President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that the state would insist on an international tribunal for Russian war criminals, but there are Ukrainians who will look for the occupiers on their own.
The trial of the Russian occupiers can take a long time and people will not have enough patience.
Zelensky spoke about this in an interview with the Polish media.
“We know that the tribunal is long, but we know for sure the history of fascism, Nazism, we know the history of Israel and Yugoslavia. We know that these steps are long, and people will not have enough patience. And sometimes it happens that family life is not enough … We we will insist on an international tribunal. If there are people, there will be sentences. It is a matter of time,” the head of state said.
He added that after all the war crimes committed by the Russian invaders, many Ukrainians have appeared who will independently look for the perpetrators for “revenge of a just revenge.”
“I know that in our society there are people who will look for all of them . I know. And there’s nothing to be done. And this is no threat. I tell you this frankly, as a father, as a husband. I know that we there are a lot of such people in Ukraine. How our people fought, they have already proved that there are many of them. Therefore, someone will wait for the international court, and someone will wait, as they say, for the night,” Zelensky said.
At the same time, he expressed his conviction that there should be historical justice – a court verdict for the perpetrators, because “one murder or one revenge – they will be forgotten anyway.”
“For historically, no one will forgive this, it must remain in books . This must be passed on to generations so that such things do not happen again. Because it must be offensive to the people and the state that took part in this. Even to the next generations. As with Germany “ They feel it. Modern Germans, of course, have nothing to do with it, we understand this, but they still feel that they are related to this historical responsibility. This is important,” the president summed up.
Recall that on April 28, PACE adopted a resolution proposing to urgently create a special international tribunal to investigate war crimes in the course of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.
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