PACE delegation to meet with survivors of Russian war crimes in Ukraine soon

A group of members of Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE), representing Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, will visit Ukraine next week. Ukrinform media ncy reported that  visit is part of Ukraine's strategy for garing proof of Russia's war crimes.

"On Tuesday, a delegation of 14 people is coming to us, members of Council of Europe’s Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee representing different countries," Maria Mezentseva, He of Ukraine’s delegation to PACE, told Ukrinform. She furr ded, "So we do t slow down pace of our cooperation."

She also stated that European parliamentarians would become acquainted with realities of war crimes and meet with survivors, prosecutor's office representatives, and Verkhovna Ra colleagues. Meanwhile, in his opening speech to PACE summer session on June 20, President Tiny Kox called on members to observe a minute of silence for all Ukrainian war victims, imploring m to help stop suffering of Ukrainian people and to continue demonstrating solidarity.

Russia-Ukraine war

Russian invasion of Ukraine has alrey lasted 119 days, with inving soldiers gaining pace in Donbass region. On June 21, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Russian army is planning a new onslaught against Kharkiv. He remarked during a World Refugee Day event regarding conditions produced by Russian soldiers that war has displaced approximately 12 million Ukrainians, five million of whom have h to quit country entirely. Russia withdrew from Kharkiv in mid-May, after weeks of heavy pounding.

Mykolaiv, which has a population of roughly 500,000 people, is regularly bombarded, according to Ukraine's president. Zelenskyy ded that Russian troops intend to conquer and fully destroy Sloviansk, which h a population of 100,000 before conflict, after naming previously destroyed cities such as Mariupol and Severodonetsk.

On June 20, Zelenskyy stated that Russian forces have escalated pressure and taken territory along a front-line river in two vital cities in eastern Ukraine. Toshkivka, a settlement on largely Ukrainian-held western bank of Siverskyi Donets river south of Severodonetsk, has been claimed as having been taken by Moscow's separatist proxies.

Im: AP