Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered a speech at the International Criminal Court in The Hague

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke at the International Criminal Court in The Hague to representatives of the public, political and expert circles of the Netherlands and international institutions.

“We would all like to see a different Vladimir in The Hague – one who deserves to be convicted of criminal acts,” the Ukrainian president said at first, “I am sure that this will happen when we win,” he added.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the fate of not only one country is at stake in this war, adding that we “cannot stop aggressive wars, but we can defeat aggression as a criminal idea that originates in the minds of people who are accustomed to impunity.”

“If you look at any aggressive war, they all have one thing in common – the perpetrator of the war did not believe that they would have to answer for what they did,” the Ukrainian president said.

During his speech, the president also called for honoring the memory of those who died in various wars, including World War II.

“Please also remember the Ukrainians who could have stayed alive if not for this aggression. If not for the war, which we did not want, which we want to make the last war in the world, and we will do it,” he said.

He then assured that the Ukrainian courts would do everything to ensure that the Russian occupiers were held accountable for their crimes, but only the tribunal, he said, could bring them to justice for crimes of aggression.

The President of Ukraine thanked the International Criminal Court for its work in the name of justice and also thanked the Netherlands for supplying weapons to Ukraine.

Author: Daria Skotchenko

Photo: Press service of the Office of the President of Ukraine