The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has called on Ukraine to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and revise the new Ukrainian legislation on enforcing sovereignty in Donbas to make sure it is based on the Minsk Agreements.

"The Assembly urges the Ukrainian authorities to revise the Law 'On the peculiarities of the State policy to ensure the State sovereignty of Ukraine over the temporarily occupied territories in Donetsk and Luhansk regions,' to be based on the Minsk agreements and to fully guarantee the social protection and the basic humanitarian needs of the civilian population in the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions," PACE said in its resolution.

It also urged Ukraine to ratify the Rome Statute and bring the Ukrainian Criminal Code and Criminal Procedure Code into line with international humanitarian and criminal law.

The resolution also calls on Ukraine to free Russian citizens detained in the course of hostilities and, until this is done, to allow independent international observers to monitor their condition.