Putin said it openly. The main question for the world in the conditions of Russia's war against Ukraine

At the hearing in Nuremberg and Tokyo, it was found that aggression is the "highest international crime", for which the leaders of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan were sentenced to death. The decision of the Nuremberg Tribunal on this issue was clear: “The solution of an aggressive war is not just an international crime; It is the highest international crime that is different from other military crimes only in that it contains the accumulated evil as a whole.

" Since then, the international order has been relies on the territorial integrity of the states. To challenge this key principle of a violent act of aggression - the greatest international crime - means to bring the whole world to the risk of plunging into a mess, chaos and war. In the resolution adopted on March 2 this year, the UN General Assembly condemned Russia for committing this crime.

Considering Russia's invasion on February 24 into Ukraine as an act of aggression, the resolution requires that Russia "immediately, completely and unconditionally removes all its armed forces from the territory of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders. " However, Russia is not the first state to commit aggression - and not even the first permanent member of the UN Security Council that has done it.

The United States interfered with the affairs of other countries in their hemisphere, the Soviet Union invaded Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan during the Cold War, and China sent its troops to Vietnam in 1979. But Russia's aggressive war against Ukraine differs in that its obvious purpose is subordination, dismantling and, ultimately, the liquidation of Ukraine as a sovereign nation -state. Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared it openly and unambiguously.