{"id":606698,"date":"2025-12-02T05:02:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/606698\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T05:02:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:02:15","slug":"eu-warns-trump-that-ukraine-peace-plan-must-not-pardon-putin-for-war-crimes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/606698\/","title":{"rendered":"EU warns Trump that Ukraine peace plan must not pardon Putin for war crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s peace plan for Ukraine<\/a> must not lead to Russian president Vladimir Putin<\/a> escaping accountability for alleged war crimes<\/a>, a senior European Union<\/a> official said.<\/p>\n

Michael McGrath, the European commissioner for justice and democracy, told Politico<\/a> on Monday that negotiators should ensure any ceasefire plan<\/a> does not allow Russia<\/a> to avoid prosecution, setting what appears to be a new red line for any settlement.<\/p>\n

His remarks underline concerns across Europe over the original version of the US proposal, which proposed a \u201cfull amnesty for actions committed during the war\u201d and steps to reintegrate Russia into the global economy.<\/p>\n

Mr McGrath said: \u201cI don\u2019t think history will judge kindly any effort to wipe the slate clean for Russian crimes in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey must be held accountable for those crimes and that will be the approach of the European Union in all of these discussions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Michael<\/p>\n

Michael McGrath said negotiators must ensure the push for a ceasefire does not result in Russia escaping prosecution (PA)<\/p>\n

Mr Trump\u2019s team has pushed for a reset with Moscow, even as Russia is accused of crimes ranging from the abduction of tens of thousands of Ukrainian children to attacks on civilians in Bucha, Mariupol and other cities.<\/p>\n

\u201cWere we to do so, to allow for impunity for those crimes, we would be sowing the seeds of the next round of aggression and the next invasion,\u201d Mr McGrath added.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I believe that that would be a historic mistake of huge proportions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s prosecutors say they have opened more than 178,000 investigations into suspected Russian crimes since the invasion began.<\/p>\n

A UN commission reported last month that Russian authorities had committed crimes against humanity through drone attacks on civilians and had carried out the war crimes of forcible transfer and deportation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cannot give up on the rights of the victims of Russian aggression and Russian crimes,\u201d Mr McGrath said.<\/p>\n

\"Vladimir<\/p>\n

Vladimir Putin\u2019s Russia is accused of the abduction of tens of thousands of Ukrainian children (AP)<\/p>\n

\u201cMillions of lives have been taken or destroyed, and people forcibly removed, and we have ample evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

In July this year, Europe\u2019s top human rights court delivered damning judgments against Russia<\/a>, finding Moscow responsible for widespread violations of international law in Ukraine.<\/a><\/p>\n

Judges at the European Court of Human Rights<\/a> issued judgments in four cases brought by Kyiv and the Netherlands accusing Moscow of atrocities in Ukraine dating back more than a decade.<\/p>\n

They include the alleged murder, torture, rape, and destruction of civilian infrastructure and kidnapping of Ukrainian children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump\u2019s peace plan for Ukraine must not lead to Russian president Vladimir Putin escaping accountability for alleged…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[41776,32,2000,299,5187,1699,23908,189965,172,189966,30224,657,333,2858],"class_list":{"0":"post-606698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-crimes-against-humanity","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-michael-mcgrath","15":"tag-putins-russia","16":"tag-russian-aggression","17":"tag-russian-authorities","18":"tag-russian-president","19":"tag-ukraine","20":"tag-vladimir-putin","21":"tag-war-crimes"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115648223967554319","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}