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OSCE Adopts Ukrainian-Backed Resolution Condemning Russian War Crimes
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At its latest plenary session, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Parliamentary Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a Ukrainian-backed resolution condemning Russian aggression.
The annoumcement was made by Ukrainian Member of Parliament Mykyta Poturayev on Facebook on June 29.
The resolution outlines Russia’s full-scale crimes against Ukraine—including war crimes, crimes against humanity, and acts of aggression—and calls for continued international support for Ukraine across military, financial, and humanitarian lines.
In his address to the Assembly, Poturayev made clear that there can be no negotiations with an aggressor.
“With murderers, torturers, and rapists, there can be only one kind of discussion,” he said. “There can be no true peace with war criminals. Unpunished evil always returns — with a new war, sooner than anyone expects.”
The document also demands full accountability for Russia’s actions, including hybrid warfare, forced deportations, the destruction of cultural heritage, and environmental crimes.
It outlines several urgent measures: the establishment of a special tribunal to prosecute the Russian leadership, the transfer of frozen Russian assets to Ukraine, the demilitarization of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, and strengthened safeguards for nuclear safety. It further calls for an end to the use of hunger as a weapon and the protection of ethnic minorities from forced assimilation and repression.
The OSCE urges Russia to immediately withdraw its forces, cease hostilities, release all civilian hostages and political prisoners — including abducted children — and return stolen equipment belonging to the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission.
The vote comes on the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act — a cornerstone of the modern international order that Russia is now openly violating.
Earlier, the European Union has officially extended its sectoral sanctions against Russia for another six months.
Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said that the European Union had formally agreed to extend sectoral sanctions on Russia. She emphasized that the EU would continue to apply pressure on Moscow to end its war in Ukraine, noting that each sanction further undermines Russia’s capacity to wage its aggression.
