An international office responsible for investigating the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the International Center for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine (ICPA), is inaugurated on Monday, July 3, in The Hague (Netherlands). ). It brings together prosecutors from Ukraine, the European Union, the United States and the International Criminal Court (ICC). This form of prosecution has the task of investigating and collecting evidence. It is envisaged as a first step before the establishment of a special tribunal to judge the most senior Russian officials for the outbreak of the war, requested by kyiv. Follow our live.
No new mobilization to replace Wagner’s soldiers. Andrei Kartapolov, head of the Defense Committee of the Duma, the lower house of the Russian Parliament, ruled out on Monday the idea of a new mobilization to replace the members of the paramilitary group Wagner who are no longer fighting in Ukraine. “The President of the Russian Federation [Vladimir Poutine] clearly, understandably and specifically, said that there would be no further mobilization”he told the state agency Tass. “There is no need for mobilization today and in the near future.”
kyiv says it is fighting “hard fights” against Moscow, which is advancing in the East. A month after launching its counter-offensive, Ukraine admitted on Sunday that the situation was “difficult” and that Russian forces were advancing in four areas of the front line in the east of the country. However, Ukrainian forces assured that their troops were advancing in the south. “The enemy is advancing in the sectors of Avdiivka, Mariinka, Lyman”Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Ganna Maliar wrote on Telegram. “It is also advancing in the Svatovoe sector.”
The conflict has an effect “destructive” on Vladimir Putin, according to the CIA. From the Ditchley Foundation in the UK, CIA Director William Burns called Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a “the most immediate and acute geopolitical challenge to the international order today”. According to him, war is a “strategic failure” for Moscow: it revealed Russia’s military weaknesses, dealt a blow to its economy and encouraged the enlargement and strengthening of NATO.