Ukraine Asks U.N. Court to Condemn Russia

David Zionts’s representation of Ukraine in The Hague was included in a recent Wall Street Journal article. Following Russia’s actions dating back to 2014 in Crimea and the Kremlin-controlled Donetsk and Luhansk regions, Ukraine is asking the International Court of Justice to find Russia’s actions violated terrorism financing and racial discrimination treaties.

During a recent hearing in The Hague, the Court heard Ukraine’s argument that Moscow violated its duties under the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism when it provided weapons.

“David Zionts, a former State Department lawyer who served as a law clerk to then-judge and current Attorney General Merrick Garland, argued that the Russian military’s transfer of antiaircraft missiles to Donetsk forces—which then shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, killing 298 aboard—was covered by that treaty.”