Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament, has met with Andrii Kostin, Prosecutor General of Ukraine, in Brussels. They discussed holding Russia accountable for the war and crimes committed.

Metsola points out that the meeting took place in the European Parliament - following their meeting in Lviv earlier in March.

"We agreed on further coordinated efforts. To ensure accountability for every crime committed," Roberta Metsola wrote on Twitter.

We will not rest until Ukraine achieves justice.

Following our meeting in Lviv earlier this month, Ukraine's Prosecutor General @AndriyKostinUa and I today met at @Europarl_EN and agreed on further coordinated efforts.

To ensure accountability for every crime committed. pic.twitter.com/8FrKpFHKtI

— Roberta Metsola (@EP_President) March 22, 2023

As reported, the President of the European Parliament and the Foreign Minister of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba, spoke on phone, discussing the creation of a tribunal regarding the crime of aggression committed by Russia.

Earlier, the Minister of Foreign Affairs reported that the number of countries participating in the group of countries working to establish the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine had increased to 33.

On 2 March last year, the International Criminal Court launched an investigation of possible crimes committed in Ukraine. A joint investigation group was created comprising several European judicial bodies in order to collect evidence of Russia's war crimes in Ukraine.

While the ICC can consider war crimes committed by individuals, it has no jurisdiction to prosecute the crime of aggression. Due to this fact, Ukraine is promoting the idea of establishing a special tribunal against Russia.