Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, stated in a speech to the nation on Friday that representatives of the nation had proposed to world leaders the notion of setting up an ad hoc international tribunal to hold Russia accountable for war crimes committed during its invasion of Ukraine.
The suggestion, according to Zelensky, was made at a gathering of a group attempting to advance Ukraine’s membership in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), an intergovernmental organization of democratic countries with market-based economies that seeks to promote economic growth.
“This is an extremely important direction, which is important both in the context of European integration and in the context of the internal transformation of our state,” Zelensky said as quoted by The Hill.
The conference, according to him, was attended by ambassadors from the G-7, a grouping of the seven greatest economies in the world, as well as other partner nations.
In the retaken city of Izyum, Ukrainian authorities discovered a mass grave this week, and Zelensky said in his presentation on Friday that “torture rooms” where citizens were mistreated had been discovered in regions of the Kharkiv region that had been freed from Russian rule.
On Friday, the UN said that investigators already present in Ukraine will look into the mass grave in Izyum.
After Russian soldiers left earlier this year, mass graves were also discovered in the city of Bucha, which is located north of the Ukrainian capital, Kiev.
Since the beginning of the conflict, Ukraine has worked to enhance its ties to the rest of Europe. In May, the nation submitted an application to join the OECD, and in June, it was recognized as a prospective member of the EU.
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