Andriy Yermak and Robert Metzola called to support the creation of the International Tribunal for the political leadership of

The head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak notes that today, during the war with Russia, Ukrainians fight for their freedom, as well as seek justice, which is, in particular, in the punishment of those who came with weapons and violence to take away this freedom. He said about it, speaking in an online format at the Russian War Crimes exhibited in Brussels. “Without justice, without this punishment for the aggressor, the world will not be free. Fear will rule over it.

And this fear will become stronger. So, the world needs justice, ”Andrei Yermak emphasized. The head of the head of state informed about the scale of Russian military crimes in Ukraine. Thus, since February 24, Ukrainian law enforcement officers have recorded more than 45,000 crimes related to Russia's aggression, more than 31 thousand of them - war crimes. And these are only those data that are already known.

According to him, there is no final information yet how many thousands of inhabitants of the city of Mariupol died from Russian shells, bombs and missiles, how much died of a lack of medicines and food through blockade, how many were tortured to death or just shot. In addition, new tragedies can be opened after the liberation of every new Ukrainian city or village in the world. Separately, Andrey Yermak drew attention to the grief caused by Russian war criminals to children.

380 children were killed at the hands of the invaders and more than 700 were injured. 284 educational institutions were completely destroyed by Russian shelling, 2461 educational institutions were damaged. The head of the Presidential Office stressed that all military crimes have specific culprits - those who gave and obey criminal orders. But the most important culprits are those who started this war.

He is convinced that the fact of the largest armed aggression in Europe since 1945 should receive a fair rating from the world, as it was during the Nuremberg and Tokyo Tribunals after the end of World War II. Andriy Yermak is convinced that the responsibility for the Russian Federation should be double: at the state level and at the level of an individual citizen.

It is also important to ensure the personal responsibility of Russia's leadership for the most serious initial crime - a crime of aggression. "He is often called the" mother of all crimes " - The Supreme International Crime. It is a crime that has absorbed all other international crimes (Acumulated Evil of the Whole), ”he explained.

The head of the Presidential Office reminded that Ukraine has initiated and has been working on the creation of a special international tribunal, which will judge all the highest leaders of the Russian Federation for military aggression against our country. “Proving the fact of a crime of aggression against Ukraine will be the basis for the sentence. It is either life imprisonment or considerable imprisonment.

And the actual execution of the sentence will take place as soon as one of the defendants will appear in the territory of the country that joined the treaty on the creation of a special international tribunal. There are three ways for this purpose: either an international treaty between Ukraine and other states, or an agreement with the UN, or an agreement with the EU or the Council of Europe, ”he said.

Andriy Yermak stressed that at the same time Ukraine is actively cooperating with the International Criminal Court in the Hague, and the creation of a special international tribunal on Russia's aggression against Ukraine will only complement the work of this court. For her part, the President of the European Parliament Robert Motzol said that the cruelty of war in Ukraine is going through all possible limits. “Ukrainians suffer for freedom of all of Europe.