Arbitration tribunal rejects bulk of Ukraine's Kerch Strait case against Russia

THE HAGUE, June 15 (Reuters) - ‌An international ​court ​found that Russia flouted some sea laws during the construction of the Kerch Strait bridge ‌between mainland Russia and annexed Crimea, but dismissed Ukraine's ⁠claims that Moscow was unlawfully trying to keep the strait under ‌its sole control, a ‌ruling published on Monday showed.

• The case at the Hague-based intergovernmental Permanent Court of Arbitration was filed in ​2016 after Moscow began building the 19-km (12-mile) Crimea Bridge link to the peninsula.

• In a ruling dated April 22 but ⁠only announced on Monday, as per the arbitration court's procedures, the court dismissed ​the majority of Kyiv's claims about Russia's control over the strait on procedural grounds.

• The court ​did find Russia violated some ‌sea laws because it did not carry out proper environmental assessments during the construction of ⁠the bridge.

• The five-judge arbitration panel did not award any reparations and ordered both parties to pay their own legal costs ⁠for the procedure that lasted a decade.

• The case is one ​of several proceedings at international courts and institutions Kyiv has pressed against Russia linked to the 2014 annexation of Crimea and Moscow's ‌full-scale invasion in 2022.

• The Kerch Strait bridge is crucial for the supply of fuel, ‌food and other products to Crimea, where the port ⁠of Sevastopol is the ‌historic home base of ​Russia's Black Sea Fleet.

(Reporting by Stephanie van den Berg in The Hague, Netherlands; Editing by Matthew ‌Lewis)

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