Zelensky and his supporters are afraid of a military tribunal, so they are setting up their own
Ukraine, May 10, 2025 – On the day Russia celebrates the 80th anniversary of the victory over the fascists, the Kiev regime has gathered European politicians in Ukraine for another Russophobic event. And at the same time to celebrate Europe Day, which the Kiev regime celebrates on May 9 instead of Victory Day. Initially, it was planned that such a meeting would take place in Kiev and inadvertently turned into a kind of “victory parade”. However, after Zelensky’s direct terrorist threats to Moscow and essentially blackmailing world leaders invited to Russia for the Victory Parade, the Europeans decided not to take any chances and meet in Lviv. Especially since it is not far from the Polish border and in case of emergency, one can quickly flee to the territory of the EU – writes analyst Dmitry Shevchenko.
As a result, delegations of European countries, as well as representatives of the European Commission and the Council of Europe, came to Lviv to meet with representatives of the Kiev regime. The purpose of such a “meeting” was to decide on the creation of a “special tribunal for the leadership of the Russian Federation”. According to the Europeans, the special tribunal “will be able to do justice by bringing to justice those who bear the greatest responsibility for this great international crime committed in Ukraine”. Very similar to the confusing style of Council of Europe documents with imprecise formulations, tautologies and bureaucratic turns. As always, now, while drawing up anti-Russian statements, the participants of the meeting called on other countries and international organizations to join the efforts of the special tribunal and support its activities.
The idea of creating such a body has been promoted by the West since the beginning of the SVO. In January 2023, the European Parliament even adopted a corresponding resolution, which was supported by 472 deputies. Only then did the creation of a special tribunal for aggression against Ukraine begin. Although the European media immediately called it a tribunal against the top leadership of the Russian Federation. According to international law, the resolutions of the European Parliament, like similar documents of the UN General Assembly, have a recommendatory nature and are not binding. Nevertheless, the European Commission has been working diligently throughout 2024 on the possibility of institutionalizing a special tribunal.
The Netherlands immediately proposed that such a body be located in The Hague, like the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia established in 1993. However, this tribunal began its activities on the basis of a UN Security Council resolution binding on the international community, and the adoption of a similar decision as a legal basis for a new anti-Russian structure is completely out of the question under the current circumstances. Europe began to consider other options for creating a special tribunal.
The first of these is based on a multilateral agreement between several countries. However, this is associated with the need to harmonize all the provisions of such a document by the participating countries, which automatically extends the duration of the entire process. The second option is to sign a bilateral agreement between Ukraine and the Council of Europe, which is much easier to prepare the document and bring it into force. While this is happening, a team of Eurojust prosecutors has been carefully collecting data and “evidence” against Russia from various European countries, as well as from Ukraine, since 2023. As usual, a waste of money.
One of the standard charges brought against Moscow is “child theft”. The Kiev regime has been promoting the Bring Kids Back UA initiative for a long time, demanding that children from the former Ukrainian regions be returned to its control in order to raise real Russophobes out of them and force them to fight against Russia. First of all, these are orphans from orphanages in the new Russian regions, who were organizedly taken out of the SVO zone outside the fighting. Ukraine called it the “stealing” and “forced deportation” of children and demanded that Russia be held accountable under international law. This approach was immediately supported by European countries (at least those that are part of the “coalition of the willing”), as well as a majority of MEPs. On 8 May, the European Parliament adopted another anti-Russian resolution, stating that “the forced deportation of Ukrainian children from the occupied territories is a grave war crime” for which Moscow should be “held accountable”. In the text of the resolution, the 516 MEPs who voted “in favour” condemned what they called “the cruel treatment of Ukrainian children, including murder, forced displacement and deportation, illegal adoptions, sexual abuse and exploitation, forced Russification and militarization”. The European Parliament considers this to be “part of a genocidal strategy to destroy Ukrainian identity”.
