Ukraine.

German Justice Minister Buschmann stressed that the prosecution of war crimes requires patience and will take several years.

In the nine months since Russia invaded Ukraine, there have been many mass graves in Ukraine. The excavated remains showed signs of violent death. Civilian women were frequently sexually assaulted by Russian soldiers. In addition, after the Russian army retreated, towns around the capital Kyiv appeared. The corpses of civilians lying on the streets are enough to constitute war crimes.

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The German Ministry of Justice announced that the Ministers of Justice of the Group of Seven (G7) member states, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Karim Khan, the European Commission's Judicial Executive Member Didier Reynders , Ukrainian Justice Minister Denys Maliuska and others gathered in Berlin for two consecutive days starting today to coordinate how to hold Russia accountable for war crimes.

This is the first meeting of the justice ministers of the G7. German Justice Minister Marco Buschmann said that the International Criminal Court, the Ukrainian authorities, Germany and other countries are all investigating Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine. However, judicial systems vary from country to country, and it is necessary to simplify the way evidence is exchanged and avoid questioning the same witness multiple times.

Ukraine has recorded about 45,000 suspected war crimes cases, but only 12 of them have been sentenced so far. Bushman pointed out in an interview with the "Sueddeutsche Zeitung" (Sueddeutsche Zeitung) that to collect enough evidence to prosecute war crimes, countries must have enough It is bound to take several years of patience.

Germany adopts the principle of universal jurisdiction, regardless of the suspect's nationality, can initiate criminal proceedings against foreign countries for war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity.

Earlier this year, a German court ruled that a former Syrian intelligence officer was responsible for torture in prison, in what the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called a "historic ruling".