European Parliament: No peace without accountability, full reparations from Russia

The European Parliament has adopted a resolution outlining the conditions it believes are essential for any future peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia, stressing that such a deal must provide Ukraine with security guarantees equivalent to NATO’s Article 5 and ensure full accountability for aggression and war crimes.

The resolution, approved on November 27 in Strasbourg, states that a durable peace must include credible security assurances comparable to NATO’s mutual-defence clause and the EU’s Article 42(7), while preventing a repeat of the ineffective 1994 Budapest Memorandum. Parliamentarians underlined that Ukraine must retain the sovereign right to choose its own political and security alliances without external interference, Caliber.Az reoports via Ukrainian media. 

MEPs also reaffirmed that the EU and its member states will never recognise Russia’s occupation of Ukrainian territory and insisted that a ceasefire would need to precede any broader peace arrangement.

The European Parliament stressed that peace cannot come at the cost of concessions to the aggressor. Lawmakers argued that Russia must be required to fully compensate Ukraine for material and non-material losses caused by its invasion.

They also insisted on comprehensive accountability under international law for all crimes committed by Russia, its allies, and associated forces, including prosecution before the International Criminal Court and a special tribunal for the crime of aggression.

In addition, the resolution urges EU governments to swiftly adopt a legally and financially secure mechanism for providing Ukraine with a “reparation loan,” backed by frozen Russian assets.

The vote came as the European Parliament questioned what it described as an increasingly uncertain US stance on Ukraine. Two days earlier, US President Donald Trump had announced that he had instructed Steve Witkoff and Dan Driscoll to finalise a draft peace proposal for the Russia-Ukraine conflict. 

By Sabina Mammadli