Senior British politicians of various ranks and views are calling for the creation of a special tribunal to show Vladimir Putin and his generals that they must be held accountable for the crimes committed by Russia on the territory of Ukraine. It is reported by The Guardian.

Thus, the newspaper writes, Labor leader Keir Starmer, former NATO Secretary General George Robertson, former Foreign Secretary David Owen and former Tory leader Ian Duncan Smith, say that the tribunal should be created to consider "

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While the International Criminal Court is already considering charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in connection with the invasion of Ukraine. Special tribunal to increase pressure on Russia and Putin, supporters say. This would ban Russian officials from traveling for fear of arrest, show solidarity with Ukraine that filed a tribunal request, and send a signal to the international community that aggression will not go unpunished.. It will also allow consideration of the role of Belarus.

“It has been 10 months since Russia, with the support of Belarus, carried out one of the biggest ground invasions of Europe since World War II.. Since then, thousands of Ukrainian civilians have been killed or injured, 8 million have become internally displaced, and about 8 million have become refugees.. Tens of billions worth of civilian infrastructure and economic assets have been destroyed or looted, and irreplaceable cultural monuments have been reduced to rubble,” the statement said..

“If these acts of aggression are proven in court, they could become what the Nuremberg Trials called the highest international crime.”. Because it is a crime of aggression, from which most other international crimes often follow - war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide..

The statement was prepared by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Philip Sands, the law professor who first raised the idea of \u200b\u200ba special tribunal.. Others who signed the statement include human rights lawyers Cherie Blair and Helena Kennedy..

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Recall that earlier Ambassador-at-Large of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Anton Korynevych said that it is not so difficult to prove Russia's war crimes on the territory of Ukraine, but the existing judicial instances may not be enough, so a special tribunal is needed for this.. And President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky called for the launch of an international tribunal for Russia without waiting for the end of the war.