Britain will send a team of war crimes investigators to Ukraine to help experts probing atrocities committed since Russia's invasion, the UK's Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said Friday.
Evidence of atrocities has emerged since Moscow's February 24 invasion of its pro-Western neighbour, and calls are mounting for war crimes probes.
Truss said Britain would send a team to the country in May to work with the International Criminal Court (ICC), which is spearheading an active war crimes probe.
"We will be sending in a British evidence-collecting team working with Ukrainian authorities working with the ICC," Truss said on a visit to the court in The Hague.
The investigators will seek to gather a "wide range of evidence, witness statements, forensic evidence and video evidence", Truss said.
"We're also using British intelligence to help show the links between what is happening on the frontline and the Russian authorities, because it's important that everybody in the chain of command is held to account," she said.
ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan visited Ukraine earlier this month, travelling to the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, where at least 20 bodies were discovered on April 2.
Khan at the time said a forensic team would be working in Bucha, adding that Ukraine as a whole was a "crime scene".
His office told AFP said it was "grateful for the strong support of the United Kingdom", including a recent donation of £1 million (one million euros) to the ICC.
Dutch foreign minister Wopke Hoekstra, who met Truss Thursday, also said the Netherlands would dispatch 30 investigators to Ukraine, mainly from the military police.
The investigators will concentrate their probe around Kyiv for two weeks under the banner of the ICC.
