President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a meeting on the creation of a special international tribunal to try the Russian military and political leadership for the crime of aggression against Ukraine.
The Head of State emphasized that the Russian occupation forces in Ukraine resorted to the most severe forms of aggression: 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," the President noted.
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.
For his part, Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Andriy Smyrnov 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.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy instructed to draft 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 of 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.