STATEMENT of the Ukrainian Association of International Law and academic community of Ukraine
It is the seventh day, that Ukraine is standing against the Russian Federation in the course of full-scale armed aggression on its territory and a belligerent war against Ukrainian statehood, its sovereignty, and democracy.
Reaffirming the respect for the Charter of the United Nations, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of 1948, the Geneva Conventions of 1949, basic principles and rules of international humanitarian law, we shall recall that guaranteeing of the human right to life and rebuff to armed aggression is the erga omnes obligation of states (obligations towards the whole international community).
For the period of conducting a belligerent and aggressive war against Ukraine, the Russian Federation has committed and continues to commit war...