The UK’s foreign secretary Liz Truss has said the UK is open to the idea of an international criminal tribunal trying Vladimir Putin and other Russian leaders over the war in Ukraine.News link: https://bit.ly/3FXoZO7
US State Department announces new program to provide “evidence of Russia-perpetrated war crimes”. The Conflict Observatory will document and verify information on…
From Syria to South Sudan, and most recently Ukraine, United Nations investigative mandates establish the truth and gather evidence of potential international atrocity crimes to help lay the foundations of future accountability. In a soon-to-be-published report, Anchoring…
The Baltic states and Poland are demanding a significant expansion of NATO’s military presence on its territory and new capabilities such as air defense. But disagreements have arisen in the North Atlantic Alliance over the deployment of troops in Eastern Europe.News…
Late in the evening on May 16, buses began to take out the defenders of Mariupol, who had been defending the Azovstal metallurgical plant for many weeks. Many of them are injured. Earlier, the Kherson authorities announced a humanitarian crisis, and Severodonetsk, Lisichansk and Odessa region were subjected to massive shelling – there are dead.News link: https://bit.ly/3MlchuJ
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“Secretary Ostin reaffirmed the United States’ unwavering support for Ukraine’s efforts to preserve its sovereignty and security assistance to strengthen Ukraine’s ability to withstand Russian aggression,” – the Pentagon said in a…
NATO congratulated Ukraine on winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2022. and stated that it was “not a frivolous gesture, but a message to Putin”. The President of the European Council Charles Michel, the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen…
Ukraine won the Eurovision Song Contest 2022. At the end of their performance, Ukrainian band Kalush Orchestra called on the whole world to help the Ukrainian fighters who are currently surrounded in Azovstal: “Help Ukraine, Mariupol. Help Azovstal, right now!”.News link: https://bit.ly/3l7K5jg
Today at the Azovstal in Mariupol there are about 600 wounded in unsanitary conditions, without…
“During the war, Russia forcibly deported 1.2 million Ukrainians, including more than 210,000 children,” stated by Lyudmila Denisova, Ukraine’s ombudswoman for human rights.News link: https://bit.ly/3FIVvDk
The first trial of the occupiers’ war…
The UN Human Rights Council, by a majority vote, approved a resolution to launch an investigation into the abuses of the Russian military in Ukraine.News link: https://bit.ly/3MaYXt0
“The number of people who left Ukraine to escape the Russian invasion has exceeded…
FIRST LEGAL FORUM EU-EASTERN PARTNERSHIP
12.05.2022
The current situation on the international market clearly shows how important dialogue is. We have been planning First Legal EU-Eastern Partnership Forum for a year, but the war in Ukraine, which took the whole world by surprise, caused that the perspective of cooperation between the Eastern countries and the EU has completely changed. We were supposed to discuss trade in the context of…