Overview
- The Council of Europe, the European Commission, and the European External Action Service signed an agreement to establish an advance team for the planned tribunal.
- EU High Representative Kaja Kallas announced on X that the EU has provided the first €10 million to support the tribunal’s work.
- Kallas said EU countries signed a corresponding agreement with the Council of Europe to support the tribunal’s establishment.
- The tribunal is being created under the Council of Europe to prosecute Russia’s leadership for the crime of aggression against Ukraine.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, speaking in Davos, criticized the slow progress in holding Russia’s leaders to account.