FM Lipavský backs call for special tribunal to try Russia on aggression charges

Russia should face an international tribunal for waging an aggressive war against Ukraine — according to a joint appeal published in the French daily Libération on the 80th anniversary of the opening of the Nuremberg Trials. The statement was signed by seven foreign ministers, among them Ukraine’s top diplomat Andriy Sybiha and his Czech counterpart Jan Lipavský.

“The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine proves that the crimes judged at Nuremberg have not been confined to history,” the ministers write. Establishing such a tribunal, they argue, is both a legal imperative and a historical duty since aggression must not be rewarded and violations of international law must not go unpunished. Alongside Sybiha and Lipavský, the appeal bears the signatures of the heads of diplomacy from the Baltic States, Norway and Moldova.