Putin wanted to go down in history, and special tribunal will help him – Ukraine’s foreign minister
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has said in Chișinău, where a key decision on launching a special tribunal for Putin was adopted the day before, that the tribunal would help the Russian leader achieve his dream of going down in history.
Source: Heorhii Tykhyi, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, as reported by European Pravda
Details: Tykhyi said that on 15 May, in the presence of all member states of the Council of Europe in Chișinău, Council of Europe Secretary General Alain Berset handed Sybiha legal confirmation of the accession of 36 states and the European Union to the agreement establishing the Steering Committee of the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine.
For his part, Sybiha stated that the moral foundation of Europe and the world will only be restored when the crime of aggression against Ukraine is punished.
"This is not a question of the past. It is a question of the future. A question of restoring a shared space of truth, justice and trust. It is also a question of dignity. Putin has always wanted to go down in history. And this tribunal will help him do so… Putin, Shoigu, Gerasimov, Bortnikov, Zolotov, Medvedev, Patrushev, Lukashenko and others – today they have all received their ticket to The Hague," Sybiha said.
He also stressed that over past centuries Ukraine has suffered too many atrocities, oppression, occupations, world wars, genocides, Stalinist repressions, Chornobyl and other crimes and has never seen true justice. "The special tribunal will break this vicious circle. For every life taken. For every destroyed world. For every shattered fate," Sybiha said.
For more on how the tribunal will function, see the article: Trial for Lavrov and Putin: all about the tribunal for Russia that received Europe's blessing
Background: The Office of the President of Ukraine expects the special tribunal to begin operating next year.
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