BRUSSELS, 10 April 2022, (TON): European Commission said “the EU is to discuss its support for war crimes probes in Ukraine in meetings over the next two days with the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor.”

Karim Khan, of The Hague-based court, is to meet EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell in Luxembourg, then take part in a meeting of EU foreign ministers in the city.

The meetings underline the European Union’s strong support, also voiced in a G7 statement, for investigations into atrocities in Ukraine, spurred on notably by killings in the town of Bucha, near Kyiv.

Ukraine’s government and some neighboring EU countries have said Russia, whose troops occupied Bucha before the discovery of the corpses, was responsible and guilty of war crimes. Moscow denies that.

Top EU officials have been more prudent, observing due process and preferring to await the results of war crimes investigations conducted by Ukraine’s prosecution service with help from the ICC, the EU, the UN human rights commissioner and the OSCE.