Ukraine to ask UN court to issue an emergency rule requiring Russia to stop its invasion

Do note that should Ukraine be successful and that the court's rulings are binding and that countries generally follow them, it has no direct means of enforcing them.

Eamonn Sheridan

Sunday, 06/03/2022 | 23:44 GMT

Via Reuters:

Ukraine will ask the United Nations' top court on Monday to issue an emergency ruling requiring Russia to stop its invasion, arguing that Moscow's justification for the attack is based on a faulty interpretation of genocide law.

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I'm a little rusty on the World Court (the International Court of Justice (ICJ)) and how it'd interpret the 1948 treaty on the prevention of genocide, signed by both countries, so I'll leave commentary to others.