“Any such initiatives in the General Assembly would be completely null and void from a legal point of view, because the General Assembly does not have such powers,” Polyansky said on the air of the RT television channel.
According to him, this idea is exploited in the West for political and populist purposes.
In December, the head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrell, said that there was a debate in the European Union about whether a separate tribunal for Ukraine was needed, discussions of this topic had not yet brought concrete results.
In turn, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin said that the European Union is trying to hide its involvement in war crimes in Ukraine by initiating a pseudo-tribunal.