Abstract
This chapter analyses how incorrect definitions accredited to individuals behind the Russian aggression in Ukraine can lead to falsifications at the international level. Such incorrect definitions include the mistaken classification of the conflict as a non-international armed conflict and the inaccurate characterizations of individuals fighting in Donbas as ‘rebels’ and ‘separatists’. As a result, this definitional problem has led to a distorted view of the conflict in Donbas. Hence, this chapter firstly argues that the conflict is an international armed conflict under international law and that the notion of the existence of both international and non-international armed conflicts ought to be debunked. Secondly, this chapter examines the nature and role of individuals fighting in Donbas, evidencing their manner of participation and true characterization. Attention is also given to the relationship between Russian troops and local collaborators whose cohesive effort sustains Russian aggression in Donbas. Thirdly, this chapter assesses the root of the definitional problem stemming from the incorrectly ascribed classifications being disseminated throughout the world, which form part of the distorted language around the conflict. Furthermore, consideration is given to the issues regarding how distortions are ‘creeping’ into reports and other publications, which form part of the pool of information used at public, legal, and diplomatic levels. Fourthly, this chapter analyses the consequential issues concerning the normative backlash, the attribution of responsibility, and the manner of response to the conflict from the international community. The analysis then focuses on the argument that the use of distorted information could be used to influence future decisions, inevitably resulting in futile solutions. Finally, this chapter concludes by discussing the propagation of incorrect definitions, which has an undermining effect on the principles and doctrines of international law. Moreover, emphasis is given to the importance of the responsibility of definitional accuracy during times of perilous conflict.
Evhen Tsybulenko, Department of Law, School of Business and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia, email: evhen.tsybulenko@ttu.ee.
J’moul A. Francis, Department of Law, School of Business and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia, email: jmoulfrancis@icloud.com.
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Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the UN 2017.
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Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe 2018.
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Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe 2016b.
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OSCE Permanent Council of the European Union 2016.
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Voice of America 2017, ‘Russia to supply power to rebel-held parts of Eastern Ukraine’. https://www.voanews.com/a/russia-to-supply-electricity-to-rebel-held-areas-in-eastern-ukraine/3824981.html. Accessed 2 April 2017. See also, inter plurima alia, Corder 2017; BBC News 2016, ‘Ukraine crisis: new ceasefire “holding with eastern rebels”’. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37243434. Accessed 2 April 2017.
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Chifu and Tutuianu 2016, p. 28.
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Toler and Haring 2017.
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Coyness 2017.
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ICC-OTP 2016.
- 15.
Balaban et al. 2017, p. 33.
- 16.
- 17.
Ibid.
- 18.
BBC News 2014, ‘Ukraine rebels hold referendums in Donetsk and Luhansk’. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27360146. Accessed 22 April 2017.
- 19.
Ibid.
- 20.
Miller 2014.
- 21.
Ibid.
- 22.
BBC News 2016, ‘Ukraine crisis: blast injures Luhansk rebel leader Plotnitsky. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37000601. Accessed 7 June 2017.
- 23.
BBC News 2014, ‘Ukraine crisis: key players in eastern unrest. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-27211501. Accessed 23 April 2017.
- 24.
Balaban et al. 2017, supra fn. 16, pp. 73–81.
- 25.
Ibid., See also the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) 2016.
- 26.
Inform Napalm 2017. ‘Signal troops of Russian Army’s 136th Brigade in Donbas: lists, documents, orders (photos). https://informnapalm.org/en/signal-troops-russian-army-s-136th-brigade-donbas-lists-documents-orders-photos/. Accessed 23 April 2017.
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Kim 2014. See also, inter plurima alia, BBC News 2014, ‘Ukraine conflict: fierce battle for town of Ilovaisk. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28866283. Accessed 23 April 2017. See also UNAIN Information Agency 2016, ‘Kyiv honoring soldiers killed in 2014 Ilovaisk battle. https://www.unian.info/kiev/1490359-kyiv-honoring-soldiers-killed-in-2014-ilovaisk-battle.html. Accessed 23 April 2017.
- 28.
Ibid.
- 29.
BBC News 2015, ‘Ukraine crisis: fierce fighting after Minsk. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31449981. Accessed 23 April 2017.
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- 31.
BBC News 2014, ‘Ukraine and Russia exchange captured troops’. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29002147. Accessed 7 June 2017.
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Inform Napalm 2017.
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OSCE, Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the International Organizations in Vienna 2016.
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Yekelchyk 2015, p. 7.
- 36.
Ibid.
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Ibid.
- 38.
