The court rejected Ukraine’s requests to order reparations for both violations and only ordered Russia to comply with the treaties.
Ukraine’s representative Anton Korynevych stressed the judgment was important for Kyiv because it did establish Russia violated international law.
Ukraine had filed the lawsuit at the ICJ, also known as the World Court, in 2017, accusing Russia of violating an anti-terrorism treaty by funding pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine.
In a hearing at the court in The Hague last June, Russia dismissed Ukraine’s allegations that it funded and controlled pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine as fiction and “blatant lies”.
The court dismissed all of the claims related to the Tatars but found Moscow did not do enough to support Ukrainian language education.
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