In order for Russia to be held fully responsible for the crime of aggression against Ukraine, two separate legal mechanisms must be created: a Special Tribunal and an international compensation mechanism based on the register of losses.
Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal has met with Prime Minister of Iceland Katrín Jakobsdóttir in Kyiv. The parties discussed cooperation in the energy sector, sanctions policy against Russia, and the establishment of a Special International Tribunal for Russia’s crime of aggression against Ukraine.
The Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office has already identified 642 suspects in the case of Russia’s crime of aggression against Ukraine, including Russian top military and political figures.
Ukraine seeks to include the phrase "international mechanism to condemn the crime of aggression" in the draft resolution of the UN General Assembly on accountability for war crimes in Ukraine and support for the special tribunal to prosecute Russia, and expects the document to be adopted in April.
Ukraine is interested both in the extension and the expansion of the Black Sea Grain Initiative (in terms of geography and the list of export items) and takes relevant steps in this direction despite Russia's attempts to slow down the work of the grain corridor.
With the support of the European Investment Bank, Ukraine plans to build 5 biomethane plants by the end of the year, as well as five more next year, which will bring Ukraine closer to replacing natural gas imports.
President of the Swiss Confederation Alain Berset says that Switzerland’s neutrality is more important than ever which does not allow the country to send weapons to Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine to Oleksandr Matsievskyi, a Ukrainian serviceman who had been executed by the Russian military after saying ‘Glory to Ukraine’.
The HALO Trust, a global mine-clearing organization, estimates that mines and explosives in Ukraine may have contaminated a territory the size of Britain.