The European Commission will support Ukraine and the countries hosting Ukrainian refugees by committing one billion eurosannounced today the president of Ursula von der Leyen.
“Six hundred million will be given to Ukraine, to the Ukrainian authorities and partly to the United Nations,” von der Leyen said at a fundraising event for Ukraine in Warsaw.
“And 400 million euros will go to the front line countries that are doing such an excellent job and helping the refugees who are coming,” he said.
Full speed for war crimes tribunal
Earlier today, returning from Ukraine, Ursula von der Leyen stated that the atrocities revealed in Bouka are evidence of war crimes.
The commission’s president visited Ukraine on Friday to see the aftermath of Russian bombings in cities such as Bukhara.
“My instinct is, ‘If this is not a war crime, what is a war crime?’ “But I am a doctor and the lawyers must investigate it carefully,” von der Leyen told reporters on the train leaving Ukraine.
“I saw the photos, the Ukrainian prime minister showed them to me. To kill people while walking. We could also see with our own eyes that the disaster in the city is targeting the lives of citizens. The houses are not military targets, she said, referring to Boukas.
Yesterday, a team of medical examiners began the exhumation mass grave in Bouka.
The EU and other Western allies are helping Ukraine gather information on future war crimes prosecutions.
German Chancellor Olaf Solz went on the same wavelength, saying that “those who committed civilian deaths in Buca are guilty of war crimes and must be held accountable.”
“It’s something we can not forget,” he said, referring to civilian deaths in the city northwest of Kiev.
“We can not ignore the fact that this is a crime. “These are war crimes that we will not accept … those who committed them must be held accountable.”
After Russian troops withdrew from Bukha last week, Ukrainian officials say hundreds of civilians have been found dead.
A similar statement was made yesterday by the President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who speaking to the German magazine Der Spiegel called for the establishment of a war crimes tribunal against Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
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