Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has called for support for the special tribunal for the crime of aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, opening a special ministerial event on the sidelines of the 52nd session of the UN Human Rights Council "Aggression against Ukraine: Impact on Human rights and the humanitarian situation in Ukraine and the world" on Monday.

According to the press service of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, 55 countries took part in the event, including Belgium, Denmark, Iceland, Costa Rica, Liechtenstein, Marshall Islands, Slovenia, France, Sweden at the level of foreign ministers.

"We do not stop working for a moment on the creation of a special tribunal to bring to justice the political and military leadership of Russia and their henchmen for the crime of aggression against Ukraine. All the atrocities of the Russians are derived from it. It is necessary to eliminate the causes, not just the symptoms," Kuleba said.

The Ukrainian Foreign Minister also drew attention to numerous violations by Russians of international humanitarian law and human rights, war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, in particular the abduction of Ukrainian children and their forced adoption in Russian families. "Russia embodies, perhaps, the largest child abduction operation in modern history. The Convention on the Prevention of Genocide clearly defines this as a crime of genocide. These children need immediate protection and return home. All Russian criminals involved in this operation should be held accountable for their participation in the genocide," the Minister stressed.

Kuleba also called on the member states of the UN Human Rights Council to extend the mandate of the UN International Independent Commission to Investigate Violations in Ukraine. "The International Independent Commission of the United Nations documents evidence of large-scale and systemic violations of human rights by Russia, war crimes, crimes against humanity, which will be used in future international trials. The continuation of the mandate will be a significant contribution to ensuring justice," he stressed.

The Ukrainian Foreign Minister expressed gratitude to the UN and other international organizations and their donors for helping Ukrainians during the full-scale aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine.

On January 26, representatives of 21 states gathered in Prague for the founding meeting of the Coalition to create a special tribunal, organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine to work out the parameters for bringing the political and military leadership of the Russian Federation to justice for the crime of aggression against our state. On February 22, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine gathered 45 states for a high-level UN event dedicated to human rights violations during the Russian aggression, one of the key topics of which was the creation of a special tribunal.