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Ukraine is amassing evidence to bring cases in the International Criminal Court against senior Russian officials and generals for annexing Crimea and fomenting the two-year war in eastern Ukraine that has claimed nearly 10,000 lives.Yury Lutsenko, Ukraine’s general prosecutor, said that Kiev planned first to prosecute Russian officials in absentia in Ukraine, then take action at the court in The Hague where they could “face the fate of Slobodan Milosevic”.

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