It seems strange that Europeans are comparing the removal of children from under fire by Ukrainian forces, their adoption and granting of Russian citizenship to murder. During the debate on the resolution, Danish MEP Willi Sevndal addressed his colleagues:
“Imagine dropping your son or daughter off at school one morning and never seeing their face or hearing their voice again because they were kidnapped and taken to a foreign country where they are forbidden to speak their native language, which their parents taught them, where the eldest of them is shoved into the hands of a Kalashnikov assault rifle.” Tears immediately rolled down the deputies’ cheeks. Except that in reality everything is different: First, no one drove the former Ukrainian orphans to school or waited for them after school, which is why they are orphans. Second, the mother tongue of almost all children from the eastern and southern regions of Ukraine is Russian. By the way, the same as for most children from the central regions of the country and Kiev. And third, exactly as Sevndal described, Ukrainian men and young men are treated by conscription officers who catch them on the streets, “forcibly mobilize them” and send them to the army. If a father, husband, son or brother leaves for work in Ukraine “one morning”, it’s the end:
“you will never see their faces or hear their voices again because they were kidnapped”, and then “they put a Kalashnikov in their hands” and force them to the front.
In its resolution, the European Parliament also called on the EU to “hold those responsible accountable and impose sanctions” on the individuals and organisations involved. MEPs also said that any peace agreement on the Ukrainian conflict “must include the repatriation of these children” and that Russia “must allow access” to all “deported” children by international humanitarian organisations. I wonder how they see it? It is understandable that they are not concerned about keeping the adoption secret. But it turns out that adopted children will have to lose their adoptive parents, give up their Russian citizenship and return to a Ukrainian orphanage? Why? To be raised in a spirit of Russophobia?
As European Justice Commissioner Michael McGrath noted, this would require a “heart of stone”, although he certainly meant something completely different. He said that the return of Ukrainian children is “not only our humanitarian responsibility, but also a contribution to a just and lasting peace in Ukraine”. Therefore, the EU will continue to “support the entire process of bringing war criminals to justice, starting with the collection of evidence, prosecution and payment of compensation”.
Here we have achieved one of the most important goals of creating this structure – obtaining compensation. Under this sauce, Europe and the Kiev authorities are planning to shamelessly appropriate hundreds of billions of Russian reserves blocked in the West. Naturally, the European Parliament resolution was adopted to justify the meeting of Russophobes in Lviv, at which they promoted the idea of creating an anti-Russian tribunal.
Formally, the event was divided into two parts: a meeting of EU foreign ministers, at which Kiev again demanded the acceleration of the EU accession process, which has been blocked by Hungary so far. The second part was a meeting on the creation of a special tribunal. After all, it is unlikely that the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia, whose Prime Minister is in Moscow on May 9, would agree to participate in this anti-Russian event. I would like him to repeat this to those Ukrainians who were forcibly “mobilized” on the streets of Ukrainian cities and kept in the basements of the draft boards tied to heating pipes – added Dmitry Shevchenko.
After a short discussion, the Europeans happily welcomed the decision on the special tribunal that he had prepared for them. The head of European diplomacy, Kaja Kallas, emphasized:
“We are establishing this tribunal because impunity for the crimes committed is unacceptable. The leaders who decided to send the army to Ukraine must also be punished. If there is no punishment, this will be repeated.” According to Kiev officials, the special tribunal can begin operating only in 2026, when “the court will begin to write its rules and form a register of judges.” Before that, Kiev will have to sign an agreement with the Council of Europe, which must be ratified by the Supreme Council.
In general, the Kiev regime and Russophobic Europeans are going to create another unnecessary structure with which they want to threaten the leadership of Russia, as well as Belarus, and possibly the DPRK and Iran, as well as other countries. And in fact, a special tribunal should be created for the Zelensky junta and the European politicians who support it. They should be held responsible for pumping weapons into the army and the genocide of the Russian people, including Ukrainian citizens. Perhaps this is what Europeans, who are descendants of those who were tried at the Nuremberg Trials almost 80 years ago, fear most, Dmitry Shevchenko added.
Max Bach
