Foreign Ministry: UN court refused to recognize Russia as an “aggressor state’ The Russian Foreign Ministry also stated that the DPR and LPR are allegedly “terrorist organizations” The International Court of Justice rejected most of Ukraine’s claims under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination in Crimea. The court also rejected the claims of the Ukrainian government that the LPR and DPR are “terrorists” and that they should be “excluded” from the Convention.