The Verkhovna Rada appealed to the international community to bring to justice all those involved in the atrocities of the russian occupiers in Bucha, Irpen, Gostomel, and other Ukrainian settlements.
Deputies are asking to start an investigation as soon as possible, Verkhovna Rada Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk wrote on Facebook. He and his colleagues visited Irpin and Bucha.
"We ask you to start an investigation as soon as possible, stifle the aggressor country with sanctions, urgently help with weapons, exclude russia from all international organizations and not recognize it as a member of the UN," he said.
Stefanchuk stressed that russia must become an exile around the world for what it is doing to Ukraine. Impunity for evil breeds even more evil.
The appeal concerns the UN, the European Parliament, the PACE, the OSCE Parliamentary Assemblies, NATO, the BSEC, governments, and parliaments of foreign countries.
The document emphasizes that the tortured and killed civilians of Bucha, Gostomel, Irpin, and other towns and villages were left by the occupiers in the open air and buried in mass graves. Hundreds of people were killed during evacuation attempts.
It states that all these crimes were supported by the Russian leadership.
In response to war crimes, deputies in particular call for:
- to bring to justice the military-political leadership of Russia and the military involved
- to organize the arrival of the International Criminal Court in the cities of atrocities of Russian soldiers to gather evidence
- immediately approve new sanctions, including a full embargo on Russian gas, oil, and coal, close all ports to Russian ships, disconnect all its banks from SWIFT
- to promote the provision of modern weapons to Ukraine - offensive and defensive
- not to recognize Russia as a member of the United Nations
In the cities of the Kyiv region (as in others), the Russian occupiers tortured civilians. The scale of the atrocities became known after the liberation of towns and villages. The world community expresses "deep shock" and promises new sanctions against Russia, in particular against the import of its energy resources.