Jo 2015, pp. 36–7.
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Ibid., p. 37.
- 40.
Ibid.
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Walter 2009, pp. 4–7.
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Balaban et al. 2017, supra fn. 16, p. 19.
- 43.
Ibid., p. 18.
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Ibid., pp. 22–3.
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Ibid., p. 23.
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Ibid., p. 22.
- 47.
Ibid., p. 26. See also the interview with a former US Ambassador to Ukraine on PBS News in 2013.
- 48.
Ágh 1998, p. 31.
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Rodrigues and Dubovyk 2010, p. 64.
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Saakashvili 2014.
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Ibid., See also Lally and Englund 2004.
- 52.
Larrabee et al. 2017, pp. 7–11.
- 53.
Ibid., p. 7.
- 54.
Charter of the United Nations – opened for signature on 26 June 1945 (Trb. 1979 Nr. 37); entry into force on 24 October 1945.
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UN General Assembly 2001.
- 56.
Ibid.
- 57.
ICJ, Case Concerning Military and Paramilitary Activities in and Against Nicaragua (Nicaragua v. United States of America), Judgment on Merits, 1986, ICJ Reports 14, 27 June 1986, paras 105–115 (Nicaragua 1986).
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UN General Assembly 1974.
- 59.
Dixon 2014, p. 262.
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Nicaragua 1986, supra fn. 53, para 86.
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- 62.
ICTY, Prosecutor v. Dukso Tadić, Judgement of the Appeals Chamber, 15 July 1999, Case No. IT-94-1-A. (Tadić 1999).
- 63.
Ibid., paras 131–137.
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Fox News 2016, ‘In Ukraine, feeling grows that the east is lost to Russia’. http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/05/05/in-ukraine-feeling-grows-that-east-is-lost-to-russia.html. Accessed 25 April 2017.
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Ibid.
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Tadić 1999, supra fn. 58, para 10.
- 67.
Jennings and Watts 2008, p. 428.
- 68.
Crawford and Pert 2008, p. 58.
- 69.
Ibid.
- 70.
Balaban et al. 2017, supra fn. 16, p. 22.
- 71.
Ibid., p. 32.
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Ibid., pp. 25–30.
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BBC News 2014, ‘Ukraine crisis: does Russia have a case? http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26415508. Accessed 26 April 2017.
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Killingsworth et al. 2015, p. 101.
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- 76.
Ibid.
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Crawford and Pert 2008, p. 59.
- 78.
Jennings and Watts 2008, p. 101, supra fn. 63.
- 79.
Tadić 1999, para 10.
- 80.
Loiko 2016.
- 81.
See also ibid.
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Openbaar Ministerie 2016.
- 83.
Daniel 2017.
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Openbaar Ministerie 2016, supra fn. 81.
- 85.
Elftheriou-Smith 2014.
- 86.
Ibid., See also Sky News 2014, ‘US: Russian military ‘firing into Ukraine’. http://news.sky.com/story/us-russian-military-firing-into-ukraine-10395472. Accessed 8 June 2017. See also Case 2014.
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Ibid.
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ICTY, Prosecutor v. Tihomir Blaškić, Trial Judgement, 3 March 2000, IT-95-14-T, paras 76, 83–94. See also: ICTY, Prosecutor v. Dario Kordić and Mario Čerkez, Trial Judgement, 26 February 2001, IT-95-14/2-T, paras 66–7, 79, 108–9; ICTY, Prosecutor v. Ivica Rajić, Review of Indictment, 13 September 1996, IT-95-12-R61, paras 10–21; and Crawford and Pert 2008, p. 86.
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UN Security Council 2014, Security Council Briefed on Fast-breaking Developments in Ukraine, as Political Official Warns Failure to Secure Russian-Ukrainian Border Obstructing Peace, UN Doc. SC/11645. https://www.un.org/press/en/2014/sc11645.doc.htm. Accessed 27 April 2017.
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International Criminal Court, Office of the Prosecutor (ICC-OTP) 2016.
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Dredge 2014.
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Bunz 2009.
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Dredge 2014, supra fn. 81.
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Sarkin and Fowler 2010, pp. 61, 84, 86.
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See BBC News 2015, ‘Is Palestinian-Israeli violence being driven by social media?’. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34513693. Accessed 3 May 2017.
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Grey 2017.
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Ibid.
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Dredge 2014, supra fn. 81.
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Balaban et al. 2017, supra fn. 15, p. 58.
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Bershidsky 2016.
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Walker 2015.
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Sharkov 2016.
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Parliament of the United Kingdom 2015.
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Smith 2010.
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