"Any peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine that includes an amnesty for war crimes could encourage other authoritarian leaders to attack their neighbours, Ukraine's only Nobel peace prize winner has warned. Oleksandra Matviichuk said the leaked 28-point US-Russia plan did not account for the human dimension and she supported President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's efforts to rewrite it in dialogue with White House. We need a peace, but not a pause that provides Russia a chance to retreat and regroup, the Kyiv-based human rights lawyer said."
"The human rights lawyer argued that clause 26 of the initial US-Russia proposal, which said: All parties involved in this conflict will receive full amnesty for their actions during the war and agree not to make any claims or consider any complaints in the future, was particularly problematic. It would ruin international law and the UN Charter [which urges refraining from attacks on neighbours] to create a precedent that would encourage other authoritarian leaders, that you can invade a country, kill people and erase their identity, and you will be rewarded with new territories, she said."
Oleksandra Matviichuk, head of the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties and a 2022 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, warns that a peace agreement granting amnesty for war crimes would create a dangerous precedent encouraging other authoritarian leaders to invade neighbours. She criticizes the leaked 28-point US-Russia plan for neglecting the human dimension and supports President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's efforts to renegotiate it with the White House. Matviichuk insists that a durable settlement must include Nato-like security guarantees and rejects any pause that allows Russia to retreat and regroup. After nearly four years of attritional fighting and recurring infrastructure attacks, Ukrainians largely oppose territorial concessions without enforceable guarantees.
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