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The European Affairs Committee
of the Danish Parliament
Dear colleagues,
Today, the whole world is witnessing the largest armed conflict in Europe since the end
of World War II - the large-scale invasion of the Russian Federation against Ukraine.
Since Russia's occupation of Ukraine's Crimea and Donbas, Russia has consistently
evaded its international obligations under international law and other agreements,
including the Minsk Agreements, while falsely asserting respect for Ukraine's territorial
integrity and sovereignty.
On the night of February 24, 2022, the Russian Federation insidiously launched missile
strikes throughout Ukraine and launched a large-scale invasion on the territory of
Ukraine. During these days, Russia has fired more than a hundred of ground-based and
navy-based operational-tactical missiles «Iskander» and «Caliber» on peaceful towns
and villages of Ukraine, despite the norms of the international law the cluster bombing
was used in Kharkiv city and Okhtyrka (Sumy region) was bombed with aviation
thermobaric bomb. These bloody crimes of the Putin regime are a flagrant violation of
international humanitarian law and require an international criminal investigation.
Every day we record numerous war crimes committed by the Armed Forces of the
Russian Federation under the leadership of their President Vladimir Putin. Every hour
we lose the best sons and daughters of the Ukrainian people, thousands are injured or
forced to leave their homes. The Russian soldiers are destroying homes, hospitals,
kindergartens and schools with unprecedented brutality, killing civilians in cold blood.
They are firing with MRLS «Grad», cruise missiles and unguided bombs in residential
areas of Ukrainian cities, including illicit weapons, killing women and children, as well
as citizens of European Union member states in Ukraine. Russia is shelling humanitarian
corridors, ignoring our requests to allow the removal of women, children, orphans, and
people with limited mobility. Russia, having raised white flags, shells with heavy
weapons children's hospitals and maternity hospitals and shoots unarmed civilians in the
back.
As a result of constant artillery shelling, the towns of Volnovakha, Shchastya, and
Stanytsia Luhanska in Luhansk Oblast, are on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe,
the cities are destroyed, most of residents are hiding in shelters and basements, they are
lack of food, drinking water and medicine. They have no medical care, electricity, water
and heating. Houses and social infrastructure were severely damaged by the shelling.