 Lawyers prepare appeal to ICC accusing Putin of weaponizing hunger. Human rights lawyers working with the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine are preparing a dossier of war crimes for submission to the International Criminal Court, ICC, accusing Russia of deliberately causing starvation during its war against Ukraine, according to the Guardian. The Guardian notes that the lawyer's aim is to document cases where the retin invaders used hunger as a weapon of war in order to provide evidence that will allow the ICC to launch the first such criminal prosecution that could bring charges against Russian President Vladimir Putin. Yusuf Khan, a senior lawyer with law firm Global Rights Compliance, emphasizes that the weaponizing of food has taken place in three phases. Beginning with the initial invasion, during which food supplies were cut off and Ukrainian cities were besieged. He described the second phase as the destruction of objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population throughout Ukraine, including food, water, and energy sources. The third phase is Russia's attempts to prevent or restrict the export of Ukrainian food. The Guardian recalls that in 2018 the UN Security Council approved a resolution condemning the use of hunger as a means of warfare and in 2019 the Rome Statute of the ICC was amended to expand the list of cases that may be brought in this regard. Some of the lawyer's efforts will be directed towards identifying the perpetrators, in particular to call for the indictment of Putin as happened in March when the ICC issued a warrant for the Russian President's arrest for overseeing the illegal deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia from territories occupied during the war.