"ICJ Rules on Jurisdiction in Ukraine's Lawsuit Against Russia"

The International Court of Justice has ruled that it will hear a case in which Ukraine has asked it to declare it did not commit genocide in eastern Ukraine, as Russia claimed as a pretext for attacking its smaller neighbor. The court found jurisdiction to hear a small part of the original case and will only rule at a later stage on whether or not Ukraine committed genocide in the Donetsk and Luhansk areas of eastern Ukraine now occupied by Russia. This decision comes after Ukraine brought the case to the ICJ days after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.