Members of European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on the world to increase military assistance to Ukraine against the backdrop of Russian aggression.

The press service of the European Parliament reported about this.

The resolution was supported by 504 MEPs, 26 voted against, and another 36 abstained.

MEPs call for massive increase of military assistance, particularly in areas requested by the Ukrainian government.

The resolution calls on “hesitating” member states to provide their fair share of necessary military assistance, which will help shorten the Russian-Ukrainian war.

In the resolution, MEPs name the results of the sham referenda conducted at gunpoint to annex the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts as “null and void”.

MEPs call on member states and international partners to introduce additional strict sanctions against Russia, to prepare a quick and decisive response if Russia conducts a nuclear strike on Ukraine.

“Any attempt by Russia to present attacks on occupied territories as an attack on Russia itself, and thus as grounds for a nuclear attack, is illegal and baseless and will not deter the European Union from further assistance to Ukraine’s self-defence,” the statement reads.

MEPs condemn the military mobilisation in Russia and measures compelling residents of the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine to serve in Russia’s armed or auxiliary forces, an act which the Fourth Geneva Convention forbids.

MEPs call for the establishment of an ad hoc international tribunal for the crime of aggression against Ukraine, “where Putin and all those Russian civilian and military officials and their proxies responsible for masterminding, launching and conducting the war in Ukraine would be prosecuted”.

Finally, MEPs appealed to the EU member states to strengthen the protection of European critical infrastructure.

Previously, Roberta Metsola, European Parliament speaker, called EU for providing tanks to Ukraine.