The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has approved a report and a resolution entitled "Sexual violence in times of conflict", devoted, among other things, to Russian aggression against Ukraine.

A correspondent of "European Pravda" reports about it from Strasbourg.

The document, prepared by Austrian MP Petra Bair, had only passing references to Russian aggression, but it was significantly amended by Ukrainian MPs and parliamentarians from partner states.

Amendment 4, which changed the description of the situation in Europe, caused the greatest controversy. Instead of the blurred and factually incorrect phrase "in 2022, the war returned to our continent," the MPs proposed: "Since February 2014, the Russian Federation has been waging an aggressive war against Ukraine, which it resumed on February 24, 2022 with a massive invasion of Ukraine."

The speaker and the profile committee on equality spoke against it. Petra Bair and other MPs insisted that "armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine began in 2022." However, Ukrainian parliamentarians managed to convince the MEPs of the opposite. The amendment was approved by a narrow margin: 47 for, 43 against.

As a result, the resolution with this norm was approved unanimously: 126 MEPs voted for it.