Lower House speaker calls for international criminal tribunal for war crimes in Ukraine

The speaker of the lower house, Markéta Pekarová Adamová, has called for the establishment of a special international criminal tribunal to prosecute Russian war crimes in Ukraine.

Mrs. Pekarová-Adamová made the statement in the Chamber of Deputies on Thursday during a public hearing on Russian war crimes and human rights violations in Ukraine.

According to Daryna Pidhorna of the Ukrainian Regional Centre for Human Rights, who also attended the hearing, a tribunal must be established in Europe to hear and punish Russian war crimes.

The European Union has not yet agreed on the possibility of establishing a special tribunal over the war in Ukraine and is pushing for the country to join the International Criminal Court.