URU, Alm.del - 2021-22 - Bilag 144: Henvendelse af 2. marts 2022 fra det ukrainske parlaments udenrigsudvalg om anmodning om støtte i forbindelse med Ruslands invasion

Udenrigsudvalget 2021-22, Dansk Interparlamentarisk Gruppes bestyrelse 2021-22
URU Alm.del Bilag 144, IPU Alm.del Bilag 6
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VERKHOVNA RADA OF UKRAINE

Committee on Foreign Affairs and Inter-parliamentary Cooperation

5, Hrushevskoho Str, Kyiv, 01008, Ukraine, tel.:+38 044 255 35 49

2, March 2022

Kyiv

Dear colleagues.

Today, the whole world is witnessing the largest armed conflict in Europe since the

end of World War II - the large-scale invasion of the Russian Federation against Ukraine.

Since Russia's occupation of Ukraine's Crimea and Donbas, Russia has consistently evaded

its international obligations under international law and other agreements, including the

Minsk Agreements, while falsely asserting respect for Ukraine's territorial integrity and

sovereignty.

On the night of February 24, 2022, the Russian Federation insidiously launched

missile strikes throughout Ukraine and launched a large-scale invasion on the territory of

Ukraine. During these days, Russia has fired more than a hundred of ground-based and

navy-based operational-tactical missiles «Iskander» and «Caliber» on peaceful towns and

villages of Ukraine, despite the norms of the international law the cluster bombing was

used in Kharkiv city and Okhtyrka (Sumy region) was bombed with aviation thermobaric

bomb. These bloody crimes of the Putin regime are a flagrant violation of international

humanitarian law and require an international criminal investigation.

Every day we record numerous war crimes committed by the Armed Forces of the

Russian Federation under the leadership of their President Vladimir Putin. Every hour we

lose the best sons and daughters of the Ukrainian people, thousands are injured or forced

to leave their homes. The Russian soldiers are destroying homes, hospitals, kindergartens

and schools with unprecedented brutality, killing civilians in cold blood.

They are firing with MRLS «Grad», cruise missiles and unguided bombs in

residential areas of Ukrainian cities, including illicit weapons, killing women and children,

as well as citizens of European Union member states in Ukraine. Russia is shelling

humanitarian corridors, ignoring our requests to allow the removal of women, children,

orphans, and people with limited mobility. Russia, having raised white flags, shells with

heavy weapons children's hospitals and maternity hospitals and shoots unarmed civilians

in the back.

As a result of constant artillery shelling, the towns of Volnovakha, Shchastya, and

Stanytsia Luhanska in Luhansk Oblast, are on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe, the

cities are destroyed, most of residents are hiding in shelters and basements, they are lack

of food, drinking water and medicine. They have no medical care, electricity, water and

heating. Houses and social infrastructure were severely damaged by the shelling.

URU, Alm.del - 2021-22 - Bilag 144: Henvendelse af 2. marts 2022 fra det ukrainske parlaments udenrigsudvalg om anmodning om støtte i forbindelse med Ruslands invasion

The cities of Nova Kakhovka and Tavriysk are completely blocked, there is no

possibility to provide food and even basic medicine. Russian troops do not allow the

evacuation of residents of the affected cities, they shell evacuation buses with the "Grads",

take civilians as hostages and hide behind them as a human shield. Kharkiv city, which is

under constant bombardment, is close to humanitarian crisis and it is impossible to

evacuate children and the elderly.

Russian occupation forces have seized the Chornobyl nuclear power plant, in the

vicinity of which, radiation levels have already been exceeded. The troops of the Russian

Federation are also fighting in the nearest vicinity of other nuclear power plants, what is a

threat of an environmental and humanitarian catastrophe not only for Ukraine and Europe,

but also for the whole world.

Ukraine is fighting the aggressor for its independence, for the European choice of

the Ukrainian people, we are fighting for all the values that are the fundamental for the

European Union. It is a war for the existence of concepts such as respect for human dignity,

freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and human rights for the whole world. At

this time, the Ukrainian Army and the entire Ukrainian people defend their homeland, their

historical and civilizational choices. In his speeches, Putin unjustifiably accuses Ukraine

and NATO member states, what confirms that Europe’s fate is being decided in Ukraine:

if Putin does not get a decent rebuff now, he will move on.

In this regard, we ask the Parliaments of the Member States of the European Union

convene urgent meetings and support us in this struggle, and decide on:

1) Immediate establishment of a no-flight zone over the territory of Ukraine

(At least the humanitarian airlift passage-«freedom corridor»).

2) Providing military assistance to protect Ukraine in the fight against the

aggressor and call on their governments to provide comprehensive support

to Ukraine, approving the decision to provide massive defense assistance,

including to the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Territorial Defense units

with fuel, counter-air defense, man-portable air-defense systems,

ammunition, military equipment, helmets and bulletproof vests, medicines

and communications equipment.

3) Providing humanitarian assistance to victims and civilians to meet the

priority needs of people in food, clothing, first aid, as well as opening

humanitarian (green) corridors for the safe evacuation of women, children

and the elderly and ensuring their safety in direct cooperation with the

International Committee of the Red Cross in accordance with their

mandate under the 1949 Geneva Conventions.

4) Support for the decision of the European Parliament on the immediate

granting of Ukraine the status of a candidate country on the basis of Article

49 of the Treaty on European Union and the immediate acceleration of

Ukraine's accession to the European Union under a special procedure.

5) Continuation of imposing and increasing, along with international financial

organizations, comprehensive economic and financial sanctions, including

the freezing of government and private assets of the Russian Federation and

the introduction of an embargo on trade in Russian gas and oil.

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6) Initiate the establishment of a collective peace-keeping force on the basis of

UN GA Resolution 377 (V)

“Uniting

for peace” dated November 3, 1950, on

Korea (1950) allowing GA to issue such recommendations upon request of

any 7 UN Security Council members or majority of the General Assembly

members.

Ukraine will definitely win - and so will Europe, democracy and our common values.

We are together on our way to victory!

Yours sincerely,

Chairman of the Committee

Oleksandr MEREZHKO

To the attention of the

Committees on foreign affairs

of the European Union Members States

ЄАС ВЕРХОВНОЇ РАДИ УКРАЇНИ

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