In connection with Putin's visit to Turkmenistan scheduled for October 11 to participate in the international forum dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the great Turkmen poet
Magtymguly Pyragy, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine communicates the following.

Ukraine hopes that the leadership of Turkmenistan realizes that Putin is a war criminal for whom an arrest warrant had been issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the unlawful deportation and transfer of Ukrainian children from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation.

This is just one of a whole series of crimes by the Kremlin leadership. Putin and his accomplices are responsible for the crime of aggression against Ukraine, war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, murder, torture, rape, looting, shelling of civilian infrastructure and other atrocities committed by the Russian occupiers on the territory of Ukraine. All of them must be brought to justice for crimes committed against the Ukrainian people.

Right now, the Russian occupiers continue to carry out daily barbaric attacks on Ukrainian cities and villages, causing the destruction of civilian infrastructure and the death of civilians.

We call on all countries that value human life, respect international law and the UN Charter to refrain from holding joint events with the participation of Putin, who had unleashed a war in Europe on a scale not seen since World War II, and whose hands are up to the elbows in blood.

We appeal to all states and the international organizations to make maximum efforts for the effective implementation of the President Zelenskyy Peace Formula as the only effective way to end Russian aggression and restore a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in Ukraine and on the European continent.