The head of the International Association of Lawyers at a meeting with Andriy Smirnov supported the creation of an international tribunal for

The deputy head of the Presidential Office Andriy Smirnov discussed with the Executive Director of the International Association of Lawyers Mark Alice Elice to establish an international tribunal who will investigate the crime of aggression and judge the highest political leadership of Russia. “The scope of military crimes of Russians in Ukraine is striking. Since the beginning of the war, more than 40,000 war crimes have been committed in our country.

On the one hand, these are direct performers - Russian soldiers and rape officers who killed, killed, tortured and gave criminal orders. But the most important guilty - those who committed the "maternal crime" - aggression and came with the war to Ukraine. It is Vladimir Putin and other the highest military-political leadership of Russia, ”Andrey Smirnov said at the meeting.

In order to restore justice and punish the perpetrators of this aggression, it is necessary to consolidate the efforts of the entire international legal community. Our goal is a fair court and a legal retribution, the deputy head of the Presidential Office said. According to him, it is now that Ukraine must make it clear to all humanity that no one will escape from responsibility, as Hitler and the leadership of Nazi Germany did not avoid it in the 1940s.

“In order to achieve a legal retribution for the crime of aggression, we initiate the creation of a special international tribunal, whose mandate will be limited to proving guilt in the commission of a crime by Russia's aggression against Ukraine. I urge you to support this initiative. I urge to use all your significant potential for knowledge and skills so that no guilty is to avoid punishment.

And that we are witnessing the just court and the legal retribution of the country, the myth of which is quickly scattered in our eyes, ”Andrey Smirnov said. For his part, Mark Alice said he fully supports the creation of the International Tribunal. “The Russian leadership, in particular Vladimir Putin, despised the inviolable principles of international law, solving the war against Ukraine. Vladimir Putin committed the most serious crime - he made aggression against your country.

I believe that the court to be created should focus on a narrow question - Russia's aggression. And I and the International Association of Lawyers are ready to support the international tribunal and do everything in our power, in order for the crime of aggression to be punished, ”he said. The Executive Director of the International Association of Lawyers Mark Alice cooperated with the international tribunals on Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and initiated a program of support of judges in Iraq.