Recital 8

(8) The International Court of Justice (ICJ), in its binding order of 16 March 2022 on the indication of provisional measures in the case concerning Allegations of Genocide under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Ukraine v Russian Federation), found (at paragraph 60 of the order) ‘that Ukraine has a plausible right not to be subjected to military operations by the Russian Federation’, and (at paragraph 74 of the order) that prejudice to that right ‘is capable of causing irreparable harm’. It added that any military operation, in particular one on the scale carried out by the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine, inevitably causes loss of life, mental and bodily harm, and damage to property and to the environment (4). The ICJ ordered the Russian Federation to suspend the military operations that it commenced on 24 February 2022 on the territory of Ukraine.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-16 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.