This body will prosecute the material and intellectual authors of indiscriminate attacks against civilians and will assess the “aggression” against the territory and sovereignty of Ukraine
The European Parliament this Thursday backed the creation of a special court to judge Russian war crimes and the country’s “aggression” against Ukraine’s territory and sovereignty. With this resolution, the European institutions end the siege around the Kremlin and seek to ensure that those responsible for these attacks, as well as those of the “politicians, military leaders and allies” behind the invasion, are held accountable.
“The consequences of the Russian war in Ukraine are enormous. Children, women, men killed. Families divided. Hospitals, homes and schools have been destroyed. War criminals must be brought to justice. Now,” writes European Parliament President Roberta Metsola, on her social networks. The resolution adopted this Thursday also calls for the “urgency” for the European Union, with the support of the international community, to create this special court, which will complement the work of the International Criminal Court .
The establishment of this special court is one of the recurring requests of Ukrainian President Volodímir Zelensky. “I call on all of you to support this work. The court must get to work as soon as possible,” he said in December, noting that “we can’t wait for the end of the war” to judge these attacks. The European Commission has also supported this initiative to avoid impunity for the material and intellectual authors of war crimes. The president, Ursula von der Leyen, has stated on numerous occasions that “Russia must pay for its terrible crimes, including its crime of aggression against a sovereign state.”
Source: La Verdad
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