Udenrigsudvalget 2021-22, Dansk Interparlamentarisk Gruppes bestyrelse 2021-22
URU Alm.del Bilag 144, IPU Alm.del Bilag 6
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VERKHOVNA RADA OF UKRAINE
Committee on Foreign Affairs and Inter-parliamentary Cooperation
5, Hrushevskoho Str, Kyiv, 01008, Ukraine, tel.:+38 044 255 35 49
2, March 2022
Kyiv
Dear colleagues.
Today, the whole world is witnessing the largest armed conflict in Europe since the
end of World War II - the large-scale invasion of the Russian Federation against Ukraine.
Since Russia's occupation of Ukraine's Crimea and Donbas, Russia has consistently evaded
its international obligations under international law and other agreements, including the
Minsk Agreements, while falsely asserting respect for Ukraine's territorial integrity and
sovereignty.
On the night of February 24, 2022, the Russian Federation insidiously launched
missile strikes throughout Ukraine and launched a large-scale invasion on the territory of
Ukraine. During these days, Russia has fired more than a hundred of ground-based and
navy-based operational-tactical missiles «Iskander» and «Caliber» on peaceful towns and
villages of Ukraine, despite the norms of the international law the cluster bombing was
used in Kharkiv city and Okhtyrka (Sumy region) was bombed with aviation thermobaric
bomb. These bloody crimes of the Putin regime are a flagrant violation of international
humanitarian law and require an international criminal investigation.
Every day we record numerous war crimes committed by the Armed Forces of the
Russian Federation under the leadership of their President Vladimir Putin. Every hour we
lose the best sons and daughters of the Ukrainian people, thousands are injured or forced
to leave their homes. The Russian soldiers are destroying homes, hospitals, kindergartens
and schools with unprecedented brutality, killing civilians in cold blood.
They are firing with MRLS «Grad», cruise missiles and unguided bombs in
residential areas of Ukrainian cities, including illicit weapons, killing women and children,
as well as citizens of European Union member states in Ukraine. Russia is shelling
humanitarian corridors, ignoring our requests to allow the removal of women, children,
orphans, and people with limited mobility. Russia, having raised white flags, shells with
heavy weapons children's hospitals and maternity hospitals and shoots unarmed civilians
in the back.
As a result of constant artillery shelling, the towns of Volnovakha, Shchastya, and
Stanytsia Luhanska in Luhansk Oblast, are on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe, the
cities are destroyed, most of residents are hiding in shelters and basements, they are lack
of food, drinking water and medicine. They have no medical care, electricity, water and
heating. Houses and social infrastructure were severely damaged by the shelling.
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The cities of Nova Kakhovka and Tavriysk are completely blocked, there is no
possibility to provide food and even basic medicine. Russian troops do not allow the
evacuation of residents of the affected cities, they shell evacuation buses with the "Grads",
take civilians as hostages and hide behind them as a human shield. Kharkiv city, which is
under constant bombardment, is close to humanitarian crisis and it is impossible to
evacuate children and the elderly.
Russian occupation forces have seized the Chornobyl nuclear power plant, in the
vicinity of which, radiation levels have already been exceeded. The troops of the Russian
Federation are also fighting in the nearest vicinity of other nuclear power plants, what is a
threat of an environmental and humanitarian catastrophe not only for Ukraine and Europe,
but also for the whole world.
Ukraine is fighting the aggressor for its independence, for the European choice of
the Ukrainian people, we are fighting for all the values that are the fundamental for the
European Union. It is a war for the existence of concepts such as respect for human dignity,
freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and human rights for the whole world. At
this time, the Ukrainian Army and the entire Ukrainian people defend their homeland, their
historical and civilizational choices. In his speeches, Putin unjustifiably accuses Ukraine
and NATO member states, what confirms that Europe’s fate is being decided in Ukraine:
if Putin does not get a decent rebuff now, he will move on.
In this regard, we ask the Parliaments of the Member States of the European Union
convene urgent meetings and support us in this struggle, and decide on:
1) Immediate establishment of a no-flight zone over the territory of Ukraine
(At least the humanitarian airlift passage-«freedom corridor»).
2) Providing military assistance to protect Ukraine in the fight against the
aggressor and call on their governments to provide comprehensive support
to Ukraine, approving the decision to provide massive defense assistance,
including to the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Territorial Defense units
with fuel, counter-air defense, man-portable air-defense systems,
ammunition, military equipment, helmets and bulletproof vests, medicines
and communications equipment.
3) Providing humanitarian assistance to victims and civilians to meet the
priority needs of people in food, clothing, first aid, as well as opening
humanitarian (green) corridors for the safe evacuation of women, children
and the elderly and ensuring their safety in direct cooperation with the
International Committee of the Red Cross in accordance with their
mandate under the 1949 Geneva Conventions.
4) Support for the decision of the European Parliament on the immediate
granting of Ukraine the status of a candidate country on the basis of Article
49 of the Treaty on European Union and the immediate acceleration of
Ukraine's accession to the European Union under a special procedure.
5) Continuation of imposing and increasing, along with international financial
organizations, comprehensive economic and financial sanctions, including
the freezing of government and private assets of the Russian Federation and
the introduction of an embargo on trade in Russian gas and oil.
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6) Initiate the establishment of a collective peace-keeping force on the basis of
UN GA Resolution 377 (V)
“Uniting
for peace” dated November 3, 1950, on
Korea (1950) allowing GA to issue such recommendations upon request of
any 7 UN Security Council members or majority of the General Assembly
members.
Ukraine will definitely win - and so will Europe, democracy and our common values.
We are together on our way to victory!
Yours sincerely,
Chairman of the Committee
Oleksandr MEREZHKO
To the attention of the
Committees on foreign affairs
of the European Union Members States
ЄАС ВЕРХОВНОЇ РАДИ УКРАЇНИ
Підписувач:Мережко Олекса�½др Олекса�½дрович
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Апарат Верхов�½ої Ради Украї�½и
№ 82д9/3-2022/54310 від
02.03.2022
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