Zelensky calls for a European security architecture to prevent future attacks from Russia in the delivery of the Sakharov

BRUSELAS, 14 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, has defended this Wednesday at the delivery of the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought that the European Parliament awards each year to reward the defense of Human Rights that Europe and Ukraine design a European "security architecture" to prevent the Russian invasion from being repeated in the future, in addition to calling for special courts to judge Russian war crimes in Ukraine.

In his speech accepting the prize, which was received with a long standing ovation by the MEPs, the Ukrainian president stressed that the Russian aggression seeks to deprive Europe of its freedom and insisted that the victory against Moscow must ensure that it does not "genocidal policies against the Ukrainian people" can be applied in the future.

"Ukraine and Europe have to achieve a new security architecture to guarantee international peace and the rule of law, it is part of our moral obligation", he assured in his speech before the plenary session of the European Parliament meeting in Strasbourg, France, for the last session of the year.

After denouncing the devastation that the Russian Army is causing in areas of Donbas, such as the city of Bakhmut, Zelensky has indicated that Ukraine defends the essential values ​​of the Sakharov Prize and has asked for support for the initiative to establish special courts to judge war crimes. of the Russian occupiers.

"I ask that you support this initiative," the Ukrainian leader urged, acknowledging that the European Parliament has always been in favor of the idea and insisting that the special court "must become a reality as soon as possible" and its performance must extend not only to the material authors of the crimes but to "those who initiated and instigated" the invasion, in reference to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The Eurochamber recognizes with the Sakharov prize the struggle and courage of the Ukrainian people against the Russian invasion, in the figure of Zelenski, it also gives the State Emergency Services of Ukraine; the founder of the "Angeles de Taira" medical evaluation unit, Yulia Pajevska; the human rights activist and president of the Center for Civil Liberties, Oleksandra Matviychuk; the Yellow Ribbon Civil Resistance Movement, and the mayor of the Ukrainian city of Melitopol, occupied by Russian forces, Ivan Fedorov.

Previously, the president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, has defended that the institution is on the side of Ukraine in the face of the Russian invasion, stressing that kyiv is waging a war for European values, values ​​that, she has said, on the continent are " take it for granted."

The Maltese 'popular' has reiterated that Ukrainians deserve the freedoms and democracy that Europeans enjoy, insisting that sometimes freedom and democracy seem like "abstract" issues in Europe, but are clearly perceived in the case of Ukraine when deprived of them by the Russian military offensive.