ICC Prosecutor on Ukraine - Security Council (22 September 2022) | United Nations

Remarks by Mr. Karim Khan, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, on the situation in Ukraine - Security Council, 9135th meeting, High Level Debate.

The ICC Prosecutor, Karim Asad Ahmad Khan, also addressed the Council, informing that the Court is “now at the stage of continuing forensic, objective and impartial, sometimes painstaking work, to grapple with the facts, to separate truth from fiction and to build a picture of what actually happened.”

In May, Khan said, ICC made its largest field deployment ever and has maintained a presence in the country ever since. The Prosecutor also announced that next week further members will be deployed, in relation to allegations emerging from the East of the country.

“Through this work a picture will emerge,” Khan said. “And the picture that I've seen so far is troubling indeed. I have been to Ukraine three times, and I have seen a variety of destruction, of suffering, of harm that fortifies my determination and my previous finding that there are reasonable grounds to believe that crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court have been committed.”

Khan then described the bodies he saw behind Saint Agnes Church, in Bucha, the destruction of buildings and schools he witnessed in Borodyanka and the bombings he heard in Kharkiv.

All this, the Prosecutor said, gave “a very somber insight, and a very small insight, into the awful reality that is faced by many of our brothers and sisters and children that are in a war zone.”