242. Kateryna Busol - Getting Justice and Restitution for Russian War Crimes is Important Part of Victory

GUEST: Kateryna Busol - Ukrainian lawyer, Senior lecturer and Robert
Bosch Stiftung fellow at Chatham House.
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Calls to treat as legitimate the ‘security concerns’ raised by Russia,
and to account for these in a future settlement of the war in Ukraine,
disregard the fact that Moscow’s requirements are fundamentally
incompatible with European security. Proponents of a settlement in the
war on Ukraine often put forward the idea that Russian ‘security
concerns’ must be taken into account in any such settlement, but also in
broader revisions to the European security system.

These proposals echo the Russian information campaign over the past 30
years to persuade European publics that there can be ‘no security in
Europe without Russia’. They provide false support to the argument that
Western security policy after the collapse of the USSR unnecessarily
encroached on core Russian interests by expanding NATO and forcing
Moscow to militarize its foreign policy. In this telling, Russia was
merely challenging what it viewed as an unjust European security order.
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SPEAKER:
Kateryna Busol is a Ukrainian lawyer. She is a senior lecturer at the
National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and a fellow at the British
Institute of International and Comparative Law. Kateryna has worked on
various issues relating to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, with a
particular focus on the weaponization of cultural heritage,
conflict-related sexual violence, reparations, and Ukraine’s
transitional justice process. She has worked with the Clooney Foundation
for Justice, UN Women, the Global Survivors Fund and Global Rights
Compliance.

Kateryna has collaborated with Ukrainian NGOs such as the Ukrainian
Helsinki Human Rights Union and Truth Hounds and has advised Ukrainian
prosecutors and judges on war-related proceedings. She was a visiting
researcher at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European
Studies, a Robert Bosch Stiftung fellow at Chatham House, and a visiting
professional at the Office of the Prosecutor of the International
Criminal Court.
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LINKS:
https://www.biicl.org/people/kateryna-busol
https://www.ukma.edu.ua/eng/index.php/studies/departments/faculty-of-law/international-law/staff/61-dr-kateryna-busol
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kateryna-busol-68b4271a9/
https://twitter.com/KaterynaBusol
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SUMMARY:
Moscow’s war of reconquest against Ukraine has confirmed in the most
brutal terms how Russia rejects the values underpinning European
security – the same values agreed between Moscow and the West at the end
of the Cold War. As a revisionist power, Russia has made itself the
primary obstacle to peace and security in Europe and beyond. For
stability to be restored and protected, it is essential that the outcome
of the war in Ukraine leads to a situation in which – in addition to
the expulsion of occupying forces – the exercise of Russian power is
contained rather than encouraged. Over time, Russia’s leadership must
also be persuaded to renounce its expansionist ambitions.

It’s now or never for Ukraine. A protracted or frozen conflict benefits
Russia and hurts Ukraine, as does a ceasefire or negotiated settlement
on Russia’s terms. If Ukraine is to avoid these outcomes and turn
tenacious defence and incremental battlefield gains into outright
victory, it needs far more ambitious international military assistance
than it has received to date. This report presents the case for an
immediate and decisive increase in such support, seeks to dispel
overhyped concerns about provoking Russia, and counsels against
accommodating Moscow’s demands.
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