July 9 (UPI) -- The European Court of Human Rights delivered Wednesday two of four rulings against Russia in an international inquiry brought by Ukraine and the Netherlands.
Judges at the France-based court handed down two rulings against the Russian state, saying since 2014 it violated international law in Ukraine as source of "widespread" and "flagrant" cases of human-rights abuses stemming from Russia's full-scale Ukrainian invasion in February 2022.
"In none of the conflicts previously before (the Court had) here been such near universal condemnation of the 'flagrant' disregard by the respondent State for the foundations of the international legal order established after the Second World War," the court wrote in its judgment.
In addition, the Strasbourg court said Russia was the culprit in the 2014 crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in a tragedy that claimed nearly 300 lives, many of whom were Dutch citizens.
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