Ukraine's international armor: European Court shoots down Kremlin's "legal special operation" at takeoff

On July 9, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) announced a fundamental decision regarding Russian aggression. The path of this interstate case has been long, starting with Ukraine back in 2014, and then the chronology changed with geography, when the court itself decided to consider separately the occupation of Crimea and the Russian invasion in the east.

The specifics of the "eastern case" were the involvement of the Netherlands in it, in terms of the Boeing downed by the Russians, and because of this, and given that the Ukrainian media use, at best, leading European media as primary sources of events in their own country, it is now described as "the Boeing case". However, the new decision is not only about Boeing and not only about "isolation." It is also about Bucha.