DEUTSCH  FRANÇAIS  ESPAÑOL ITALIANO NORSK SVENSKA УКРАЇНСЬКА 

To: The European Commission, the governments of European Union Member States, Norway and the United Kingdom

After US president Trump’s “summits” with Putin (August 15) and European leaders (August 18) Ukraine confronts the appalling prospect of an unjust “peace” settlement that rewards the Russian aggressor.

UPDATE (November 22): Trump's November 21 threat to cut off support to Ukraine if it does not accept the capitulations contained in his 28-point "peace plan" worked out with the Kremlin behind the back of Ukraine (and Europe) brings this nightmarish prospect to the brink of being realised.

If this deal is forced on Ukraine, it will legitimise:

• The violent Russian occupation of a fifth of Ukrainian territory and the swap to Russia of territory and people presently under Ukrainian administration
• The destruction of Ukraine’s towns, schools, hospitals, infrastructure, environment and heritage
• The murder of tens of thousands of Ukrainian citizens and the kidnapping of thousands of Ukrainian children, and
• The genocidal Russification of the occupied territories, and a host of other war crimes. 

It will also place the burden of ending the war not on aggressor Russia but on Ukraine, its victim–even as the Putin regime steps up its bombardments of Ukraine’s cities and infrastructure.

We, the undersigned, therefore call on the European Union, the governments of its member states and of Norway and the United Kingdom to give full, unconditional support to Ukraine by immediately:

• Implementing full and rapid arming of Ukraine, in part sourced from a ban on arming aggressor states like Israel and Saudi Arabia.
• Helping Ukraine develop its own defence industry and find reliable non-US suppliers of equipment it still cannot manufacture.
• Cancelling (and not just suspending repayment of) the Ukrainian state’s foreign debts
• Transferring frozen Russian assets to Ukraine.
• Tightening sanctions on Putin’s regime and its supporting oligarchs, especially in banking and real estate.
• Shortening the European Union’s timetable for eliminating its dependence on Russian fossil fuels exports and imposing severe sanctions on firms that participate in this trade.
• Strengthening the European and global efforts for the safe return of all the kidnapped Ukrainian children, for the liberation and safe return of all Ukrainian civilian prisoners and the exchange of Prisoners of War
• Rigorously prosecuting Russian war crimes.
• Supporting Russian anti-war movements and anti-war activists imprisoned in the Russian Federation and the occupied territories.

LEAD SIGNATORIES

Tanya Vyhovsky, Senator for the Vermont Progressive Party, Vermont State Senate (US)
Christopher Ford, Secretary, Ukraine Solidarity Campaign (England and Wales)
Peter Cooper, Secretary, Ukraine Solidarity Campaign Scotland
Julie Ward, former Member of the European Parliament, Labour Party (UK)
Graham Campbell, Glasgow City Councilor for the Scottish National Party (Scotland)
Simon Pirani, Honorary Professor, University of Durham (UK)
Bernard Dreano, Chairperson of the Centre of International Solidarity Studies and Initiatives (France)
Carmen Claudin, Senior Researcher, Barcelona Institute of International Affairs (Spanish State)
Szymon Martys, Interim Coordinator, European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine (Poland)
Alfons Bech, Trade Union Coordinator, European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine (Spanish State)
Howie Hawkins, Ukraine Solidarity Network (US)
Sacha Ismail, Trade Union Liaison Officer, Ukraine Solidarity Campaign (England and Wales)
Maryann Abbs, Ukraine solidarity and climate justice activist (Canada)
Serhiy Kasianov, Board Member , Harvard Aerospace and Defense Alumni Organisation, Professional Government Association of Ukraine
Dr James Doughney, Emeritus Professor, Victoria University, Melbourne (Australia)
Thomas Weyts, Coordinator, Belgian Committee of the European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine 
David Acosta Guillerm, District councillor, Gràcia, Barcelona, for Barcelona en Comú (Spanish State)
Oksana Kozlova, Lecturer, School of Translation and Interpreting, Brussels Free University, European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine (Belgium)
John Andersson, Coordinator, Ukraine-Solidarity (Sweden)
John Meehan, Coordinator, Irish Left With Ukraine
Serhiy Onyshchenko, father, Ukrainian, Engineering Fellow at Exalate (Belgium)
Carme Sansa Albert, Catalan actor (Spanish State)
Frank Fourneau, Support Fund for Ukraine and Heart4Ukraine (Belgium)
Daniel Tanuro, ecosocialist writer and member of the Fourth International (Belgium)
Christian Zeller, Professor of Economic Geography, Editor, emanzipation - Zeitschrift für ökosozialistische Strategie (Austria).
Gauche anticapitaliste / SAP-Antikapitalisten (Belgium)
New Anticapitalist Party (France)
La Aurora (Marxist organisation (Spain)

Petition initiated by the European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine (ENSU).
For ENSU’s full position on “peace” negotiations see this statement.
For a full statement of the ENSU position on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and how to counter it see the Brussels Declaration.

JOIN YOUR LOCAL ENSU AFFILIATE
HELP BUILD SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF UKRAINE

Contacts

Belgium: Solidarité Ukraine Belgique

Canada: Canadian Alliance for Solidarity with Ukraine
                 Alliance Canadienne pour la Solidarité avec l'Ukraine 

                 Ukraine Solidarity Information

England and Wales:  Ukraine Solidarity Campaign

France: Comité français du réseau européen de solidarité avec l' Ukraine 

Germany: Right to Resist—Linke Ukraine-Solidarität Berlin

Ireland: Irish Left With Ukraine

Italy: Sinistra per l’Ucraina

Norway: ‘We who support the new left in Ukraine’ (short form VSU - VenstreSida i Ukraina )

Scotland: Ukraine Solidarity Campaign

Sweden: Ukraina-Solidaritet

Switzerland: Comité Ukraine-Suisse

United States: Ukraine Solidarity Network