Ukraine's Justice Minister Pavel Petrenko Announced Saturday that Ukraine is preparing a lawsuit against Russia in the International Court of Justice in The Hague. The irony is that there is already another lawsuit against Russia in the same court.
"This is a separate case from the one already in existence. It is now in the pipeline and we are working with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in preparing it for the International Court of Justice," Petrenko said on the 112 Ukraine TV.
He added that the upcoming lawsuit will involve "Donbass aggression" and "Crimea annexation".
"We have several international lawsuits in European Human Rights Council — there's already five of them," he said, adding that "[Ukraine] has filed lawsuits in the International Criminal Court regarding Maidan events, Donbass events and Crimea events."
"We also add regular Ukrainians who suffered from Donbass occupation and Crimea annexation to prepare individual lawsuits," Petrenko said.
"More than two thousand of them were filed to European Court", he said.
All in all, Ukraine has the single highest number of lawsuits filed in the court, accounting for roughly 25% of the 71,050 pending cases sitting with the European Human Rights Court as of June 30, 2016.
