Ukraine’s genocide case against Russia ‘an abuse of process’, UN court told

Presiding judge Joan Donoghue, second right, opens the court session (Peter Dejong/AP)

Russia has called a Ukrainian case alleging that Moscow abused the Genocide Convention to justify its invasion last year an “abuse of process” as lawyers for Moscow asked judges at the United Nation’s highest court to throw it out.

The leader of Moscow’s legal team at the International Court of Justice, Gennady Kuzmin, told the 16-judge panel that Ukraine’s case that seeks to halt the invasion “is hopelessly flawed and at odds with the longstanding jurisprudence of this court”.