Documents
Founding legal instruments of the Special Tribunal
- Agreement between the Council of Europe and Ukraine on the Establishment of the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine (also in Ukrainian and French)
- Resolution CM/Res(2026)5 establishing the Enlarged Partial Agreement on the Management Committee of the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine
Decisions adopted by the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers
- CM/Del/Dec(2025)1532/2.3 - Consequences of the Aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine - Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine;
- CM/Del/Dec(2025)1530/1.6 - 134th Session of the Committee of Ministers (Luxembourg, 13-14 May 2025) – Follow-up
- CM/Del/Dec(2024)1497/10.2 - Core Group on the establishment of a Special Tribunal for the Crime of aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine - Preparation of the next meeting
- CM/Del/Dec(2026)1548/2.3a - Consequences of the aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine - a. Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine
Texts adopted by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
- Resolution Res. 2598 (2025) and Recommendation Rec. 2294 (2025) on Russian war of aggression against Ukraine: the need to ensure accountability and avoid impunity
- Opinion 300 (2022) on the Consequences of the Russian Federation's aggression against Ukraine
Declarations and statements
- Fourth Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Council of Europe, Reykjavík, 16-17 May 2023: Reykjavík Declaration - United around our values | Website
- Declaration of the Ministers of Justice of the Council of Europe on the Occasion of the Informal Conference “Towards Accountability for International Crimes Committed in Ukraine”, Vilnius, 5 September 2024
- Vienna-Riga Statement of the Core Group on the Establishment of the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine, Riga, 22 November 2024;
- Joint Statement of the Foreign Ministers Meeting of the Core Group on the Establishment of a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine ("Lviv Statement"), 9 May 2025
Other documents
- Letter from the Dutch Government on hosting the first phases of the Special Tribunal, 28 October 2025 (Available in Dutch only)