On 21 August 2024, with an overwhelming 281 votes in favor out of 328 MPs present, the Verkhovna Rada adopted the Law to Ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and its amendments.
PGA has been further intensifying the efforts aimed at delivering accountability to Ukraine since the beginning of the war of aggression launched on 24 February 2022 by the Russian Federation against Ukraine.
The Russian Federation’s decision, implemented by a decree signed by the Russian President, further represents a unilateral violation the 2014-15 Minsk Peace Agreements
Grave crimes continue to be committed in the context of the ongoing armed conflict in Ukraine, which shows with no signs of abating. Ukraine is deprived of a fundamental method of recourse as a non-Member State of the International Criminal Court.