Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has ordered the drafting of a UN General Assembly resolution on the creation of a special international tribunal to try the Russian military and political leadership for the crime of aggression against Ukraine. This issue was discussed at a meeting chaired by the head of state, Ukrinform reports, citing the presidential press service.
Zelensky said that Russian occupation forces in Ukraine resorted to the most severe forms of aggression, including illegal annexation of territories, murder, torture, rape of civilians, genocide, destruction of civilian infrastructure, etc.
"The tribunal is necessary to punish the aggressor who started an unprovoked war against our country and thus restore justice," he said.
According to him, if Russia is not punished for the crime of aggression, the global security architecture will be destroyed and no country will feel protected anymore.
Zelensky also ordered the drafting of a UN General Assembly resolution on the need to establish a special international tribunal that would be coordinated with the position of Ukraine's partners.
The participants in the meeting also made a decision to analyze the mechanism of the tribunal's establishment through the signing of an international agreement by a number of partner countries. At the same time, the remaining states will have the opportunity to support the tribunal's activities and recognize its decisions without being founders.
Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Smyrnov, in turn, said that the brutality of this war on the part of the Russian leadership and military is beyond all acceptable limits.
"This is the largest war in Europe since the Second World War, and the international community's response to it should be corresponding," he said.
Ukraine and its partners are promoting the creation of a special tribunal to prosecute the Russian leadership for the crime of aggression against Ukraine.
The creation of such a tribunal was supported by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the European Parliament, the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and individual states.