Tribunal to Probe Kiev Regime's Crimes to Be Needed Once Russia's Spec Op Over: Russia's Upper House
© Sputnik . Maria DevakhinaThe building of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Bolshaya Dmitrovka Street in Moscow.
© Sputnik . Maria Devakhina
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Exactly ten years ago, Ukrainian nationalists locked anti-Maidan protesters, who opposed Euromaidan and Ukraine's rapprochement with the European Union, in the Odessa Trade Unions House and set the building on fire. Almost 50 people died, and many others were injured in clashes with the radicals, the United Nations estimated.
The results of Russia's special military operation in Ukraine will require the creation of a large tribunal to collect and investigate all the crimes committed by the Kiev regime, Russian upper house speaker Valentina Matvienko said on Thursday on the 10th anniversary of the 2014 Odessa massacre.
"I am convinced that a large tribunal will be needed as a result of the special military operation. The whole picture of the emergence of Kiev's 'ordinary Nazism,' its path, and all its crimes will be collected and presented there piece by piece. And one of the central, cornerstone episodes of this tribunal should be the indictment of those behind the terrible crime of May 2, 2014, in the Trade Unions House," Matvienko said on Telegram.
She said there would be no statute of limitations, adding that "those responsible for the Odessa tragedy will be named, and they will not escape responsibility."
The inaction of international organizations, which were supposed to force Kiev to investigate the tragedy and punish the perpetrators, will also be assessed, she said, adding that there are "no difficulties" in carrying out an objective investigation as there are a lot of witnesses and footage that captured faces of the perpetrators and their crime.
"There is everything required for a fair verdict to have taken place long ago. It is well known that nothing of the sort has happened. And there is only one explanation here - Kiev's active unwillingness to see justice done to, in fact, the established criminals. I would even call this open, conscious, brazen concealment by Kiev of its Nazi ideological supporters from justice," Matvienko said.
"The fact that, ten years after this heinous, unprecedented in its cruelty in modern history crime in Odessa, there are no results of the investigation, no trial and no one is punished vividly confirms that Nazism is a deep, natural norm for the incumbent Kiev regime. The norm that it considers important and necessary to protect," she added.