On March 18, 2022, the scientific and pedagogical staff of the Faculty of Law took part in the International Expert Round Table on “Deoccupation. Legal Front”.
International experts and scholars from the United States, France, Poland, Estonia, Italy, Moldova, and leading Ukrainian scholars have raised a number of important issues that decide the fate of Ukraine, namely: protection of human rights in territories annexed and illegally controlled by Russia; the judicial front of the confrontation between Ukraine and the Russian Federation and the latter's responsibility for carrying out aggressive war and committing war crimes; regimes of international sanctions against Russia in connection with the aggression against Ukraine; responsibility of the Russian Federation for terrorist and cyberterrorist actions against Ukraine; qualification of the hybrid war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine and responsibility for its conduct, etc.
The coordinators of the conference provided their recommendations, which were discussed by the participants of the event and based on the approved conclusions developed a final document, which will be sent to the relevant government agencies and the media. The resolution of the document includes the following recommendations:
to adopt the Laws of Ukraine "On Compensation for Damage Caused to Ukraine by the Aggression of the Russian Federation" and "On Criminal Punishment of Individuals for Crimes of Aggression, Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes committed during the Russian Aggression against Ukraine";
make changes and additions to the criminal legislation of Ukraine to specify the content of Art. 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine and bringing it into line with modern practice of formulating a war crime;
to impose sanctions against Russia, which would be imposed on behalf of all mankind, the world community, and would be comprehensive, systematic and long-term because of terror, aggression, genocide, mass destruction of cultural heritage of global importance, caused other catastrophic and scale damage to the Ukrainian state, as well as certain losses to third countries that are forced to break political, financial, trade, military, scientific, technical and other cooperation with Russia as an aggressor state;
to involve all existing institutions and create new ones for the proper implementation of criminal justice, such as: the International Tribunal for Russian Aggression, the UN Security Council, the ICC, the ECHR, national hybrid courts. It is advisable to support the idea of the so-called "Kharkiv Tribunal" and so on.
The full record of the International Expert Round Table can be viewed by following the link: https://www.youtube.com/ watch? V = ALHUgxwVvu4.