On Monday, Russian lawyers told the judges of the International Court of Justice that a Ukrainian case alleging that Moscow abused the Genocide Convention to justify its invasion last year was an “abuse of process.”

Ukraine’s legal battle against Russia over violations of the 1948 Genocide Convention resumed on Monday, with the opposing counsel demanding the case be thrown out of the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

The leader of Moscow’s legal team at the ICJ, Gennady Kuzmin, told the 15-judge panel that Kyiv’s case, which seeks to halt the invasion, “is, hopelessly flawed and at odds with the longstanding jurisprudence of this court.”

He added that the plaintiff’s filing is "a manifest disregard of the proper administration of justice and constitutes an abuse of process.”